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This CNN piece just confirms what many of us already know. Over-medication is a serious health issue. Unscrupulous drug manufacturers (also known as "Big Pharma")[1] are making up diseases and then using slick marketing techniques to compel you to buy the drugs they have concocted to "treat" the bogus disease,[2] which only leads to more ill-health.
Another variation of over-medication is what I call "dumping." Dumping consists of exploiting vulnerable people, say elders on Medicaid. The doctor or several doctors (Medicaid patients often get bounced around to different doctors) will simply prescribe far more drugs than a patient needs.
I have experienced "dumping" first hand. Several years ago I discovered that an elder neighbor had accumulated something like 36 bottles of drugs--17 different prescriptions. The details are fuzzy now but I am pretty sure he was taking all or most of the prescriptions. If I recall correctly, I was able to get the doctor to reduce the meds to 8, (4 for blood pressure). But all of this is just scratching the surface--just a few of the many examples of how capitalism-run-amok is killing us.
Oh, and a missing piece to the CNN story is the collusion of medical doctors. [3][4] GI
How to brand a disease -- and sell a cure - CNN.com
Quoting from CNN:
Just as Bernays sold pianos by selling the music room, pharmaceutical marketers now sell drugs by selling the diseases that they treat. The buzzword is "disease branding."
read essay @ How to brand a disease -- and sell a cure - CNN.com
[1] The Fear of Sicko (Democracy Now featuring Michael Moore)
[2] The Disease Mongering Machine
[3] Harvard Medical School in Ethics Quandary
[4] Brooklyn Arrests Are Part of "Largest Medicare Fraud Bust Ever"
Also dig:
- How to eat to live by Elijah Muhammad
- Elijah Muhammad vs. the Pig
- African Holistic Health by Llaila Afrika
- Intentional infections in Guatemala
- Plastic surgery gaining acceptance in the African-American community
- Lobbyist swarm capitol to influence health reform
- Medical Apartheid
tags: health, health care, elijah muhammad, nation of islam, how to eat to live, conspiracy, capitalism
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