Health authorities warn buying prescription drugs is dangerous, but only on the Internet

New research published in the August 12 issue of The Lancet has found that more patients are buying prescription drugs on the internet, which has led many conventional medical authorities to worry about the possible dangers of online drug purchases. Mainstream media outlets are reporting on the dangers of buying prescription drugs over the internet, but are simultaneously implying that buying prescription drugs at retail is therefore safe.

39 Health & Seniors Groups Call on Congress to End to DTC Prescription Drug Ads

Thirty-nine medical, health and seniors’ organizations are urging Congress to stop the advertising of prescription drugs to consumers, Commercial Alert and the National Women’s Health Network announced today.

200+ Medical School Professors Call for End to DTC Prescription Drug Ads

In a strong show of opposition to advertising for prescription drugs, 211 professors from U.S. medical schools endorsed a statement that “direct-to-consumer marketing of prescription drugs should be prohibited.”

Deaths From Accidental Prescription Drug Overdose on Rise in New Mexico

Accidental overdose deaths in New Mexico caused by prescription drugs increased at a higher rate than those caused by illegal drugs such as heroin and cocaine, according to a new study covering a 10-year period.

Prescription drug prices rise four times faster than inflation; biggest jump in six years

Two reports released by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) found that prices of brand-name prescription drugs in the United States rose nearly four times as fast as the inflation rate in the first quarter, while the prices of generic drugs remained unchanged.

Government's Medicare drug benefit program is an unmitigated disaster

Do you want to know what happens when a government that cares nothing about the people gets put in charge of administering a drug benefit program? You get an unmitigated disaster, and that's what we're seeing today with the Medicare prescription drug benefit program. This program, which is just legalized theft from one group of American taxpayers to another group of American consumers (mostly the elderly), originally promised to give people discounts on prescription drugs.

Big Pharma scare tactics: How the pharmaceutical industry influences American consumers

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, especially in this case. Lloyd Grove, a columnist for the New York Daily News, says that the pharmaceutical lobby in the United States, a group called PhRMA, actually commissioned the writing of a fiction novel designed to scare Americans into avoiding prescription drugs from Canada. The book was supposed to tell a story of terrorists who altered prescription drugs from Canada in order to kill Americans who were buying them over the internet or crossing the border to buy them at lower prices. Bizarre, huh? What an interesting tactic to try to convince people to pay sky-high prices -- monopoly prices, in fact -- for prescription drugs in the United States. But that's only part of this story.

NewsTarget survey results, part 2: Healthy actions = healthy results

This is part two of the NewsTarget survey results analysis, continuing with healthy actions and healthy results. Sixty-five point four percent of NewsTarget readers reported experiencing an improvement of their overall health. It shows the incredible power of information to change people's lives for the better. I don't know that any other publication or book can claim to help improve the health of almost two-thirds of its readers. In fact, I don't know of any prescription drug, surgical procedure or medical technology that can make that claim. This is an astonishing number, and I believe it goes to show the power of health freedom.

Shattering the false philosophy and junk science of conventional medicine

Have you ever wondered why pharmaceuticals don't work? By that, I mean that they don't make people healthier. Sure, some pharmaceuticals can modify a measurable chemical marker, but they don't make people healthier. We have 40 percent of the U.S. population on at least one prescription drug, yet our nation shows skyrocketing rates of all sorts of chronic diseases, like cancer, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and osteoporosis. If pharmaceuticals work to make people healthier, we should be the healthiest nation on the planet. We have people here taking more drugs than any other nation in the world. The older you get in this society, the more drugs you end up taking. Many of our senior citizens are on a dozen prescriptions a day, and half of those are usually prescribed to cover up symptoms and side effects from the first few prescriptions.

With Tysabri decision, the FDA declares no drug is too dangerous to be FDA approved

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency that claims to be responsible for protecting consumers from dangerous food and drug products, has just surrendered its primary responsibility. Recently, an FDA advisory panel voted to recommend that a dangerous prescription drug Tysabri, which was withdrawn from the market a year ago due to its promoting of a deadly brain disease, should now be put back on the market.