jookeyman wrote:BTW- the people you REALLY need to fear are the psycho/sociopathic personalities. One out of 100 persons is psychopathic. One in 25 is sociopathic. Neither have a conscience. Think about that one. The sociopathic personality is quite prevalent among people in power. That is the root of the problem. People who care don't get anywhere. They become shark bait.
That I agree with, but we're going to have to disagree over Big Pharma's role in over-prescribing America.
As far as ADs go, there is a warning in every box that warns against strange behavior and suicide.
Yes, I see the commercials where they warn, "
Side effects may include nausea, headaches, growing a third eye, mass murders, suicide and hiccups"Do you work for a drug company? You seem a bit defensive about obvious influence of pharma in America, not to mention a bit pollyannish. Found this in .003 nanoseconds of looking...
The Seattle Times reported that USA pharma companies influence doctors’ diagnoses in an effort to improve their bottom lines. The report uncovered the fact that USA pharma companies give money to members of the World Health Organization, U.S. National Institute of Health and some of America’s most prestigious medical societies for these institutions to promote the pharmaceutical manufacturers industry’s agenda.
As a result, today three in four Americans are considered to have at least one disease, but millions of these people are truly not sick, resulting in sales of drugs and over prescribing of drugs, to people who do not need them, but can afford to pay for them.
The Times also found that for a broad spectrum of diseases, the experts writing the treatment guidelines had USA pharma companies ties ranging from research contracts to consultancies to stock ownership. A recent example includes the satin drugs. With a change in the guidelines of what it means to have high blood pressure, it increased the market for statin drugs, which are used to lower cholesterol in adults. It was learned that six of the nine experts on cholesterol who contributed to the new guidelines had financial ties to the USA pharma companies who produce the most commonly used statin drugs.I've got in-laws with serious mental issues, even schizophrenia, so I have seen drugs be effective in controlling the exterior of a person. I can't say I've ever heard of anyone being "cured" by the drugs though. They are simply drugged into inaction at any level of their existence. These are not the people I'm talking about necessarily, because we can see that they have mental problems easily.
I can't remember the name of the documentary I watched a month ago, but it was several different doctors talking about how they were told the drugs they were prescribing had been tested and were safe....but it ended up being total baloney designed to push these drugs out into the market for their stockholders. These same doctors went on to talk about how they were tricked by Big Pharma into helping them addict 1/3 of the country during the 1990s with bogus information on opioids. Many different kinds of pressures from pharma combined with financial incentives DID influence these doctors.
We all hear advertisements from ambulance chasers (lawyers) suing pharma companies for the damage their drugs did to people fraudulently. I don't believe these was "innocent" mistakes, but rather it is experimentation on unknowing Americans, motivated by greed.
I'd also bet more than half of the children on ADHD drugs just need more attention from the parents, and the drugs are doing permanent damage instead.
Severe mental trauma (I'm assuming you're talking about psychosis) is most likely caused by meth that was cooked up in some guys bathroom, not Big Pharma. The law is not doing their jobs. There is a database that is used to track down prescription drug abusers and they know who they are. Meth, on the other hand, is not regulated but you can spot a tweeker from a mile away if you know what to look for. The law also knows this. They are trained to spot them.
Preaching to the choir, Bro. Kid's stealing pills from the medicine cabinet. Still, I don't see Big Pharma in the picture here.
Though tweakers are a serious problem, its the psychotropic drugs that are causing the largest share of the drug problem in kids. They couldn't get it from the medicine cabinet if they weren't put there very easily in the first place.
But you inadvertently swerved into my point. Why isn't this ever brought into the discussion about mass shootings? Why is the over-prescription of drugs never mentioned as a factor when it has been a common denominator?
It should be easy to see the correlation between the over-drugging of America and a rash of psychos with guns, so we still disagree.
