I wrote:
> the...report from JAMA showing PRESCRIPTION DRUGS...
That should read, "doctor-prescribed drugs," which would include conventional over-the-counter meds. Much more:
From a University of North Carolina webpage [1] we learn that "Approximately 8% of all hospital admissions in the U.S. are due to adverse reactions to synthetic drugs," which comes to "a minimum of 2,000,000" people. So not only do over 2 million suffer adverse effects from drugs in hospitals, of which 100,000 will come out dead, but around 2 million people are going into hospitals due to adverse reactions to conventional, synthetic drugs. The cited UNC page goes on to say that:
"...at least three times as many people are killed
in the U.S. by pharmaceutical drugs as are killed
by drunken drivers. Thousands die each year from
supposedly 'safe' over-the-counter remedies. Deaths
or hospitalizations due to herbs are so rare that
they're hard to find. The U.S. National Poison
Control Centers does not even have a category in
their database for adverse reactions to herbs."
"Similar figures apply in the United Kingdom, and
even hepatoxicity, where perhaps the strongest
case against some herbs lies, the statistics are
horrendously clear - over 80% of cases of fulminant
hepatic failure presenting for liver transplant (or
death) over ten years in the UK were due to poison-
ing by freely available OTC non-prescription NSAID's,
such as paracetomol and aspirin. Not one case was
due to ingestion of medicinal herbs."
The Life Extension Foundation [2] reports that "FDA approved nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs kill about 75,000 Americans a year," which should include both prescription and over-the-counter nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Many of those deaths are caused by internal bleeding. Yet in the media today you'll be hearing much more about the few cases of people getting a sick-stomach from herbs than the millions made ill and tens of thousands killed by FDAapproved drugs. The obvious reason for the great concern over the minuscule and disregard for mass death is that the minuscule problem (herb side effects) is a part of an area (alternative medicine) that many want to be brought into government control; thus an effective pretext for building public support for such control is to promote through the media a state of herb-panic.
Find out more about the Global efforts
to make herbs and vitamins drugs:
Advocates for Health Freedom: http://www.iahf.com
Doctor Rath's Website: http://www.rath.nl
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[1] http://sunsite.unc.edu/herbmed/mediher5.html
[2] http://lef.org/magazine/mag95/july95_offshore.html
IAN GODDARD'S ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN JOURNAL
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http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm
- the critics are raving -
"Shouldn't this be expunged?...[since]
it is spreading fear and suspicion of the
government." Lesly Sthal (CBS - 60 Minutes)
Call the police! Newsday reports that "another
site linked to Goddard's" is linked to another
site that "pictures a woman's bare derrierre."
BTW, I'm still (drool) looking for that site
On CNN, a Federal official said Goddard's
TWA 800 inquiry has caused "real damage."
ergo: stopping Goddard = damage control
GIVING THE BIG LIE A BLACK EYE WITH
THE FIST OF ANALYTICAL INQUIRY
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IAN GODDARD'S ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN JOURNAL
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http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm