Western medicine prescribes pharmaceuticals that are not only beneficial, but several that are lifesaving. Without penicillin’s profound impact, 75% of us would not be alive today because our parents or grandparents would have succumbed to infections. Globally, antibiotics have saved billions of lives.
Advanced diabetics aren’t able to use the energy stored in their bodies, but have been blessed with insulin, a hormone therapy that allows them to live productive lives. Polio and smallpox have been virtually eliminated with time-tested vaccines. Morphine alleviates pain and anesthetics have allowed all types of surgeries to be carried out effectively. The common drug aspirin is widely used to treat minor aches and pains, fevers, and is also used as an anti-inflammatory and blood thinner. Added to the beneficial list are psychiatric drugs, birth control, steroids, HIV drugs, heart, blood pressure and Parkinson’s medications, and thyroid hormone replacement. Additional medical breakthroughs are on the horizon.
Although the drugs mentioned above enhance the quality of life, most do not cure people and many come with side effects that range from mild to severe. Some side effects can even lead to death. Rather than encourage patients to improve their diets, change their destructive behaviors and detox, many doctors now simply prescribe pills to cover up unwanted symptoms. What we need is safer, more effective drugs and increased accountability.
A century ago, drug abuse was limited mostly to laudanum and alcohol, but according to the CDC, prescription drug abuse has reached epidemic proportions. Pills are now prescribed to treat everything from obesity to anxiety. According to the NIH, opioid overdoses in 2022 were 10 times higher than in 1999 and have killed 250,000 people since 2018, totaling over 200 overdoses per day. The U.S. claims 4.4% of the earth’s population, but consumes 80% of the opioids, costing society over 55 billion dollars a year. Addressing this epidemic should be a priority.
The law firm RisCassi & Davis maintains that prescription drugs hospitalize 2.7 million people in the U.S. annually and that 106,000 of those die. 350,000 adverse drug events occur in U.S. nursing homes each year. Astonishingly, it is estimated that only 1-10% of adverse drug events are ever reported.
Let’s take a quick peek at Big Pharma’s economic model. Profoundly entrenched in America’s psyche, the industry funds the CDC, the WHO, the FDA who is pressured to approve their drugs, fact checkers, and media advertising. Big Pharma pays doctors to prescribe, researchers for favorable conclusions, politicians and lobbyists to influence votes, medical schools to teach, lawyers to defend, celebrities to endorse, and big tech to sponsor. The global market was valued at $1.3 trillion in 2023 with the U.S. taking up 52%.
Pharmaceutical dependency spells massive profits and the love of money breeds the institutional corruption. Medical literature is often misrepresented and distorted. Reputable physicians are compromised by an industry that spends billions on promotion. Testing can be brief and inadequate. According to a House Oversight Committee report, Big Pharma spends a large portion of its R&D budget developing tactics to suppress generic competition and most investments are used to develop new drugs.
Sergio Sismondo of Queen’s University writes in the journal Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analysis that pharmaceutical company-sponsored clinical trials “are designed, organized, audited, analyzed, and written up by the companies themselves and their hired subcontractors.” Studies published in medical journals are often skewed or fabricated altogether. It is painfully obvious that the good and the ugly coexist in the pharmaceutical industry and it is high time that the greedy fraudsters be rooted out and brought to justice.
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