In 1997 the powerful drug company lobbyists finally got their “Direct to the Consumer” drug advertising bill passed through congress, making the U.S. the only nation in the world (except New Zealand) to permit TV drug ads. Since that time, drug profits have soared an estimated 600 percent and growing.
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Scientists Test Brain Pacemakers for Depression
By LAURAN NEERGAARD Posted at: 05/26/2008 04:44:33 PM
(AP) WASHINGTON - It’s a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients’ nerve circuitry fires.
Before reading this article, go to this website and read the documented details of hundreds of horrific suicides, murders and altercations attributed to anti-depressants. You will find the site by clicking on ‘Deaths by Antidepressants’ listed under “Resources” in the column on the right.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s a drug called Thalidomide was […]
Side Effects of Antidepressant Withdrawal
“There’s little that can minimize dizziness, anxiety and other side effects common when tapering off drugs like Cymbalta, Effexor.”
By Joe Graedon, Teresa Graedon The People’s Pharmacy
May 19, 2008 From the Los Angeles Times
I was put on Cymbalta to […]
This article illustrates the results of the aggressive advertising campaigns by the drug companies and the influence the drug salesmen have on the prescribing doctors. If Americans take so much more medicine than any other country, why is America ranked 37th in health care and we have the shortest life span??
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More Americans are Taking […]
