Millions of people take prescription medications everyday for pain without ever giving it a second thought. However, is this always the best choice? First of all, pain is a warning signal from your body telling you that something is wrong and it needs your attention. Secondly, simply masking it with pain meds never really addresses the true problem and more importantly can cause even more harm, including death.
A recent article published in the Los Angeles Times revealed that in 2009 prescription pain and anxiety medications caused more accidental deaths than automobile accidents in this country. That’s right, the “proper” use of pain meds such as Oxycontin, Vicodin, Xanax and Soma now kill more people every year (37,485) than are killed in motor vehicle accidents. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Medical experts agree that it is likely many more deaths are incorrectly attributed to medical conditions that were actually caused by severe reactions to prescription medications.
If you think the FDA is looking out for you, you are gravely (no pun intended) mistaken. After all, it took over 60,000 people to die from Get Xanax Online the pain medication Vioxx before the FDA withdrew it from the market. Why so long? Only they can answer that. But you may be interested to know that many high-ranking officials in the FDA, as well as dozens of other members in congress, upon leaving political office become well paid “consultants” and lobbyists getting Buy Xanax Online multi-million dollar salaries from these legalized drug dealers.
To make matters worse, according to a study published in 2004 in the British Medical Journal, “…only 6 percent of drug advertising material is supported by scientific evidence. Therefore, most of what you read about a drug is pure fiction and doesn’t help a person make an informed choice about what they are taking, what it will do and how it may harm them. Drug companies are making claims based on lies.” It went on further to say, “High amount of misinformation puts patients health at risk” because “doctors tend to base their decisions on the information and advertising material sent out by the drug companies.” In truth, your doctor is really no more well-informed than you and you are putting your life in his or her hands. Is it any wonder that Americans consume nearly 40% of all pharmaceutical products sold worldwide? Let’s face it, we are a nation of junkies and each generation is becoming more and more brain washed into thinking that the answer to every problem, physical or mental, is a drug.