Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey
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 Drug manufacturers constantly seek to expand their markets and have found a windfall in the ADHD drugs with revenues for these alone hitting $1 billion in 2001. Health care providers have an expanding patient base to draw from as the numbers of ADHD cases continue to rise. Insurance companies, who typically pay a physician for no more than 15 minutes of their time to evaluate a child for ADHD, save money when drugs like Adderall and Ritalin are prescribed instead of delving into a more labor-intensive examination of what the real home or school problems might be. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 The amount of advertising that drug companies do on television, radio, and in print is at an all-time high and growing. drug manufacturers have only one goal, that is to increase profits. The only way they can increase profits is to convince people that they need to use more drugs. Drug companies simply want more people taking more drugs more consistently. Drug companies are not interested in health, they're interested in increasing sales and profits.
In order to make this happen, drug companies are producing very sophisticated advertisements for television, radio, and print. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Most have policies which state they will not be unduly influenced by drug manufacturers. I have read a number of these policy statements. But I also contacted many of these organizations to inquire concerning how much of their funding came from drug companies.5 Not one of the "independent" bodies was willing to share that information.
The Second "Proof"
The Effexor advertisement's "See the data" page then makes the following claim: "Proven to resolve emotional and physical symptoms." Once again there are two references to the fine print at the bottom of the page. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Furthermore, the FDA with its limited resources fully recognizes that it is incapable of regulating the thousands of food and drug manufacturers and the millions of products they produce today. As for the substances that have been given the FDA's seal of approval, can we really trust this approval status? Distant and very recent history would tell us we cannot. One doesn't have to look too far for examples of consumer ingested products that have been approved by the FDA, only later to be taken off the market due to complications, including many deaths. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's like we have a country of drug pushers, drug runners, drug retailers, drug manufacturers and drug apologizers. And who's the Al Capone running the drug racket? The FDA, of course.
And then we have this "War on drugs," which does really important things like outlawing hemp. Oh yes, hemp is so dangerous. My God, you can make paper with it! It's so dangerous, this hemp. You can make a pair of jeans out of hemp. You can make sails for ships out of hemp, as some history buffs know. You can make car bumpers out of hemp and recyclable car parts. You can make biodiesel out of hemp. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| HEALTH BENEFITS
Yams contain a unique phytoestrogen called diosgenin that is used as a starting material for the synthesis of the hormones estrogen and progesterone by drug manufacturers. Contrary to some popular claims, the human body cannot convert diosgenin into the human hormone progesterone; however, yams are still a super-food for women, especially since they possess phytoestrogen activity and are a good source of vitamin B6. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 If energy healing could be made into tablet form, drug manufacturers would get interested quickly.
Instead, they identify deviations in physiology and behavior that vary from some hypothetical norm as unique disorders or dysfunctions, and then they educate the public about the dangers of these menacing disorders. Of course, the over-simplified symptomology used in defining the dysfunctions prevalent in drug company advertisements has viewers convinced they are afflicted by that particular malady. "Do you worry? Worry is a primary symptom of "medical condition" called Anxiety Disorder. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 Maintaining a state of public malnutrition with a hightech diet has become highly profitable for food and drug manufacturers.
Malnutrition Studies
The amount of disease caused by poor nutrition has been studied in institutions, primarily hospitals and nursing homes. These are the last places in the world you would expect nutrition to be neglected. In one study, it was found half the surgical patients suffered protein-calorie malnutrition, and the general medical patients were even worse off. In another study, 20% of the patients studied were deficient in each nutrient examined. |
| Maintaining a state of public malnutrition with a high-tech diet has become highly profitable for food and drug manufacturers.
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Mike Adams
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| The drug manufacturers heavily influence doctors to keep pushing these onto patients. And as a result, most chemotherapy patients eventually give in to conventional medicine and end up generating these stratospheric profits for pharmaceutical companies that manufacture chemotherapy agents.
Diabetes is caused (and reversed) by food choice
Diabetes is another disease that is primarily caused by dietary factors. |
The Life Extension Editorial Staff
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 NORD can provide you with the names of compassionate cate programs available from several drug manufacturers. NORD also has its own compassionate care program.
Melatonin
Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland duting sleep. It is considered to be a master hormone because it is a neutoendocrine modulator and can exert a regulatoty effect over many different areas in the body. Evidence suggests HIV immune suppression may be slowed by nightly intake of melatonin. Melatonin enhances the production of T-helper cells. |
Robert Whitaker
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 After World War II, global leadership in drug development began to shift from Germany to the United States, and it did so because the financial opportunities in the United States were so much greater. drug manufacturers in the United States could get FDA approval for their new medications with relative ease, since at that time they did not have to prove that their drugs were effective, only that they weren't too toxic. They could also charge much higher prices for their drugs in the United States than in other countries because of strong patent-protection laws that limited competition. |
C. P. Khare
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 In Indian Herbal Pharmacopoeia, jointly published by Regional Research Laboratory, CSIR, Jammu-Tawi and Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association, Mumbai, suggested dosage is based on the following sources:
Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India. 1989. Ministry of Health, Government of India, New Delhi-110001.
British Herbal Compendium. 1993. British Herbal Medicine Association.
Handbook of Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants. 1990. Kapoor LD, CRC Press Inc., Boca Raton, Florida. Herbal Medicines. 1996. CA Nowall et al, The Pharmaceutical Press, London. Pharmaceutical Basis of Therapeutics. 1996. |
Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA
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| Although the FDA is supposed to be an impartial government watchdog organization protecting us consumers from greedy corporations looking to make a buck at the expense of our health, in truth it is a politically driven machine largely controlled by food and drug manufacturers. FDA drug approval has much more to do with political maneuvering and who's throwing around the most money and power, and very little to do with how safe and effective a food or drug is. You absolutely cannot assume that just because a food or drug carries the label "FDA Approved" you can take it without concern. |
| The distinctions made by drug manufacturers and the medical profession between drugs that are "habit-forming" and those that are "addictive" are strictly academic and seem to have been created largely to justify prescribing dangerous drugs. If you are hooked on a drug, the difference between one that is addictive and one that is habit-forming is academic. Our definition of an addictive drug is one that creates a dependence that falls outside of a legitimate medical need. If you have been using a drug for so long that you find you can't stop, you are addicted, regardless of what the drug is. |
| As might be expected, drug manufacturers claim that these drugs are not addictive, but hundreds of thousands of people who have had to withdraw from them might disagree. According to Dr. Joseph Glenmullen, a Harvard Medical School
STIMULANTS WITH POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE
Amphetamines
Antidepressants
Caffeine
Cylert
Dexedrines
Diethylpropion
Mazindol
Methamphetamines Methyiphenidate (Ritalin) Phenmetrazine
Phenylpropanolamine (nonprescription, i.e. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Not Convinced That The FDA Is Purposely Suppressing Natural Cures For Diseases, And Allows drug manufacturers To Sell Ineffective And Dangerous Drugs? Then Read:
• Innocent Casualties: The FDA's War Against Humanity by Elaine Feuer
• Stop the FDA: Save Your Health Freedom by Steven Fowkes (Editor)
(Discover the FDA's hidden agenda; learn how to improve your health with supplements; discover the real reasons the FDA banned tryptophan; find out how the FDA suppresses medical breakthroughs; learn the true value of nutritional medicine; learn what you can do to save you health freedom. |
Ray Strand, M.D.
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 For the first time in history, the newly established FDA required drug manufacturers to prove that their drugs were safe prior to marketing.3
Did you know that it wasn't until Congress passed the Durham-Humphery Amendment in 1951 that a drug could be labeled "For Sale by Prescription Only"? (Many of my patients, and perhaps you, too, remember that year. It was not so long ago.) This amendment determined that a drug would be defined "a prescription drug" when it was determined unsafe for self-medication and meant for use only under the direction of a physician. |
Stephen Fried
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 But he felt that using the tactic against drug manufacturers was particularly ill advised. The aide had a lot of experience working on pharmaceub> I I ILK Kl L Lb tical issues, and he had come to believe that drug manufacturers were the last people on earth you should attack subtly.
"These are CEOs who, if someone says their hair is parted wrong, they call up their PR person," he said with a chuckle. "Anything that in the least bit sheds negative public whatever on them, they go crazy. . . . Few people have the expertise to take them on. And there are so many reasons why not to take them on. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 While the overall profits of "500" companies declined an average of 53 percent in 2001, the top ten U.S. drug manufacturers increased profits by an average of 33 percent. The same year, 2.9 billion prescriptions were filled in the United States—that's 9.9 prescriptions for every man, woman, and child in the country.
Pharmaceutical companies spent $2.5 billion in 2000 promoting prescription drugs, an increase of nearly 45 percent over 1999. These advertisements contribute to rising costs by inducing consumer demand for newer, higher-priced drugs, when the older ones may work just as well. |
Mark Blumenthal
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 That is, phytomedicines are made from raw materials and extracts that meet national or the European pharmacopeia standards for identity and purity, they are required to be manufactured by proper good manufacturing practices (GMPs: the body of federal requirements governing how food or drug manufacturers must operate their production facilities in order to ensure safe, properly labeled consumer foods and drugs), they are evaluated and approved by national governments for indications as nonprescription drugs and for safety parameters (e.g. |
Katharine Greider
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 Last year alone more than twenty states have considered legislation to allow state governments to negotiate with drug manufacturers for supplemental rebates to state Medicaid programs. Some state initiatives would extend negotiated benefits to state residents without insurance, while others have instituted formularies for Medicaid beneficiaries. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 A House committee charged that the FDA's "advisory committees" were subject to "improper influence" from drug manufacturers.32
Several FDA officials and drug company executives were convicted on corruption, racketeering, and similar charges for a bribery scheme that went on from 1989-1992. Generic drug companies paid off FDA officials to approve their drugs and block approval of competitors' drugs. The generic drug companies also withheld data and even substituted other companies' brand name drugs for evaluation, instead of risking an evaluation of their own product. |
Kevin Trudeau
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| This is good for the drug manufacturers as it makes them lots of money, but it's very bad for you because it will guarantee that you will continue to remain sick and get sicker, and sicker, and sicker.
Let me give you a good example. If a person walked up to you and said, "Every time I hit my foot with a hammer it hurts. How do I stop the pain?" You would laugh and simply say "Stop hitting your foot with a hammer." If a person said "Every time I pour kerosene all over my house and light it with a match, my house catches fire. How do I stop my house from burning? |
| This medical liability legislation is being used as a cover to grant amnesty to drug manufacturers, protecting them from having to compensate millions of patients for the harm their drugs have caused. It is payback for the pharmaceutical industry, which was the largest corporate sponsor of the Bush election campaign. The people of America and their political representatives have to realize that the proposed medical liability legislation is a "Trojan Horse. |
| Because it has been proven, and even the drug manufacturers' own literature states that every single drug, without exception, causes harm to the body.
• Insiders report that for years the tobacco industry secretly paid millions of dollars to individual producers and directors of movies and television shows, making sure that cigarettes were prominently and positively displayed in their movies and programs. Did you ever wonder why? In the old movies when a person was standing before a firing squad, when asked if he had any final requests his answer was always "A cigarette? |
Stephen Cummings and Dana Ullman
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 Therefore, in part 4 we provide you with listings of homeopathic books, organizations, drug manufacturers, and Internet resources to help you obtain more information about homeopathic medicine.
The Chinese believe that the best doctors use no medicines and, instead, heal by giving guidance on healthful living. Strictly speaking, homeopathy is a system of giving medicines, and even natural medicines only temporarily can improve symptoms caused by continued exposure to personal or societal health stress (influences homeopaths call "obstacles to cure"). |
Kevin Trudeau
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| Whistleblowers have reported that internal documents at both the drug manufacturers and FDA show that drugs, both prescription and nonprescription, have no positive effects in over 70 percent of the people that use them. However, these same documents show that all nonprescription and prescription drugs have negative side effects in 100 percent of the people that use them. All nonprescription and prescription drugs are ineffective and cause disease. |
Ray Strand, M.D.
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| Yet other drug manufacturers often rush to find similar but chemically different drugs in order to capture some market share of a successful drug. They then submit these medications for New Drug Applications and can receive their own patents. This allows them to compete in the open market with an already successful drug.
Me-Too drugs rarely offer considerable medical advantages over their predecessors. Therefore, the marketing strategy of a Me-Too drug usually entails convincing physicians that this drug is just as good as its predecessor, except:
• it costs less.
• it is easier to swallow. |
Larry Trivieri, Jr.
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 The monopoly position of U.S. drug manufacturers is thereby extended beyond this country's borders."13
The Medical Establishment and the Suppression of Unorthodox Research
The FDA is not the only force that practitioners of alternative medicine must contend with. In order to receive grants for medical research and be published in the major medical and scientific journals, physicians and researchers are compelled not to stray far from conventional views. Otherwise, they run the risk of being shut out of the mainstream and find themselves without the funding they need to carry on their work. |
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