Americans need to be aware of the negative affects of pharmaceutical drugs and how the drug companies are using our lack of knowledge to their advantage.

The goal of the medical society is to cure people and to make money doing it. At times the focus may be on the latter. A substantial amount of doctors are recommending short-term answers, through medication or surgeries that will adversely affect the patient in the future.



The only way for medical companies to make money is to produce pharmaceutical drugs at the lowest possible cost, sell it at the highest possible price and sell as many as possible.

The medical price increase can be compared to having a cut on the hand and putting a Band-Aid on it. The person’s hand will get wet and the band-aid will need to be replaced.

The medical companies are giving people medication that does not cure them, just keeps the problem covered up for awhile. Then they will come back and pay for more medication.

It comes down to the companies focusing more on making money than helping cure sick people.

We as a society favor the quick-fix way of life. We want the aspirin to kill our head-ache, we want the surgery to make us feel better; we want the maximum possible results with the minimal amount of effort and energy.

Our society doesn’t want to know the truth that this perspective doesn’t work until we personally have been affected.



Take for example cigarettes.Two factors kept the public unaware of the dangers cigarettes created. First, drug companies blatantly lied for years about how additive nicotine is and how harmful cigarettes are to the human body.

They generated false lab tests that showed nothing came of the trendy objects except they made a person fashionable.

Second, the general public didn’t want to know the consequences of cigarettes.

They wanted to hear what made them feel good about their actions. They were only ready to search for the truth when it became increasingly obvious that loved ones were dying from cigarette-related health problems.

The same can be said about modern medicine and the drug companies that produce it. They deliberately lied about the grave consequences of consuming their pharmaceutical drugs or under-going their treatments. The companies do everything they can to hide the long term side effects.



Take the case recently where pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. was found guilty of killing 59-year-old Robert Ernest with its popular painkiller Vioxx.

The company went so far as to deny in court that it was a fatal Vioxx-induced heart attack, saying rather that it was a clogged artery that killed Ernest. The company has to pay Ernest’s widow 253 million dollars in damages and still plan to appeal.

All this time the public unquestionably inhaled gradually fatal drugs, putting their faith in the doctors that recommended them. Now that people are dying, everyone is willing to listen because it may personally affect them.

The Vioxx drug was consumed by more than 20 million people before it was taken off the shelf. It will soon be affecting a lot of people. And that was just one drug.

There are millions more that no one has yet giving a second thought to.

It all comes back to the money.

Drug companies can’t put a patent on natural cures or herbal remedies. There is no way they can make a profit from natural cures. Therefore, they don’t encourage them as an answer.

It is our responsibility as individuals in the American society to choose whether we are going to be ignorant to the substances we

put in our body.



We as a society need to become more aware of the consequences that result from consuming pharmaceutical drugs before more people are negatively impacted.