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The Most Dangerous & Heavily Promoted Prescription Drugs & Their Potential Natural Alternatives

TheWake UpCall 0 Prescription Drugs 7:14 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death in the world. If that’s not enough to make you shriek, I’m not sure what will.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pharmaceutical industry is committing a silent holocaust around the globe. It works like this: People are sick because they aren’t getting proper nutritients. Then they are covering up their sickness with a doctor-prescribed pill. But this is causing some serious side effects, leading their doctors to prescribe more pills to conceal <em>those</em> side effects.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The following is a list of the 7 most dangerous and heavily promoted <a href="http://www.life-sources.com/pages/The-12-most-Dangerous-Prescription-Drugs....html" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;" target="_blank">prescription drugs</a> with some natural alternatives.</span></div>
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The Most Dangerous & Heavily Promoted Prescription Drugs & Their Potential Natural Alternatives

Prescription drugs are the 4th leading cause of death in the world. If that’s not enough to make you shriek, I’m not sure what will. The...

Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 People Each Year, Are You Being Medicated Incorrectly?

TheWake UpCall 0 Prescription Drugs 12:22 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br><br>“Death by medicine is a twenty-first century epidemic, and America’s war on drugs is clearly directed at the wrong enemy.” –Dr. Joseph Mercola [2]<br><br>I have briefly focused on mushrooms and cannabis as medicine sources. Now, it is only fair to shine the spotlight on the other side of the medicinal spectrum: prescription drugs. One could go through and list the pros and cons of each individual prescription drug or, to save some time, one could first approach prescription drugs as a whole. Doing so exposes an alarming truth, ringing louder than the individual benefits of each drug.  Prescription drugs are currently responsible for more deaths annually than illegal drugs.  According to Tom Frieden, the CDC director himself, “it’s a big problem, and it’s getting worse [3].”<br><br><img height="484" src="http://cdn1.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2013/05/prescription-drug-abuse-us-article-300x227.jpg" width="640"></span></div>

Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 People Each Year, Are You Being Medicated Incorrectly?

“Death by medicine is a twenty-first century epidemic, and America’s war on drugs is clearly directed at the wrong enemy.” –Dr. Joseph Merc...

America Land of the drugged, home of the medically enslaved

TheWake UpCall 0 Prescription Drugs 4:12 PM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In case you haven't noticed, a grand delusion has bewitched the United States, where constant pro-USA rhetoric and gooey sentiments about being fortunate enough to live in "the greatest country on Earth" have blinded many Americans from recognizing and acknowledging the reality staring them in the face: that society is crumbling at an unprecedented rate and that the country has been taken over by crooks and lunatics who are robbing the people blind and stealing their livelihoods with little resistance.</span><div>
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America Land of the drugged, home of the medically enslaved

In case you haven't noticed, a grand delusion has bewitched the United States, where constant pro-USA rhetoric and gooey sentiments abou...

70 MILLION AMERICANS TAKING MIND-ALTERING DRUGS

TheWake UpCall 0 Drug, Prescription Drugs 12:06 PM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The heroin-overdose death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has caused the media to focus, however fleetingly, on America’s drug problem.</span><br>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">News accounts of the Oscar-winner’s tragic demise typically reference the startling increase in heroin-related deaths in the last four to five years. The problem, <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/02/04/271591524/spike-in-heroin-use-can-be-traced-to-prescription-pads" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(252, 215, 0); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">reporters explain,</a> is the vast number of Americans addicted to prescription pain meds like OxyContin, many of whom discover heroin to be both cheaper and easier to obtain than the prescription opioid drugs to which they initially became addicted.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s accurate as far as it goes. But by following the trail further, we arrive at a place far more shocking and consequential. We discover that not only has the traditional distinction between illegal “street drugs” and legal “therapeutic prescription drugs” become so blurred as to be almost nonexistent, but between America’s twin drug epidemics – one illegal, the other legal – well over 70 million Americans are using mind-altering drugs. And that number doesn’t include abusers of alcohol, which adds an additional 60 million Americans. So we’re really talking about 130 million strung-out Americans. How is this possible?</span><br>
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70 MILLION AMERICANS TAKING MIND-ALTERING DRUGS

The heroin-overdose death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has caused the media to focus, however fleetingly, on America’s drug problem. Ne...

Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 People Each Year, Are You Being Medicated Incorrectly?

TheWake UpCall 0 Medicine, Prescription Drugs 2:31 PM

<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; text-align: justify;">“Death by medicine is a twenty-first century epidemic, and America’s war on drugs is clearly directed at the wrong enemy.” –Dr. Joseph Mercola [2]</i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; text-align: justify;">I have briefly focused on mushrooms and cannabis as medicine sources. Now, it is only fair to shine the spotlight on the other side of the medicinal spectrum: prescription drugs. One could go through and list the pros and cons of each individual prescription drug or, to save some time, one could first approach prescription drugs as a whole. Doing so exposes an alarming truth, ringing louder than the individual benefits of each drug.  Prescription drugs are currently responsible for more deaths annually than illegal drugs.  According to Tom Frieden, the CDC director himself, “it’s a big problem, and it’s getting worse [3].”</span><br />
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Out of the 783,936 annual deaths from conventional medicine mistakes,<em>approximately 106,000 of those are the result of prescription drug use</em> [1]. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, two-hundred and ninety people in the United States are killed by prescription drugs every day [4].</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Even if prescription drugs do not literally kill a patient though, they slowly kill their mind and body. This alters their ability to innately feel deeply and compassionately, the patient can be stripped piece by piece of his inner awareness and inner consciousness, the very essence of their being.</div>
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<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Death by Rx can be sentenced in the form of many, often times subtle masks. Since it happens slowly, the clouding of the patient’s once clear brain goes unnoticed as the fog sets in so densely that he is no longer able to decipher if this new state of consciousness is “normal” or if it is better or less than it should be; rather, it just<i>is</i>. The body system is inevitably forced to adjust to the foreign  chemicals the patient pops in his mouth every morning, activating the conditioning of acceptance of his new found state of awareness as if it is as it has always been. As if this shift in consciousness ceased to ever occur. Little by little he fades, until the place where his mind now resides is one far away.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Prescription pills merely treat, or should I say bandage, undesirable behaviors and sensations as opposed to addressing the underlying root cause of the problem. Band-Aids disintegrate as the medication fades, only to unveil unwanted symptoms once more.  For example, a patient tells their doctor they are abnormally tired, at which point the doctor delivers a diagnosis of “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” equipped with a prescription for a medication that promotes “wakefulness” such as Vyvanse, Nuvigil, Provigil, or Adderall. Entering the picture before you can so much as dig your toes into the problems accompanied with use or potential abuse of stimulants is a bright red flag. One that arose before the doctor’s pen was able to so much as brush against his Rx pad.  “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,” similar to countless other diagnoses accepted by an outlandish amount of patients with each given day, is <i>not</i> a diagnosis. It is a symptom. A symptom of a diagnosis that the doctor failed to put a respectable amount of effort into identifying. People do not become chronically tired for no reason, lest they fall chronically lazy; in which case a prescription surely exists for as well. Chronic debilitating fatigue is a clear sign the body system is not functioning at its optimal level. Knowledge that the body will always work to do what is necessary to survive, and that even then, it is still immensely fatigued, sets off a deafening siren signaling the presence of a problem too big for the body’s system to compensate for. The sad and infuriating truth is that a large handful of people diagnosed with “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome” and numerous other disorders are in reality suffering from something as simple as a nutritional deficiency, easily identifiable with a hair analysis test. I use the term “simple” because when this is the case, a stout dose of the select nutrient may be administered to the patient on a temporary basis, during which the deficiency will correct itself and the patient will be alleviated of “Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.”</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;"><img height="266" src="http://cdn2.collective-evolution.com/assets/uploads/2013/05/123-300x199.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Scenarios like this easily occur due to the average dietary standards, or lack thereof, followed by the majority of society. It is truly a shame to think of a person taking prescription drugs with an essay length of possible side effects, when the answer to their health problem lay within the painless process of nutrient replenishment all along. Some doctors, not all, are quite apt to spatting off spoof diagnoses and prescribing whatever dangerous drug their alleged diagnosis may require. And to what expense? Useless, avoidable suffering of a patient whose doctor overlooked the most obvious and important symptom of all -that the patient, like himself, is a human being. An equal being treated inhumanely by a fellow human being who he sought out with trust regarding his problem.  Take a step back, take the truth in. This happens frequently, so there is no use to pretend, let it all sink in. Now, who is the truly sick one?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">Logically speaking, the war on drugs would be on the ones responsible for the most fatalities and health complications, the ones that are easily accessible and right in front of our faces, the ones which remain legal despite all this; rather than on the drugs that are already illegal and monitored, more difficult to obtain, and responsible for less deaths. Taking the bigger picture into account, if the war on drugs was honestly centered on the well-being of society, focus would be placed on drugs most harmful to the human body system, prescription drugs. But that is logically speaking and unfortunately, logically speaking commonly translates to wishful thinking in the world of war, medicine and illegal drugs. With each passing moment, “logic” becomes more and more of a foreign concept to the major parties in charge of the world of conventional western medicine.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">References:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">1. Null, G PHD. (2011). <i>Death by Medicine</i>. Mount Jackson, VA: Praktikos Books.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">2. Mercola, J. “The New Epidemic Sweeping Accross America (and it’s Not a Disease). <i>Mercola.com</i>. 26 October 2011. Web. 1 May 2013. <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/26/prescription-drugs-number-one-cause-preventable-death-in-us.aspx" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;">http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/26/prescription-drugs-number-one-cause-preventable-death-in-us.aspx</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 20.99431800842285px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: justify;">3. Glover, S, Girion, L. “Prescription drug-related deaths continue to rise in U.S.” Los Angeles Times. 29 March 2013. Web. 1 May 2013. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-prescription-drugrelated-deaths-continue-to-rise-20130329,0,2980747.story" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.2s linear; color: #27aae1; outline: none !important; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s linear;">http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-prescription-drugrelated-deaths-continue-to-rise-20130329,0,2980747.story</a></div>
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Prescription Drugs Kill Over 100,000 People Each Year, Are You Being Medicated Incorrectly?

“Death by medicine is a twenty-first century epidemic, and America’s war on drugs is clearly directed at the wrong enemy.” –Dr. Joseph Merco...

18 American women die every day from prescription drugs

TheWake UpCall 2 Prescription Drugs 1:09 PM

<div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">Women in the US are dying from prescription drug overdose at record rates: a new study found that this death rate has increased five-fold in the last decade, and the CDC now calls this a growing public health epidemic.</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;"><img height="273" src="http://www.axisresidentialtreatment.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/prescription-drug-addictions.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">“Mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are dying at rates that we have never seen before,” said Centers of Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Thomas Frieden, who led a study analyzing the extent of prescription drug overdose.<span id="more-55345" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div>

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<div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">The study found that men are still more likely to die of overdoses than women, but the number of female deaths spiked drastically. Eighteen women currently die from prescription drug overdose each day. From 1999 to 2010, the rate of overdose fatalities among women increased by 400 percent, leading to 15,300 deaths in 2010. Among men the rate increased by 250 percent.</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">By 2010, 40 percent of all overdose deaths were women, most of them middle-aged who took prescription painkillers. The CDC found that women ages 45 to 54 were most likely to ingest a fatal dose of prescription drugs, followed closely by women ages 55 to 64.</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">“Unfortunately, women are catching up in this regard,” Frieden told reporters during a conference call. Researchers believe that 70 percent of overdose deaths were unintentional. About 12 percent of overdose deaths were labeled as suicides.</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;"><img height="226" src="http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/prescription-drugs.jpg" width="400" /></div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">The study’s authors hypothesized that women are more likely than men to be prescribed painkillers, use them chronically, and acquire prescriptions for higher doses – in part because women are more susceptible to chronic pain such as fibromyalgia, a condition of widespread pain throughout the body.</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, told the New York Times that women are also more likely to be given psychotherapeutic drugs to treat depression and anxiety, which could interfere with other medications and sometimes lead to death.</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">Women typically also have smaller body masses than men, making them more susceptible to overdose. They are also more likely to “doctor shop” and acquire pain pills from multiple physicians, CDC officials told AP. The CDC report particularly focused on prescription opioids like Vicodin, OxyContin, and Opana.</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">“These are dangerous medications and they should be reserved for situations like severe cancer pain,” Frieden said. “In many other situations, the risks far outweigh the benefits. Prescribing an opiate may be condemning a patient to lifelong addiction and life-threatening complications.”</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">Drug overdoses now kill more US women than car accidents, cervical cancer or homicide, and Frieden believes doctors should consider the possibility of addiction and think of alternative treatments for chronic pain before prescribing opioids.</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">“Stopping this epidemic in women – and men – is everyone’s business,” Frieden said in a statement. “Doctors need to be cautious about prescribing and patients about using these drugs.”</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;">Source:</div><div style="color: #1b1b1b; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 19px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://usahitman.com/18awdedp/">http://usahitman.com/18awdedp/</a></div>

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