As Americans daily we hear ads from pharmaceutical companies about the various pharmaceuticals now available to us. We also hear about the many celebrities who die from them or abuse them. 40 percent of teens think abusing prescription painkillers is safer than abusing street drugs according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
"We are a pill-taking society", the DEA says. However one main reason for this was that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed direct to consumer advertising of pharmaceutical drugs on television, magazines, newspapers, billboards and other media. Because of this drug treatment programs like Narconon have seen a steady increase of people coming to them for drug rehabilitation for prescription drugs.
According to the DEA, an 80 percent increase in prescription drug abuse has occurred in the last six years, the more direct to consumer marketing of drugs has occurred, the more people there are on drugs. Reuters and the DEA report, more Americans are dying from prescription drug abuse than ever.
The New England Journal of Medicine notes direct-to-consumer advertising has a significant effect on demand for prescription drugs. However, Narconon explains that all drugs are poisons, the amount taken determines the effect. However, the ads leave us to believe that "asking our doctor", will give us proper guidance.
Yet the DEA clearly states, "You cannot predict the effect that a drug can have on you." And, the pharmaceutical authorities as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) tell us, "when drugs and vaccines are introduced into the marketplace, unanticipated side effects may become evident."
Narconon drug rehab programs have pointed out for years that drugs are a dead end road. On a temporary basis they may have some benefit, however, given the wide scale abuse of prescription drugs authorities clearly need to review the drug advertising laws.
How is it that the doctor is expected to know what the side effects in full are if the manufacturers don't know? The American people should not be the testing ground for prescription drugs.
Pharmaceutical companies know this and so include the inevitable lawsuits that will result from the side effects to their drugs as part of operating costs. GSK reports of their own company, "The Group is currently a defendant in a number of product liability lawsuits, including class actions, that involve substantial claims for damages related to the Group’s pharmaceutical products."
As a public service Narconon provides the truth about drugs. If you would like more information or know of someone who needs help in coming off of prescription drugs, call Narconon, the long standing experts in effective drug rehabilitation at 877-237-3307.
