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The Future of Drugs

Chiropractors have noted the public's ever-increasing interest in natural health care as an alternative to drugs and surgery. This trend has been growing for years. Consider this comment made a decade and a half ago by futurist Clement Bezold, PhD:

"The growing holistic health movement, which is based on the value of preventative or promotive health care, raises major questions about the assumptions underlying conventional medicine including drug therapy."
SOURCE: The Future of Pharmaceuticals, Bezold, C., PhD. John Wiley & Sons, 1981.
October 1996
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