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The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey See book keywords and concepts

As drug profits skyrocketed, so also did injuries and deaths suffered from abusing these drugs. There was a 1000% increase in these reported for Ritalin alone in children aged 10 to 14. According to Mr. Haslip, "This now equals or exceeds reports for the same age group involving cocaine." As a physician and father, I became increasingly disturbed as the numbers of children labeled ADHD skyrocketed.

Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind Henry Hobhouse See book keywords and concepts

This is because a large proportion of the money being laundered worldwide comes from drug profits. The other compelling reason is that making hard drugs legal would reduce crime by more than 50 percent in some cities. Many policemen would endorse this approach. At wholesale prices, the world drug trade is said by the U.N. to be worth more than $500 billion a year, second only to crude oil in World Trade and about equal to the legal GNP. of (say) the U.K. or Italy.

Hey, medheads! Here's the new language of the medication population (satire) Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

Drug companies need billions of dollars in drug profits to find the cure for cancer! Evidence-based medicine is credible! These are the type of headlines constructed by news repeaters. Fictitious disease - A fabricated disease invented for the sole purpose of creating a new market for patented drugs. ADHD is the prime example of a fictitious disease, and the psychiatric community is now well-practiced at labeling human behaviors "brain chemistry imbalances that need to be treated with chemicals.

The raw (and ugly) truth about the war on drugs Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

At the same time, I'm not at all fooled by this silly "War on Drugs" charade, which is really nothing more than enforcement of corporate drug profits at gunpoint. If we had a genuine war on drugs in this country that really worked to protect the American people we'd send DEA agents into drug company offices and confiscate all the legalized but deadly medications being manufactured, distributed and deceptively sold to unwitting Americans today. Medical marijuana is a threat to both the profits and power of drug companies, not to mention the credibility of the DEA.

Natural Health Solutions Mike Adams See book keywords and concepts

The FDA continues to fully support the practice, not surprisingly, as it has now become the primarily gatekeeper through which drug profits are generated. Without the brand pushing, disease mongering, and fraudulent health claims made in such advertising, most consumers would never be interested in the drugs. Today, direct-to-consumer advertising has become an embarrassment to the scientific community and one of the greatest examples of the Big Pharma / FDA conspiracy designed to exploit the public for maximum profits, regardless of who is harmed in the process. See www.StopDrugAds.

Disease mongering: Convincing someone to take a dangerous medicine for a normal condition to create more drug profits. Disease mongering is also founded on the idea that diseases are complex and mysterious, and that finding cures will take billions of dollars and decades of research. In reality, most health conditions have simple underlying causes that are inexpensive to prevent or treat using natural health strategies (see the second half of this book).

The Big Fix: How the Pharmaceutical Industry Rips Off American Consumers Katharine Greider See book keywords and concepts

Our "free pricing," vast population, and sky's-the-limit demand are what drives drug profits worldwide. But even this basic fact creates occasion for dispute. Whereas many consumer groups and politicians say it's our prices that are out of whack, industry supporters insist that other wealthy consumers—the Europeans and the Japanese, for example—should pay more for drugs and that their refusal to do so, unfair as it is, leaves the responsibility for R&D in American hands.

When Healing Becomes A Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies Kenny Ausubel See book keywords and concepts

Simultaneously, drug profits are growing at double-digit rates, with companies reporting increases ranging from 13 to 35 percent a year.31 For 1997, Bristol-Myers Squibb, the dominant player in cancer chemotherapy drugs, reported earnings of $92 7 million.32 Since Taxol's approval in 1992, the drug has generated $3 billion in revenues, about 40 percent of the company's total sales.33 Meanwhile, hospitals compete furiously to enroll cancer patients. As Dr. Michael Gruber of the New York University Medical Center commented, "Cancer is to the 1990s what heart disease was to the 1970s.

Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom Richard Leviton See book keywords and concepts

It's not as if the exceptionally high drug profits are making life any easier for the sick. Patients pay exorbitantly for these "modern medical miracles." For example: a diabetic woman's monthly drug cost is $150; a heart transplant patient shells out $50 a day for anti-rejection pills; a Gaucher's disease patient needs $270,000 a year to pay for his drugs. Herbs are mostly unpatentable and thus unprofitable, so it's easier for drug companies to suppress rather than support them.

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