New Diet Drug Trades Brain Damage for Minimal Weight Loss

How much risk is acceptable in the attempt to lose weight? The FDA seems to believe that there’s virtually no limit, not even a very large risk of brain damage, among many other adverse effects, from the new drug Qsymia.

'The latest entry into the prescription weight-loss drug market,
Qsymia^®, is a combination of two dangerous drugs, one of which, topiramate (Topamax brand name), is known to cause brain damage. Perhaps it’s worth that risk in the population for which it was originally designed: epileptics.

 However, taking topiramate as a diet aid means taking the gamble that a little weight loss won’t also result in nerve damage, vision damage, nervousness, speech damage, inability to concentrate, loss of control over body movements, or any of many other indications of brain damage.'


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One Nation Under Drugs: How the FDA Is Sabotaging Your Health and the Environment

'As a medicinal chemist, I tried to ignore my suspicion that an insidious and deliberate conspiracy to get each and every American hooked on drugs, while at the same time bankrupting them, existed between Big Pharma and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

I enjoyed my work. Drug design paid well and kept me comfortably isolated in a high-tech lab, fully equipped to help me bend and twist matter at will. The last thing I wanted to think of was a plot designed to sabotage health and wealth—while causing untold ecological damage—using my chemistry skills. But over time, experience confirmed my suspicion as fact and revealed something even scarier.'

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Taking Two Heart Drugs Triples Risk of Hospitalization from Falls in Adults Aged 25-59

'Adults in the prime of life are three times more likely to end up hospitalized or dead from accidental falls if they take two or more drugs to lower blood pressure or cholesterol. Researchers investigated potential causes of serious falls in adults aged 25-59, with the finding that taking one or more prescription drugs is a significant risk factor in serious injuries from falling.'

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4 Creepy Ways Big Pharma Peddles its Drugs

 

 'Big Pharma uses ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and sell diseases to adults and their children.

It's no secret that advertising works. Big Pharma wouldn't spend over $4 billion a year on direct-to-consumer advertising if it didn't mean massive profits.

What is more unknown is why drug ads that sow hypochondria, raise health fears and "sell" diseases are often the most common - and effective - even when the drugs themselves are of questionable safety.'


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A Drug As Scary As Halloween; Blockbuster Drug Causes Cancer, Tuberculosis And Lethal Infections

 

'How did Abbott Laboratories' Humira become an $8 billion a year drug, capable of anchoring an entirely new drug company as Abbott splits into two? 

How did it become a blockbuster even though such drugs (which include Remicade, Enbrel and Cimzia and are called TNF blockers) are linked to TB, rare cancers and lethal infections like histoplasmosis?

How did it become a blockbuster even though Humira is only approved for the rare conditions of rheumatoid arthritis,   juvenile idiopathic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis adults, Crohn's disease, psoriatic arthritis and chronic plaque psoriasis?

The same way all expensive, dangerous drugs become blockbusters: an easy touch FDA, bought doctors and doctor groups, PR firms to establish diseases as "public health threats" and massive direct-to-consumer advertising!'

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Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in U.S., data show

 

'Fueling the surge in deaths are prescription pain and anxiety drugs that are potent, highly addictive and especially dangerous when combined with one another or with other drugs or alcohol. Among the most commonly abused are OxyContin, Vicodin, Xanax and Soma. One relative newcomer to the scene is Fentanyl, a painkiller that comes in the form of patches and lollipops and is 100 times more powerful than morphine.

Such drugs now cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.'

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Depression Breakthrough: A Proven "Better Than Drugs" Solution with Positive Side Effects

 By Dr. Mercola

'Today’s Approach to Mental Health = Drugs So what happened between 1974 and today to make the prognosis of depression go from one with a positive outcome to one that essentially disables you for life? You don’t need a medical degree to figure it out. Just turn on your TV, and what do you see? Advertisements that all but hypnotize you into believing that this drug or that will help you feel better – especially if it turns out that you’re one of the two-thirds of people on antidepressants who aren’t getting better. 

'As Whitaker points out in his interview with me, that’s the Abilify ad, which basically is telling you to step up onto the next rung on the psychiatric drug ladder and add an antipsychotic drug, because what they’re giving you on the lower rung – antidepressants – don’t work. In his research, Whitaker has conclusively shown that in most cases these drugs work no better than a placebo – and can also have serious side effects, including causing even more serious mental disorders than the one you’re being treated for!' 

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