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Health roundup: Herb bashing, black box warnings and Honey Nut Cheerios (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Not everyone knows what the "black box" refers to in these black box warnings, by the way. The answer is that the black box is a COFFIN. Better yet, it's the coffin in which you may find yourself if you continue to take drugs with black box warnings. There is no drug too dangerous for humans that it can't be excused by the FDA with a black box warning. This warning is the FDA's sneaky mechanism for allowing extremely dangerous (even deadly) drugs to stay on the market, earning billions in profits for Big Pharma while killing nearly 100,000 Americans each year.

An FDA panel has voted, with a slim margin, to require "black box warnings" on ADHD drugs following the deaths of hundreds of people who were taking them. If these drugs had been a Chinese herb, of course, the FDA would right now be issuing a nationwide ban and confiscating millions of dollars in inventory at health food stores all around the country. But since it's a highly-profitable class of prescription drugs, the agency is resorting to warnings that are routinely ignored by doctors and patients alike.

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One of every five drugs introduced to the market between 1975 and 2000 was taken off the market, or had to have so-called black box warnings, because of safety concerns.44 ("Black box warnings," so called because the warning is printed inside a black frame on the package, indicate that the drug may have serious and even life-threatening effects. They are the most serious admonitions that the FDA places on the labels of prescription medications.) "We have been dependent on the pharmaceutical industry to provide the answers," said Dr.

The FDA, Vioxx, and crimes against humanity Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

So even though the whole class of drugs is extremely dangerous compared to herbal remedies or even relatively safe painkillers, some doctors want these black box warnings removed on the basis that, within this class of drugs, each one carries the same risk as the next. This is the kind of huge distortion of logic that you see in conventional medicine today. Obviously, these doctors are on the payroll of the drug companies that stand to benefit from the removal of these black box warnings. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out.

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All dictionaries will now, by law, carry black box warnings telling readers not to trust what they read in those dictionaries. The FDA is the final authority over all language and will likely even change its name to the FDLA (the Food, Drug and Language Administration). Please note these new definitions Consumers are warned to avoid using all words until they know their new definitions, which have been announced by the FDA as follows: "HEALTH" shall mean death, as in "Health care" (death care).

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All of these drugs carry black box warnings to alert MD's about the dangers of diabetes. All these drugs would in all likelihood push down magnesium serum levels. Do not, and I scream, do not trust psychologists, psychiatrists and the current drug-pushing culture of education. Dr. Julian Whitaker There is an international explosion of legal child drugging as parents, educators and politicians en masse have been thoroughly duped into believing that only by continuous heavy drugging from a very early age can the "afflicted" child possibly make it through life's worst challenges.

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It takes years before a dangerous drug receives "black box warnings" that alert the public about adverse side effects or it is taken off the market altogether, either voluntarily by the drug manufacturer, or under extreme pressure from the public or the FDA. Either way, it is always after the drug's harmful effects have taken a toll on unsuspecting people like you and me. When you read about a drug being pulled, the position of the FDA and pharmaceutical companies is that the number of drugs on the market compared to the number that are recalled is a very small percentage.

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Unfortunately, it took the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) until 2005 to require drug companies to add black box warnings to antidepressant labels about the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children and adolescents, and until 2007 to extend that warning to young adults aged eighteen to twenty-four. The Promise of Orthomolecular Psychiatry and Psychoimmunology ¦¦? Despite the forces defending the medical status quo, change is happening. There are some physicians—albeit a relative handful out of the 700,000 in the US—who are using the therapies referred to in this book.

In addition, there is the FDA's 2005 requirement for drug companies to add black box warnings to antidepressant labels about the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior in children and adolescents, as well as its 2007 extension of that warning to young adults. According to Dr. Goldwag, "There are many, many things that individuals with depression can do to help themselves. What we want to ask is, what can we do nutritionally and in other ways? What lifestyle factors are under our own control that we can manipulate in order to alleviate symptoms of depression or prevent them?

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Insert your life savings (or a credit card with a huge credit limit), press the button for your "disease" or condition, and it dispenses drugs along with FDA black box warnings that are ignored by everyone. Through this vending machine concept, drug companies could actually bypass both doctors and pharmacists, distributing pharmaceuticals directly to patients who have been motivated to purchase them by watching highly deceptive drug advertisements. It's a brilliant way to greatly expand the sales of pharmaceuticals, regardless of who gets hurt in the process.

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Obviously, these doctors are on the payroll of the drug companies that stand to benefit from the removal of these black box warnings. It doesn't take a genius to figure this out. Just to give you an example of how silly this notion is, it would be similar to discovering that a certain type of airplane was falling out of the sky at a rate that was 1200 percent higher than other types of airplanes and killing tens of thousands of Americans as a result. Then you discover that there were two or three airplanes of a similar type that also fell out of the sky at the same rate.

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This was followed up in October 2004 when the FDA "requested" black box warnings be added to the labels of antidepressants for prescribing to the adolescent population in the U.S. because of a risk of suicidal ideation. In February 2005, Health Canada, the Canadian equivalent of the FDA, announced that it was withdrawing the ADHD "treatment" Adderall from its market due to "safety information concerning the association of sudden deaths, heart-related deaths and strokes in children and adults taking the usual recommended doses of Adderall and Adderall XR.

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As with contraindications, there are circumstances in which black box warnings may be reasonably disregarded by your doctor, after a careful assessment of the possible risks and benefits. However, even though the addition of a black box to an insert is often heralded by letters to physicians and coverage in the professional and lay press, don't assume that the news got to your doctor. If you are being told to take something that contradicts the caution in the black box, ask your doctor why this is so.

Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives American Medical Publishing See book keywords and concepts

The advocacy group wants statin labels to include black box warnings — which are reserved for drugs with unusually serious side effects. This would be an elevated warning from the current cautionary information about the risk of rhabdomylosis, the breakdown of muscle tissue that is a rare side effect of statins. The disease initially causes muscle pain and tiredness. In severe cases it can lead to kidney failure and death. The Public Citizen group also wants drug companies that make statins to be required to send letter to all U.S. doctors warning about the drug's risks.

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