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If you have ever wondered how far Big Pharma will go to sell

Americans more overpriced prescription drugs, you won't want to miss

today's NewsTarget feature. I'll tell you about one drug-lobbying

group's shocking plan to scare consumers who buy cheaper drugs in

Canada, and I'll explain why pharmaceuticals are actually far more

dangerous than terrorists.

 

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Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences

American consumers

Posted Friday, June 02, 2006 by Mike Adams

 

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, especially in this case.

Lloyd Grove, a columnist for the New York Daily News, says that the

pharmaceutical lobby in the United States, a group called PhRMA,

actually commissioned the writing of a fiction novel designed to scare

Americans into avoiding prescription drugs from Canada. The book was

supposed to tell a story of terrorists who altered prescription drugs

from Canada in order to kill Americans who were buying them over the

internet or crossing the border to buy them at lower prices. Bizarre,

huh? What an interesting tactic to try to convince people to pay

sky-high prices -- monopoly prices, in fact -- for prescription drugs

in the United States. But that's only part of this story.

 

When the book project fizzled, the authors were offered $100,000 to

keep quiet about the deal, says Grove. The book was also supposed to

be " dumbed down " for women, because apparently women make up a large

part of the prescription drug buyers in the United States, and the

people in charge of this project wanted to make sure women could

" understand it. "

 

How disrespectful can this pharmaceutical industry be? To what lengths

will it go to try to convince us that drugs from outside the United

States are unsafe? I wouldn't be surprised if the industry actually

commissioned a terrorist attack on drugs from Canada. Then it could

say, " Look how unsafe drugs are from Canada! Now you have to buy them

here in the United States. "

 

Prescription drugs aren't safe, no matter where you get them

Prescription drugs are actually the fourth-leading cause of death in

this country, according to a study in the Journal of the American

Medical Association. Those are numbers that come out of conventional

medicine. The actual number of deaths caused by prescription drugs in

this country is actually much higher when you look at independent

sources of information, such as the Death by Medicine report, authored

in part by Dr. Gary Null. Just type " Death by Medicine " into any

search engine, and you'll find that article.

 

I have a question, though: Suppose the pharmaceutical industry did

commission a terrorist attack on the drugs coming from Canada, and

suppose the American people started taking those drugs and dying. How

would we know? How could we tell the difference between people dying

from prescription drugs that are somehow tainted by terrorists, versus

people dying from prescription drugs that are dangerous and toxic

enough themselves?

 

People are dropping dead right now from prescription drugs in record

numbers. In fact, according to my own analysis, prescription drugs are

16,400 percent more dangerous than terrorists. In other words, if you

take all the prescription drug deaths since Sept.11, 2001 and compare

it to the number of Americans who have been killed by terrorists since

the Sept. 11 attacks, the drugs are 16,400 percent more dangerous than

terrorists. Drugs are killing more people than terrorists, murderers,

car accidents, plane accidents, swimming pool accidents and infant

deaths combined. In terms of what's killing people in this country,

nothing compares to prescription drugs.

 

We have a memorial in Washington, D.C. for all the veterans who died

in the Vietnam War. It's a wall, and it's a fairly sizeable wall. It

would take you some time to go through all the names on that wall. But

if we had a wall built to honor all the American citizens who have

been killed by FDA-approved prescription drugs, that wall would look

like the Great Wall of China. It would stretch on for miles. You would

never be able to read every single name on that wall unless you

dedicated a couple of years to doing so, because prescription drugs

are killing people in this country at a rate that dwarfs the number of

deaths in the Vietnam War.

 

Big Pharma wants to scare consumers away from prescription drug

alternatives

In fact, what is happening in this country today is a chemical

holocaust. We have drugs that are killing our children, causing them

to commit violent acts and suicide. We have drugs that are killing

middle-aged people and, of course, we have drugs that are killing our

senior citizens in record numbers. What does the drug industry want to

do about it? It wants to make sure that you're afraid of

alternatives. Related article

The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how

patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous

drugs

The industry message is this: " Don't you dare touch those herbs.

Don't you dare think about vitamins, and don't make the mistake of

thinking you can get nutrition from food. You need our prescription

drugs to keep you healthy. You need to take these drugs every day for

the rest of your life. And just in case you might think buying drugs

from somewhere else as a way to get a good deal, we'll scare you with

language about terrorists somehow tainting prescription drugs from

Canada. "

 

By the way, this is not the first time we have heard that language.

People in the conventional medical industry brought this up more than

a year ago. They said that drugs from Canada were dangerous because

terrorists could attack Americans by tainting the prescription drug

supply in Canada. They must have really great imaginations to come up

with this stuff. It should be the first topic in the book, 101 Ways to

Scare Americans into Doing What You Want Them to Do.

 

In this country, we have all types of fear at work in order to

convince you to do something the people in charge want you to do, like

giving up your civil liberties or paying ridiculous prices for

prescription drugs in the monopoly market in the United States.

 

Profiteering and social engineering

Some prescription drugs, by the way, are marked up as much as 55,000

percent over the cost of the raw materials. In most industries, that

would be called criminal profiteering. In the prescription drug

industry, I guess it's just called a return on investment.

Shareholders are happy. The board members are happy, and that includes

a lot of people who have high-powered positions in Washington. One of

our biggest drug companies, Eli Lilly, was once home to people like

George Bush, Sr. and Donald Rumsfeld, a man with a strong history in

various food and drug giants. There are very strong ties between

pharmaceutical companies and the Bush administration. I think that's

why you see such a strong push to convince people they have to buy

prescription drugs here in the United States at ridiculous prices to

treat fictitious diseases that don't even exist, and then stay on

those drugs for a lifetime.

 

The report that the pharmaceutical lobby tried to fund a fiction novel

designed to scare Americans away from buying drugs from Canada doesn't

surprise me. I think this industry would do anything to make more

money. I think it would put people's lives at risk, and I think it has

done this and will continue to do so. I think it would fabricate

fictitious diseases ( " disease mongering " ) and market those to the

American public to try to get people to take more drugs that they

don't need. In fact, I think it would collude or conspire with federal

regulators to make sure there is a drug-friendly environment in this

country that discredits alternatives.

 

You can call it a conspiracy if you want, but I just call it straight

old-fashioned corporate greed. It's all about money, and there's a lot

of money changing hands in the drug racket now operating in this

country. It's a swell deal if you're the guy at the top, pocketing the

take, and if you don't have any ethics. Unfortunately, that's who we

have running a lot of the corporations and government departments in

this country today. It's sad, but true.

 

Public education can change the greedy U.S. drug racket

All of this doesn't mean I'm a pessimist. I'm actually a cautious

optimist. I think we can change things for the better through public

education. My aim is to help people realize how atrocious the

pharmaceutical industry is and take action to make positive changes.

 

Obviously, we need a whole new system of medicine in this country. We

need to hold people responsible for the crimes against humanity that

are taking place right now in the pharmaceutical industry. I think a

number of individuals, CEOs and legislators need to do a little prison

time, and clearly the FDA needs wholesale reform from top to bottom so

that it can once again act like an agency concerned with protecting

the public rather than protecting the profits of the pharmaceutical

industry.

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I think we can make changes for the better. I think we can help

people realize the healing power of foods if we teach the fact that

foods contain all the medicine we need and that healthy, unprocessed

foods make most prescription drugs obsolete. If we can talk about

nutrition and the healing power of natural sunlight and physical

exercise and drinking pure water, then we can change this world for

the better. We can make a difference, and we can move past this era of

the dark ages of modern medicine we're living in now. I think that,

together, through public education, truth, honesty and integrity, we

can unleash a new golden age of nutrition and healing.

 

That's what I wish to be a part of. That's why I'm bringing you

information like this. Even though it may sound scary and negative at

first, I just want to open your eyes to what's going on out there, so

that I can invite you to a whole new realm of healing where you can

live life free of chronic disease, free of fear, free of corruption

and free of medical bankruptcies. You can be healthy, happy,

energetic, energized and creative. You can be a super healthy human

being if you turn to healing foods and do away with conventional

medicine -- the " drugs and surgery " approach to " managing disease, "

which just manages your disease, without actually helping you get rid

of it.

 

I'm all about pointing us in a new direction and continuing to learn

from nature. My work is about helping us awaken to the idea that we

can be healthier individuals. We can have healthier families,

communities, cities, nations and a healthier world if we just realize

what's going on and make some positive changes in a meaningful direction.

 

 

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