Posted on 11/06/2013 6:20:51 AM PST by sdnet
Medications approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration result in 100,000 deaths every year from what the federal agency describes as “Adverse Drug Reactions”, or ADRs. Worse, over 2 million Americans suffer non-deadly adverse reactions to drugs every year that the FDA has approved “safe”.
ADRs refer to negative reactions that Americans suffer from taking drugs as directed by their doctor or the drug’s manufacturer. These cases DO NOT include overdoses or drug abuse.
In fact, the FDA claims that adverse drug reactions account for the 4th leading cause of death “ahead of pulmonary disease, diabetes, AIDS, pneumonia, accidents and automobile deaths”. Who is the FDA truly protecting, and what responsibility does the FDA accept in the number of deaths that result from its approved drugs? These deaths give the phrase “FDA Warning” a whole new meaning.
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How many people are alive due to the use of FDA approved drugs?
My mother ended up in the ICU and hospital due to drug reactions and stupid doctors not knowing what others doctors had prescribed! I had to tell them what was wrong after I read about their contraindications in a PDR!
I know several people who are on more than 10 drugs at the same time.
What does that have to do with this article? THey are totally screwing up here! Approving crap that should not ever be approved. As well as multitudes of mental narcotic drugs that only mask over spiritual problems and help to create more problems! The profit motive is way way too important in healthcare and medicine. Profit is good, but when you have that as the motive in medicine, it ends up like this story reveals.
What does that have to do with this article? THey are totally screwing up here! Approving crap that should not ever be approved. As well as multitudes of mental narcotic drugs that only mask over spiritual problems and help to create more problems! The profit motive is way way too important in healthcare and medicine. Profit is good, but when you have that as the motive in medicine, it ends up like this story reveals.
More people die from malpractice than from guns.
...too many drugs ping....
Per Ebenezer Scrooge, they are reducing the surplus population.
I am more interested in how many people have suffered/ died due to FDA not approving drugs... or not approving them in a timely fashion.
That’s a better question. The adverse event data is mostly garbage data. It’s user entered and there’s no verification that it’s true.
I get that this is a journalist from the ‘good team’ but it’s still a drive by headline with no honest thought put into it.
Get rid of the FDA and this won’t be a problem.
most all of these mass shootings are done by people that either are on or have stopping takings their mental meds!
Well, I'm convinced! So which is it that makes them shoot up people? Being on their meds, or being off their meds?
It would be quitting them, obviously. Or failure to get them. They are godsends for sanity maintenance purposes when chosen well (out of many dozens of possibilities today), but they don’t cure the problem.
The spiritual problem happens when the person never looks further than the medications. Medications are neutral things; they can be used for good or ill. I take the opposite approach: the choice of a medication should be that of the doctor, but with the patient having the right of final refusal. And doctors should have skin in the game, and people should be careful to choose doctors of good repute.
If someone’s that genuinely risky then that someone should be followed up on closely if not kept in the proverbial insane asylum. A more sincerely Christian society would have better answers to such situations which would embrace both spiritual and medical worlds. Everything that is not in itself sin can have a good use.
The problem is that the meds only magnify over time, very real spiritual problems. Therefore, when off or sometimes even on,those demons will talk to the person and get them to act out their will...the will to try and get people into hell.
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