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Ilena Rose

2005-07-29, 5:56 pm

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Here’s some fascinating news in the world of medicine that really
shows the drug racket -- the huge prescription drug scam taking place
in this country today. Researchers sent a group of people, who said
they saw the drug Paxil in a TV advertisement, into doctors’ offices.
Many of these patients didn't even show signs of depression, but when
they named the drug, 50 percent were diagnosed as having depression,
and 55 percent were given a prescription for the exact prescription
drug they named.
In fact, it turns out that when people named Paxil, they were more
than five times as likely to be given a prescription for it than
someone who didn't name it. This simple experiment demonstrates how
many doctors are puppets of the pharmaceutical industry; they're
glorified drug dealers.

I've been saying this for years, as have many others in the natural
health community, but now this experiment clearly demonstrates it.
Medical doctors claim to be scientifically trained. They claim to be
rational people. They say that everything's a formula, so people are
only given prescriptions that are medically necessary. But when a
patient comes in and mentions the name of a drug, all that rationality
and all that so-called scientific thinking gets thrown out the window.
Over half the time, the doctor's just going to write out a
prescription for the exact drug that the patient named, whether or not
it is medically necessary.

In other words, the whole system of prescription drugs and using
doctors is a giant con. When pharmaceutical companies run these
advertisements directly to consumers, they know these consumers are
going to go to their doctor and name the drug, resulting in a sale of
that drug. And that's why direct-to-consumer advertising -- drug
advertising on television, magazines, and so on -- remains legal. It
was illegal, but the FDA legalized it in 1997 to generate profits for
the drug companies that the FDA seems sworn to protect. Since then,
the drug industry and prescriptions have boomed. Now we have more than
40 percent of the population on prescriptions, nearly all of which are
medically unnecessary.

Prescription drugs by themselves are a giant sham, because none of
them treat the underlying causes of ill health. They only mask the
symptoms of disease, or try to interfere with the body's basic
biochemistry. And the real story on these prescription drugs isn't
being told, because these pharmaceutical companies are funding
billions and billions of dollars each year in media advertising.
They're controlling the budgets of these media companies by running so
many ads. Because of this, the media companies out there don't want to
say anything bad about these prescription drugs. continues on page 2
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Jeff

2005-07-30, 8:54 am

"Ilena Rose" <ilena.rose@geemail.com> wrote in message
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> Here's some fascinating news in the world of medicine that really
> shows the drug racket -- the huge prescription drug scam taking place
> in this country today. Researchers sent a group of people, who said
> they saw the drug Paxil in a TV advertisement, into doctors' offices.
> Many of these patients didn't even show signs of depression, but when
> they named the drug, 50 percent were diagnosed as having depression,
> and 55 percent were given a prescription for the exact prescription
> drug they named.
> In fact, it turns out that when people named Paxil, they were more
> than five times as likely to be given a prescription for it than
> someone who didn't name it. This simple experiment demonstrates how
> many doctors are puppets of the pharmaceutical industry; they're
> glorified drug dealers.

Here is another article on the subject:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050730/bob10.asp

While I do agree that there is a HUGE problem with the way drugs are
advertised to doctors and patients, I don't think doctors are the puppets of
the drug companies. I am quite sure that the doctors are not puppets of the
drug industry. Very few doctors will prescribe chemotherapy to someone who
does not have cancer, for example.

> I've been saying this for years, as have many others in the natural
> health community, but now this experiment clearly demonstrates it.

No, it clearly demostrates that the government should step in and regulate
the way drugs are marketed.

> Medical doctors claim to be scientifically trained. They claim to be
> rational people. They say that everything's a formula, so people are
> only given prescriptions that are medically necessary. But when a
> patient comes in and mentions the name of a drug, all that rationality
> and all that so-called scientific thinking gets thrown out the window.

What big thing are not mentioning is that all the patients had symptoms of
despression. A prescription for an antidepressent was appropriate.

> Over half the time, the doctor's just going to write out a
> prescription for the exact drug that the patient named, whether or not
> it is medically necessary.

Incorrect. In the experiment, the patients had symptoms of depression.

> In other words, the whole system of prescription drugs and using
> doctors is a giant con. When pharmaceutical companies run these
> advertisements directly to consumers, they know these consumers are
> going to go to their doctor and name the drug, resulting in a sale of
> that drug. And that's why direct-to-consumer advertising -- drug
> advertising on television, magazines, and so on -- remains legal. It
> was illegal, but the FDA legalized it in 1997 to generate profits for
> the drug companies that the FDA seems sworn to protect. Since then,
> the drug industry and prescriptions have boomed. Now we have more than
> 40 percent of the population on prescriptions, nearly all of which are
> medically unnecessary.

Correct. Nearly all of the drugs that are prescribed are medically
nescessary.

> Prescription drugs by themselves are a giant sham, because none of
> them treat the underlying causes of ill health.

Antibiotics kill bacteria. Anitdepressents correct chemical imbalances.
Chemotherapy kills cancer cells.

> They only mask the
> symptoms of disease, or try to interfere with the body's basic
> biochemistry.

Please provide evidence that any alternative (conjecture-based) treatement
does any better.

> And the real story on these prescription drugs isn't
> being told, because these pharmaceutical companies are funding
> billions and billions of dollars each year in media advertising.
> They're controlling the budgets of these media companies by running so
> many ads. Because of this, the media companies out there don't want to
> say anything bad about these prescription drugs. continues on page 2

Except that many stories about hormone replacement therapy and other
problems with drugs have been reported.

Jeff

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