Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Some people think that only illegal drugs are habit-forming. Yet legal drugs can be just as addictive as illegal drugs. Just ask anyone who has tried to quit smoking, go off caffeine, or kick to Oxycontin habit.
So is there some other difference between illegal drugs and legal drugs? People argue that legal drugs are safe. They're FDA-approved! And yet they fail to recognize that prescription drugs kill more Americans each year than all the crack, meth, and heroin deaths combined. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 People carry within their bodies a chemical cocktail of industrial chemicals, pesticides, food additives, heavy metals, and the residues of conventional pharmaceutical drugs, as well as legal drugs like alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine and illegal drugs such as marijuana, amphetamines, cocaine, and heroin.
Today people are exposed to chemicals in far greater concentrations than previous generations were. For example, over 158 million Americans live in areas that exceed smog standards.1 It's estimated that 20% of the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| People argue that legal drugs are safe. They're FDA-approved! And yet they fail to recognize that prescription drugs kill more Americans each year than all the crack, meth, and heroin deaths combined.
Okay, then, what about the argument that illegal drugs have no medicinal purpose, and legal drugs do have a medicinal purpose. What about that? Wrong again. Medical marijuana is a medically proven treatment for a variety of conditions, yet marijuana still remains illegal. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Some legal drugs are lethal. Some legal drugs produce long-term degradation of the human body. Some drugs that promise to ameliorate pain and suffering are worthless. When the pharmaceutical corporations that manufacture any of these kinds of drugs KNOW the deficiencies of their products, shouldn't they be held accountable for the U.S. version of home-grown terrorism?
When corporate business plans' lowest common denominator is greed, the criterion shaping the pharmaceutical industry's conduct becomes "don't kill the client, just keep him/her chronically ill. |
Stephen Fried
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 The one with legal drugs.
Since that day in the emergency room, I have been on a quest. An investigative journalist and exasperated husband, I am trying to find out if my wife was the victim of a pharmacological foul-up or just a statistically acceptable casualty of "friendly fire" in the war on disease. I am also trying to find meaning in our experience, a married couple searching for each other through a medical emergency that never seems to end, the siren never completely quieted. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 But the fact is that the rise of senseless violence among white children and young adults is directly connected to drugs, only they are legal drugs."
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Patient Story: ADHD_
Timothy is five years old. Since his birth, I've been trying to find out what was wrong with him. It s really been a personal battle. Many people looked at me cross-eyed and said that he is a normal little boy, he is just growing, or he is immature, or it is my fault because I don't discipline him properly. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| And finally, if you are caught purchasing and using legal drugs that lack FDA approval, you will be thrown in jail. With the addition of some jackboots and helmets, the FDA should be able to serve quite nicely as the enforcement arm of the pharmaceutical empire.
Individual rights, consumer rights, human rights have all been abrogated in favor of corporate profitability and deniability. The FDA is empowering its criminal bosses— pharmaceutical corporations. If the bosses steal...or rape...or kill, the enabler cannot remain blameless. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Canada, searching the elderly for legal drugs. The FDA has gone to great lengths to pressure U.S. customs to seize pharmaceutical shipments being imported for sale to individual consumers in the United States, and it has even invoked the fantasy-based fear tactic of suggesting that terrorists might adulterate pharmaceuticals coming to the U.S. from Canada (and therefore we should all buy our drugs only from U.S. monopoly-controlled pharmacies because of "terrorists"). |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| The outcomes of their use of legal drugs amount to crimes against individual citizens.
All of these personal accounts (and an ever-growing number of similar stories) are considered anecdotal information by the CDC, the FDA, the ADA, the NIH, and the insulin industry (a legal drug cartel). That means MDs, researchers, pharmaceutical personnel, and "professionals" did not observe or become involved in interpreting the results. As this mystery unfolds it will become very clear that crimes have been committed by the pharmaceutical corporations for profit. |
| Recommended Reading
• Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of legal drugs (1999) by Stephen M. Fried
• Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, the Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle Over Fen-Phen (2001) by Alicia Mundy
• Prescription for Profits: How the Pharmaceutical Industry
Bankrolled the Unholy Marriage Between Science and Business (1997) by Linda Marsa
• Prescription for Disaster: The Hidden Dangers in Your Medicine Cabinet (1998) by Thomas J. Moore
• The Coming Plague (1995) by Laurie Garrett
• Confessions of a Medical Heretic (1990) by Robert S. |
Stephen Fried
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| The FDA advisory committee is the Supreme Court of legal drugs. Each division of the agency has a standing tribunal of experts who rule on controversial issues concerning approvals and relabelings. The Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee could force Floxin's manufacturer to specifically study who was at risk and why. Then the firm would have to alert doctors about which patients should not be given the drug— unless it was the only choice in a life-threatening situation and the benefits outweighed the specific risks. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Some legal drugs produce long-term degradation of the human body. Some drugs that promise to ameliorate pain and suffering are worthless. When the pharmaceutical corporations that manufacture any of these kinds of drugs KNOW the deficiencies of their products, shouldn't they be held accountable for the U.S. version of home-grown terrorism?
When corporate business plans' lowest common denominator is greed, the criterion shaping the pharmaceutical industry's conduct becomes "don't kill the client, just keep him/her chronically ill. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Okay, then, what about the argument that illegal drugs have no medicinal purpose, and legal drugs do have a medicinal purpose. What about that? Wrong again. Medical marijuana is a medically proven treatment for a variety of conditions, yet marijuana still remains illegal. Even MDMA (now called "Ecstasy" on the street) was long considered an effective "experiential drug" that helped severely traumatized adult patients overcome past pains through improved clarity. At the same time, tobacco smoke has no medical purpose whatsoever, yet cigarettes remain perfectly legal. |
Stephen Fried
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| As I carried Michael's casket to his grave, I couldn't pretend that I didn't lay some of the blame for his death on the dangers of legal drugs. He had migraines, for which he took too many painkillers. Several years before his death, Michael had had an operation on his stomach, and it was bleeding from his stomach that eventually killed him. I couldn't help but wonder if the damage hadn't been caused by some of his prescription drugs—the pain pills he took can gnaw away at the stomach lining. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Let me show you just how addictive these beverages (or legal drugs I say) really can be in your body.
A Drug Addiction Story
Instead of going to a drug dealer, a young child gets his drug from his parents, friends, and his school multiple times every day. He is innocent and does not even realize he has a tragic addiction to a powerful drug. This drug is not only legal; it is freely available to him almost anytime he craves it. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| It eliminates patient dependence on a continuous supply of legal drugs. Those who think greedy pharmaceutical corporations can afford to be a part of the cure need to re-examine the principles of a market-based economy. When corporations take advantage of sick and/or dying patients for profit, is it even possible to believe that an altruistic search for a cure could override the need for profit and the power it buys!
How Would You Like to be a Diabetic?
Dear juror, this chapter has not presented another suspect for your consideration. Rather, it has offered tools to assist you ... |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 My goal is to highlight the dangers of legal drugs and bring awareness about disease prevention so that you can avoid taking drugs unless absolutely necessary. If we focus on prevention we can avert many illnesses altogether. But our lifestyle choices of consumption and addiction lead us directly to ill health.
We live in a society of convenience and instant gratification. Our inability to live a healthy and balanced lifestyle causes us to gain weight and feel lousy. We then look for quick-fix solutions. The failure of most of these solutions leaves us vulnerable to increased health problems. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The morphine-type compounds these legal drugs contain can also lead to serious, life-altering addictions. When the famous radio host, Rush Limbaugh, announced on his radio program that he was addicted to pain medication, his life was in shambles. But he is not alone in this. There are millions of people who initially started off by taking an "innocent" Advil for the occasional headache, but ended up being unable to live without strong painkillers. Once you start using dehydrating medications like these, you will mostly likely develop the same kind or even worse pain over and over again. |
Stephen Fried
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| He had started out just as I had, a curious layperson trying to navigate the confusing world of legal drugs. The difference was, he had access to a small army of angry patients who would publicly protest to the bitter end even the slightest injustice he uncovered.
I was experiencing a very common phenomenon in any field associated with medicine: AIDS envy. The AIDS activists have been so much more effective at raising funds and public awareness than anyone else that you often hear people grumbling jealously at their remarkable success. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The right drugs. The legal drugs. The drugs that make money for drug companies, drug distributors, drug retailers, cities, states and countries. It's enforcement at gunpoint, and as long as the money keeps flowing, the drugs will stay perfectly legal, regardless of who dies.
The entire distribution system is well in place: the false and misleading television advertising, the outright bribery of drug dealers (doctors), the street corner fulfillment centers (pharmacies), and the coordinating drug lord running the show (the Fraud and Drug Administration). |
Mike Adams
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 They were buying 100% legal drugs in Canada and being treated like common criminals by U.S. health authorities for daring to go outside the monopoly drug racket operated in the United States and protected by the FDA. This event only became public after Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., complained to the FDA. He asked, "Is it the beginning of a new practice of harassment and intimidation against elderly citizens who are traveling to Canada to make their prescription drug purchases?"
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Officers, www.CBD. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 GNP) went to buy legal drugs; in 1986,31 billion dollars (11 % ofthe GNP) were spent on prescription drugs; in 1992 about 100 billion dollars were extracted from the population for patented controlled drugs: yet Americans have never been sicker, or threatened with such high so-called "health care" costs, only to rank 19th worldwide in actual statistical health. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Bitter Pills: Inside the Hazardous World of legal drugs, by Stephen Fried
According to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), adverse drug reactions are the fourth-leading cause of death in America. Reactions to prescription and over-the-counter medications kill far more people annually than all illegal drug use combined. A work of investigative and personal journalism ... the book is meant to help reform the system and inform your choices when using medications ... Available through your local bookseller or the publisher, Bantam Books, at www.bantam. |
Stephen Fried
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| America, and possibly as high as the third—behind only heart disease and cancer. Of course, many people take many medications without experiencing such problems, which are referred to as "adverse drug reactions" in the United States, "medication misadventures" in the U.K. and "drug-induced sufferings" in Japan. But according to studies in the journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), as many as 11 percent of all hospital admissions are the result of adverse drug reactions, or ADRs, as they are often called. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| Technology is constantly improving and as medicine has advanced, we have become a nation of addicts. For every symptom (real or imagined) that we have there is a drug to treat it. But do drugs really fix the problem or is the proliferation of prescription drugs a part of a larger dilemma? Is it possible that people are now looking to their physician's prescription pad as the answer to their health problems, as opposed to seeking and living healthy lifestyles? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Those legal drugs are different from marijuana. They're FDA-approved drugs, prescribed by a doctor. They have a medical purpose.
Oh really? Ritalin has a medical purpose? What medical symptoms does Ritalin treat, then? What measurable physiological state is addressed with Ritalin? There are none, of course. Ritalin is an authority drug. It keeps children in line. It makes teachers feel less stress and parents feel less guilt. Ritalin is a mind-altering narcotic, and yet millions of children are on it today. |
Stephen Fried
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| Because Oprah is shown in England, too, there were outraged British patients who sent copies of the letters they had been writing to their own government and regulatory officials.
And I was still hearing from that doctor who diagnosed Diane with TMJ based on her eye position during her earlier TV appearance. He wanted to know when we would be returning his promotional videotape.
I wasn't looking for any of this to suck me back into writing about the drug industry again. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 It is the liver's job to filter out and break down any "poison" such as alcohol and illegal or legal drugs. Hence, regular intake of any of these has the potential to harm the liver and to a lesser extent, the kidneys, the body's other filter.) But the warnings about Serzone were particularly clear. The same year Serzone was approved the first of several studies appeared in the medical literature which would voice concern about Serzone's effect on the liver. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Senior citizens returning from Canada were also detained and searched for legal drugs that they purchased at discounts across the Canadian border. Again and again, the FDA and the quack promoters of conventional medicine resort to the use of firearms (or the threat of using them) to enforce our modern system of monopoly medicine. It is exactly as if conventional medicine had declared war on the American people.
Some of the more recent examples of Gunpoint Medicine in the U.S. |
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