Author W. David McCoy puts a personal perspective on how medication deteriorates health.
'Recently my mother, 94, lay slowly dying. She was skeletal, feeble, disoriented, delusional and agitated, and she slept fitfully. She took water by medicine dropper and refused all food. Helpful, caring hospice and health care workers attended her in my brother's house around the clock.
Three days later, although still occasionally confused, she sat at the kitchen table requesting pancakes for breakfast and making sharp-witted remarks. Two weeks later, her mental condition and energy level were essentially normal for the first time in years. A month later, her weight was normal.
How did this miracle occur? That isn't the first question to ask. Instead, it is ''How did a bright, happy, energetic, elderly woman get in such bad shape?'' The answer is drugs.'
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