All posts tagged with prescription medication
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-(Natural News) If there’s one thing we all know by now, it’s that food really is medicine. What you put into your body has perhaps the most profound impact on your overall health; there’s little dispute about the negative consequences of a bad diet. But when it comes to the good things a healthy diet […]
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-(Natural News) A comprehensive study validates the impact opioid abuse has on our country, with results suggesting that from 2009 to 2015, overdose-related ICU admissions increased by 34 percent and the cost per ICU admission rose by 58 percent. During the same period, the number of opioid deaths within the ICU nearly doubled. Researchers from […]
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-(Natural News) The pharmaceutical industry practically runs the mainstream media and dictates the behavior of most journalists, commentators, and talking heads. Direct to consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals topped $5.6 billion in 2016, solidifying Big Pharma’s influence over the networks. The very existence of these mainstream media networks hinges on their loyalty to carry out the […]
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-(Natural News) All indications point to Amazon.com expanding its business to include the sale of prescription pharmaceuticals in the near future, and it’s hardly surprising that they would want to move in that direction. After all, the sale of pharmaceuticals is big business. In 2016, worldwide drug sales reached an all-time high of 967 billion […]
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-(Natural News) City lawyers in Everett, Washington are preparing to sue the makers of OxyContin, a leading opioid painkiller, blaming it for its role in the United States’ opioid and heroin epidemic. The city filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma claiming they knew the drug was being illegally trafficked to residents and did not act […]
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-(Natural News) Is a legal drug epidemic plaguing our nation? According to a new study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, it seems that Americans have become increasingly dependent on pharmaceuticals. In 2013, about one in six American adults reported taking at least one psychiatric drug, usually an antidepressant, sedative or antipsychotic, to cope […]
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