Sperm counts decrease while teen pregnancies rise. Are the ones that are left just working harder?
... should mention the Ms of people maimed or killed by FDA-approved drugs.
to be compared with the the how-many? maimed or killed by Schedule I marijuana.
Is there a beneficial drug on the planet?
acetylsalicylic acid comes to mind.
lol mother in' crickets.
a lot of drugs are beneficial, but they all have side effects, some debili ating, maiming, fatal.
TB
You do realize that solutions are often subs uting one set of issues with another, right?a lot of drugs are beneficial, but they all have side effects, some debili ating, maiming, fatal.
TB
lol simpleton.
Do you realize you're defending the corrupt BigPharma and FDA, right?
TB
No. I'm actually adding context to your talking point driven argument, such that it is.Do you realize you're defending the corrupt BigPharma and FDA, right?
TB
on point: There are many, if not the majority of drugs whose side effects are well known. These possible side effects are then weighed against against possible benefits. In the resultant cost/benefit analysis, sometimes the the possibility of side effects is lesser than the known positive effects of treatment. This results in a solution. A doctor will make this determination routinely, even against the backdrop of Big Pharma's caveats.
Your argument appears as : Drugs are bad because of side effects which, apparently, nobody knows about or ignores because FDA/Big Pharma uses a Jedi mind-trick on unsuspecting doctors.
Supporting your arguments are the cases of drugs which have had absurdly negative reactions. Yeah, they're out there. But, what does this subset represent within the context of all prescription medications?
Does the existence of this yet undefined subset require the vilification of the FDA and destruction of Big Pharma?
I can feel the "But if it costs one life!" argument emerging.
store never closes. there's no such thing as a necro bump: history is continuous.
recollection, not so much . . .
Prescription Drug Spending Per Senior 1992-2010
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Year Prescription Drug Expenditures per Senior(year)
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1992 $ 559
1994 $ 648
1996 $ 769
1998 $ 984
2000 $ 1,205
2005 $ 1,912
2010 $ 2,810
Number of Prescriptions for Seniors 1992-2010
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Year Number of Prescriptions per Senior
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1992 19.6
1994 20.7
1996 22.6
1998 26.5
2000 28.5
2005 34.4
2010 38.5
Number of Different Prescription Drugs Taken Daily
None 18%
1-2 36%
3-4 25%
5+ 21%
http://answers.google.com/answers/th...id/563761.html
The BigPharma propaganda has convinced, sumbliminally hypnotized Americans that popping pills is the solution for everything.
google "us military prescription drug abuse" to see how BigPharma and US military collaborate to pump the military fulls of $10Bs of pills.
America is so ed and un able.
On July 26, 2000, the Journal of the American Medical Association published Starfield's review, "Is US health really the best in the world?" Starfield revealed the following facts:
In the US, the annual death rate, as a direct result of medical treatment, is 225,000 people. Of those, 106,000 are killed by FDA-approved pharmaceutical drugs. The other 119,000 are killed by medical mistreatment in hospitals. This makes medically caused death the third leading cause of mortality in America.
In 2009, I interviewed Dr. Starfield.
http://jonrappoport.wordpress.com
She assured me that, since the publication of her review in 2000, no federal agency had contacted her to ask for help in fixing this unconscionable horror, and no agency had undertaken a significant program to reverse the third leading cause of death in the US.
Aside from the medically caused death rate, there is medical maiming. In 2001, the LA Times published a shocking article by Linda Marsa.
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/jan/08/health/he-9609
The article revealed that, in addition to the deaths, 2.1 million more people were admitted to US hospitals every year, as a result of severe reactions to pharmaceutical drugs. And, every year, there were 36 million adverse drug reactions in America.
http://www.naturalnews.com/z038249_c...n_Hopkins.html
"cost one life" TB
The right-wing : we want "conserve" the bad and make them worse! It's the right-wing philosophy!
lol strawman lol natural news. lol unsupported quotes. lol simpleton.
I can drink a bottle of grapefruit juice and put myself in the hospital within the hour due to the way it interacts with one of the medications I have to take.
So, yeah...lol unsupported stats.
Nobody is defending Big Pharma, dolt.
Just trying to place a little context into your breathlessly vacuous arguments which scream "Throw out the baby with the bathwater!".
the quotes have links
TB
I read the links, dolt. I know you didn't. There were no stats or studies anywhere.
lol simpleton.
You did notice that the LA Times link was broken, right?
ing moron.
But keep dodging/ignoring the salient points. It's what thinkprogress tells you to do.
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