Jun
11
How Safe Are Our Prescription Drugs
Filed Under Healthy Living
The pharmaceutical drug industry is the most profitable business on the planet. In fact, it is an industry so profitable, they are able to spend $16 Billion (Billion with a B) on advertising each year.
Yes, there are times when the drugs that they produce save lives. I am not disputing that. However, most of the drugs they produce and market have nothing to do with saving lives; they are symptom cover ups and quick fixes for things that healthy living and a positive attitude would correct. It’s a branch of legal drug trade that I have a problem with. We now have 1 in 6 adults in this country on Prozac or a similar “lifestyle” drugs, we have nearly 8 million children on Ritalin, we have antibiotics that are over prescribed by at least 50%, and the list goes on and on.
Let’s face it; we have a massive drug problem. In 1998 the U.S. spent $93 Billion on prescription drugs, and in the same year, spent $96 Billion to treat the side effects of those drugs. Not to mention the real kicker: prescription drugs properly prescribed and taken KILL 106,000 Americans each year, and that’s only in hospitals and does not take into account nursing homes, people taking drugs at home or any drugs that are taken or given improperly.
You may ask why I encourage patients to stay drug-free or why I push you to refer friends and family to our office for what chiropractic has to offer – well – look at the alternative!
The scariest part of it all is that while you are reading this article the legal drug trade has marketing executives in fancy suits, in fancy board rooms figuring out ways to get more drugs into you, your friends and your family. To make it even worse, some of those executives are there just to figure out how to get more drugs to our children.
In the words of the band, the Temptations, “I ain’t too proud to beg!” I beg you to tell people you care about to try chiropractic, to come find out what chiropractic has to offer. If we can merely keep someone you love from taking unnecessary medication we may literally save their life! We may keep them from becoming one of the 106,000 Americans that lose their lives to the most profitable business on the planet: The legal drug trade.
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