Pharma companies ‘getting away with murder’ not just drug prices: leading cause of illness & death
Trump said drug companies are getting away with murder and he would
work to bring prices down. (WashPost) While murder suggests the intent
to kill, manslaughter--killing without malice or forethought, is more
true of our leading cause of illness and death, says Dr. Richard
Ruhling, a retired physician who was board-certified in internal
medicine and taught at Loma Linda University. He offers the following
information.
Pharma’s policy of donating to re-election campaigns of congress
has made it easy to persuade them to okay drug ads on TV. But it’s a
violation of biblical law that says,“Take no gift: for the gift blinds
the wise, and perverts the words of the righteous.” (Exodus 23) Why
should congress care? They accept the benefits and give drug companies
what they want, like Obamacare, written by ‘Big Pharma’ lobbyists and
likely to bring those companies $35 billion, mushrooming pharma market
value by 33% to $476 billion. (Google)
After congress approved drug ads, Adverse Drug Reactions were
reported to put 2.2 million in hospitals and 106,000 died, "making these
reactions between the fourth and sixth leading cause of death." Journal
of American Medical Assoc, 4-15-1998.
But how many died at home? 199,000 according to the Western Journal
of Medicine and that’s not all. For every death, milder reactions
caused 550 people to be sick enough to see their doctor, for every death
40 were sick enough to be put in the hospital and for every death, 15
were put in nursing homes—messed up for life? WJM, June 2000. This
brought the deaths to 305,000 per year and 8 million hospital
admissions.
"From 1998 through 2005, reported serious adverse drug events
increased 2.6-fold...fatal adverse drug events increased
2.7-fold..." Archives of Internal Medicine, Sep 10, 2007, p 1752. This
brings deaths to 823,500/year.
But if deaths increased 2.7 fold from 1998 to 2005, and those drug
ads continue, we could expect by 2017 deaths have increased
8-fold. Multiplying 305,000 deaths/year by 8, prescribed drugs are
killing 2.4 million people/year—and these are not old people in nursing
homes--most of them weren't even in the hospital.
Marcia Angell, MD, former editor of the New England Journal of
Medicine, in her book, The Truth About the Drug Companies, How They
Deceive Us, says they spent $400 million/year on Congress, but they must
find it worth it to “get away with murder.”
Medical textbooks are filled with disease of “unknown etiology.” If
they don’t know the cause, how can the drug be the cure? Sooner or
later the patient becomes toxic to the prescription and then there are
two problems instead of one, and often serious.
A little known fact is that drug companies don’t do long-term
studies. They don’t want to know those results. They also have clever
ways of massaging the data to report benefit that is questionable.
“In the widest sense of the word, pharmacology and toxicology are
one, and the art of medicine is to use these poisons beneficially.”
Drill’s Textbook of Pharmacology in Medicine, chapter 5, Mechanisms of
Drug Action.
A historic healing in the Bible by the pool of Bethesda where a
throng of people lay waiting for a troubling of the water when a
stampede might result in the first person into the pool to get healed.
The parallel to our time reminds us our pool of Bethesda. Our tax
dollars are pooled and Bethesda, Maryland is where drug research is
funded, and often a stampede that tramples many in a vain hope of a
cure. John 5.
The last call in the Bible is out of Babylon, that we “partake not
of her sins and receive not of her plagues…for by her sorceries [the
Greek word is pharmakeia] were all nations deceived.” Rev 18:4,23. If
people did not take drugs, but experimented with their foods by leaving
out some of their favorite foods that they may be abusing, they might
see some benefit--we are mostly a product of what we’ve eaten since
birth.
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