The 6 Types of Pills Big Pharma Wants You Hooked On for Life
from Dr. Mercola, 5-14-12
What would you say if you knew someone had killed 60,000 people? Would you call it a felony of the worst kind, times 60,000? If you totaled up the value of all those lives in criminal court, what would you say they’re worth?
Billions? Trillions?
Or—how about a measly $321 million in exchange for a guilty plea to a misdemeanor? When you consider that this involves the second-largest drug maker in the U.S.—Merck—and its deadly drug Vioxx, then you’ll probably agree that a misdemeanor and a $321 million fine amounts to nothing more than a slap on the wrist.
Business analysts were estimating a $25 billion judgment when the drug was taken off the market, but even when combined with the $4.85 billion in payouts to patients who suffered heart attacks and strokesi, the final bill is nowhere close to original estimates of the damage.
Yet that’s the plea agreement Merck recently made with a federal court in Boston on April 19ii, after being charged with illegal promotion of Vioxx for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, before it was approved for that use.
The sad tale brings up memories of what I tried to warn readers about in 1999, when I showed that people taking this drug were at a massively increased risk of dying from heart disease and stroke. It’s tragic that Vioxx was removed only AFTER 60,000 people died.
Dr. Wilson comments:
dangerous drugs for children
Unfortunately most of these children don’t have a true psychiatric disorder. The majority of children diagnosed with the above conditions in reality have a type of food-induced brain dysfunction called Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome. CARB syndrome is triggered by the long-term exposure to excessive fructose mainly from sucrose (sugar) and high fructose corn syrup and high glycemic carbohydrates mainly from grains.
Children with CARB syndrome can develop up to 21 brain dysfunction symptoms that often qualify them for one or more of the above once rare disorders. Because the brain plays a key role in auto-regulating fat stores, at some point children with CARB syndrome start to store excessive body fat at any caloric intake. This is how these conditions have become associated with our current epidemic of obesity and type II diabetes in children.
Children with CARB syndrome can be managed with simple dietary changes and supplements. When they are prescribed potent psychotropic medications their underlying CARB syndrome often worsens over time and these drugs tend to accelerate excessive fat storage.
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