How Could Drug Companies be so Evil?

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How Could Drug Companies be so Evil?

 

How Could Drug Companies be so Evil?

By Dr. Joseph Mercola

 

http://www.mercola.com/fcgi/pf/2004/may/15/drug_companies_evil.htm

 

According to the first comprehensive scientific review to include all

available studies, including negative data that have long been

withheld from public scrutiny by the pharmaceutical industry, four

popular antidepressants being used to treat thousands of depressed

American children are unsafe, ineffective or both. Those

antidepressants are:

 

a.. Paxil

b.. Zoloft

c.. Effexor

d.. Celexa

This is damning evidence of the drug companies' patent disregard for

the safety of humans and focus on profits. GlaxoSmithKline was found

to be concealing evidence that shows that these drugs do not benefit

children in any way and only increase their risk of killing

themselves. This was confirmed in an article in the Canadian Medical

Journal.

 

Fortunately, the British medical journals are far more responsive than

the American ones. The Lancet's editorial states:

 

a.. Research on SSRIs in children is marked by confusion,

manipulation, and institutional failure.

b.. In a global medical culture where evidence-based practice is

seen as the gold standard for care, these failings are a disaster.

c.. How confident is society that similar failings will not occur on

a larger scale in the future?

d.. Changes are required at every level of the global health-care

infrastructure

e.. Despite these findings, the FDA continues to support these

worthless antidepressants by claiming the failed trials don't

necessarily mean the drugs are ineffective. Data has also confirmed

that taking SSRIs weren't any better for you than taking a placebo.

Folks, if this doesn't make you fighting mad, what will?

 

Just sit down and think about it for a moment. Drug companies do the

research and learn that the drugs don't work, yet are willing to sell

and market them to children even when it is clear that they are

causing many children to commit suicide.

 

Unpublished studies of venlafaxine suggested the drug increased

suicide-related events such as suicidal thoughts or attempts by 14

times compared with placebo. This is reprehensible and despicable

behavior equivalent to any third-world dictator.

 

How can anyone possibly support this approach?

 

If this makes you one-tenth as angry as it does me, I encourage you to

do something practical about it. Tell several of your friends and have

them join the newsletter so they can learn practical alternatives to

the ineffective and deadly solutions being manipulated onto us and our

children so these evil companies can earn more profit.

 

Rather than risking the potentially deadly side effects of these

drugs, I recommend the following three steps. The great majority of

patients at my clinic noticed an amazing improvement in their

depression when following them:

 

a.. Omega-3 oils, specifically fish oil, is probably the single most

important nutrient for a child with depression to take.

 

b.. Next they should only drink water as their beverage, taking care

to avoid fruit juices, soda and milk.

 

c.. Restrict sugars and grains, which cause insulin levels to be

elevated. You can read about the techniques to follow to remove all

grains and sugars from your diet in my new book, Dr. Mercola's Total

Health Cookbook & Program.

 

Popping pills is rarely the answer to helping children suffering from

depression; it is only a temporary Band-Aid. In order to truly help

these children, we need to focus on finding the underlying cause of

the problem, then search for ways to treat it.

 

 

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