You know they are marketing cholesterol drugs for children , now .... beware !

One of my relatives just had a transplant. You should see the number of drugs that have to be taken. Just grateful for the donor really.

The beauty for the drug companies is most of these needed pills have to be taken for life once you get on them...guaranteed to keep the money coming in

My Mother is on more pills than I can count and I am convinced half of those pills cause her to need the other half.

Modern medicine is wonderful and when someone needs a pill they should take it. I just do not believe that most of the pills people take need to be prescribed.

Part of the blame needs to be put on the public. We live in an instant world and we expect to be healed instantly with the latest miracle drug. The biggest problem, however, is that corporate greed makes pharmaceutical companies to tell doctors that a medicine that has been approved for one specific ailment is also OK for something else. Doctors then go ahead and prescribe it so they can get all of the bonus trips and perks.

Medicine for money is dangerous. Nothing should ever come before the health of the patient.

But My Doctor says I need them to be Normal. I need them so can be a productive person in my community.

Think we should have let them be in on the new healthcare proposal as they are a huge part of the issue? All our systems are backwards and we all know it. Get out and occupy for a better future....our kids deserve our efforts and dedication. Without us all this too will be steamrolled into submission. It is our turn to create the "change we need"

This is why Big Pharma wants to diminish the ability of the FDA to regulate what they put on the market. They should be sued to the point of cutting greatly into their billion dollar revenues so they would not find it so easy to use the American people as their guinea pigs. They have no financial incentive to prove these drugs are safe for human consumption. It is one of the worst examples of what deregulation's negative impact on the consumer results in. Blame the pols who are in the pocket of this criminal enterprise known as Big Pharma. They are equally without souls.

I believe this is another example of joined efforts of powerful pharmaceuticals and government by "creating a problem and offering the solution".

about 90% of all pharmacueticals r juz plain BS...the natural 1's (i.e. opiate derivatives & some antibiotics etc.) tend 2 b the cheapest & most effective...but there is a tendency 2 demonize these natural drugs...there's much more money 2 b made from "UNATURAL" medicine!...many more peeps dying from or lack of food...don't b fooled!

All part the massive effort to dumb down America. Most drugged up people's capacity to clearly analyze and think freely are greatly diminished.

$$$$$..... That's why, lot's of money...

"Patent" medicines, what began advertising in this country... It still exists, proprietary formulas of experimental medicines being pushed on the populace for monetary gain....

And for the same reasons employers used to promote cocaine, they do still promote whichever drug (a few have similar effect) to this day (though less overtly). Sorry, certain drugs are performance enhancing, that's exactly why 2 fighter pilots showed up on an ABC news program in late 2001 or early 02, admitting amphetamine was pushed to them by commanding officers, and may have played a part in them firing on the wrong house or people....

The added bonus being addiction, the construction industry is notorious for being wrapped up in the drug trade... It's hard work, and an addicted, hard working employee making alright money, is about as loyal as they come...

Nothing is going to change, short of regulation, and education... That is the ONLY (oh-yeah, giving a shit about your fellow man goes miles in helping, if a person feels unneeded, unwanted, they easily fall to drugs, love one another is a big part) answer to the drug problem in this country. And half hearted attempts will only bring half-assed change...

As far as the pharmaceutical aspects.... Their experimental things and such, will keep going, as long as they can buy representatives... Fortunately, most of their more dangerous experimental stuff only goes to those suffering psychiatric problems, and as we all know, they're not really people anyway (sarcasm)....

Idk, the one redeeming quality is the older more tested stuff. At least if you have a need there are older drugs, and the dangers are more well known, and you can act accordingly... Once again, education is the answer...

Most pharmaceuticals are loaded with fluoride to keep you from waking up. With the calcification of the pineal gland we can not absorb positive stimuli and are constantly wondering why we feel so depressed. Lets go shopping, get drunk, etc...that will make us feel better. Wrong!

PS...Sinse breaks down the calcification...wonder why it's illegal?

Don't you know that if they addict us all to these medications that the population will be thinned out.
Fire up the fat one and be happy.

It is truly mind-boggling to sit in front of a television program on the history of the DEA and the origins of "illegal" drugs in this country, only to have the program sponsored by a plethora of "legal" drugs. That antidepressant not working for you...ask you doctor to add another one. At no point is depression looked at as a perfectly natural symptom of a sick society, but rather, it is used to sell "legal" drugs. As they go on to list the possible side effects of the legal drugs, you can't help thinking a brisk walk or run might be a better way to deal with depression. +^d

Because we have a pharma industry that cares more about profits than safety by deciding to recommend their addictive horseshit over natural safe weeds perhaps?

Free the weed, natures happy pill.

Thanks for sharing and getting this information out. Most people don't know this is happening until it happens in their family. This information has opened my eyes.

It is very important for every person to take ownership over their own health care. Even when being given chemotherapy, doctors are often brainwashed by big Pharma to include a large regimine of "anti-nausea" drugs. From first hand experience, I KNOW that it is often much better to NOT use all those drugs. I became much more sick from the drugs than without. I was up and going on with my life days faster without all the drugs and I did not feel so dizzy and queasy all the time. No, I did not feel great but the drugs did not work on me at all. I am not alone, this happens in many, many cases. It is essential that each person not accept what is spoonfed as 100% fact. Doctors are often unaware of some of the side effects of the drugs Pharma insists are perfect. For many (or most) these drugs may provide wonderful relief but for others they will not.

The majority of people in this country are over-medicated, undereducated, overfed, and under-represented.

If a Pharmaceutical Corporation is equal to a person, why hasn't Texas killed one yet?