Over the past few weeks, three more reports have surfaced that further reveal the "cancer" that is slowing taking its toll on medicine:
The drug companies have an apparently uncontested influence on the studies that are published regarding their products, and are obviously influencing over half of the people trusted by the FDA to approve the drugs they are selling.
Furthermore, even without drug-company influence, clinical trials on prescription drugs have serious problems that even they apparently don't know about - problems that may reduce the reported frequency of side effects. According to the Chest study:
The participants of drug research studies frequently don't take the drugs according to the requirements of those studies; this is often completely unnoticed by the investigators; and there is probably no way to know how much of this has happened in most studies.
We're left with a rather uncomfortable scenario: The drugs being taken by the American public are tested in biased studies which include people who don't take the drugs as required, and these drugs are then approved by people with financial interests, working for a federal agency that apparently condones or accepts their conflicts of interest.
Take into account also that the drug companies spend "$8,000 to $13,000 per year on each physician"3 in an effort to influence their prescribing habits. So now we have financially encouraged MDs relying on biased research (with participants that may not have even taken the drug) when prescibing drugs and trusting FDA approval by people financially tied to the drug companies.
Given the current status of pharmaceutical control, it isn't hard to understand why drugs are so risky and should be considered a last recourse, if considered at all. It is no wonder that many in the U.S. and around the world are losing trust in the drug manufacturers and turning toward chiropractic and other forms of alternative care.
And while the temptation may be, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em," it should be obvious that this pharmaceutical house of cards can only lead to more mistrust by the public and a greater desire to seek the benefits of chiropractic and a "wellness" lifestyle.
The best thing to do: stand for what you are - a beacon of light cutting through the fog of pharmaceutical greed and deception.
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