Tag: Drugs

In A Sea Of Unhealthy Choices, Some Are Worse For You Than Others: Foods To Avoid At All Cost

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In A Sea Of Unhealthy Choices, Some Are Worse For You Than Others: Foods To Avoid At All Cost
Swimming In Unhealthy Food Choices, But Here Are Some Things To Avoid To Keep From Drowning It’s almost laughable how horrible for you the food is in a typical western diet. Or at least it would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic. You can’t drive down a main street in any U.S. town without being inundated with brightly colored signs advertising all manner of junk food–and that’s just the restaurants.… Read the rest

Frightening New Report: Malaria Drug May Cause Brain Damage That Mimics Symptoms of PTSD

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Frightening New Report: Malaria Drug May Cause Brain Damage That Mimics Symptoms of PTSD
Malaria and PTSD: How An Anti-Malarial Drug Might Be The Cause Of Many Soldiers’ PTSD Symptoms A frightening new case study has come to light on a military servicemember who was diagnosed with PTSD, but who is now thought to be suffering brain damage suffered as a result of an anti-malarial drug he was given. The implications for a thousands of soldiers similarly diagnosed after 9/11 could shake the military medical community to its very core.… Read the rest

Why Are You Pushing, Doc? Eight Reasons Your Doctor Insists On Giving Your Child Vaccines

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Why Are You Pushing, Doc? Eight Reasons Your Doctor Insists On Giving Your Child Vaccines
Some Common Reasons Your Doctor Pushes For Vaccines–And Some You May Not Know About We are taught from a young age to trust doctors. Like the images of friendly policemen and noble firemen, doctors are usually portrayed in our collective consciousness as kindly, benevolent characters who only went into medicine out a strong desire to help humanity. Unfortunately, while there are of course many doctors who fit this stereotype, they are just as human as the rest of us.… Read the rest

This Could Change Everything: How A New Study Might Overturn Everything We Thought We Knew About Opioids And Pain Management

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This Could Change Everything: How A New Study Might Overturn Everything We Thought We Knew About Opioids And Pain Management
Flipping The Script: How A New Study May Overturn Centuries Of Thought On Opioids And Pain Management Opioids have been used by humans in one form or another since literally the dawn of time, at least the dawn of recorded, human time. The poppy was known as a painkiller in ancient civilizations, with everyone from ancient Sumerians and Assyrians to ancient Egyptians, Romans and eventually Chinese at one time or another taking part in using the opium poppy for recreational as well as pain relief purposes.… Read the rest

Looking For Drugs In All The Wrong Places: Survey Finds 100 Percent Of Streams And Waterways Tested Contain Pharmaceuticals

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Looking For Drugs In All The Wrong Places: Survey Finds 100 Percent Of Streams And Waterways Tested Contain Pharmaceuticals
Hey Drug Warriors, You’re Looking In The Wrong Places: Pharmaceuticals Found In 100 Percent Of US Streams Tested Remember in old cartoons and sitcoms how hapless fishermen would sometimes haul up an old boot from the depths of a stream or lake to symbolize his or her ineptitude and the filthiness of their fishing holes? Always good for a laugh on Saturday morning cartoons.… Read the rest

Alarming New Study Concludes That Antidepressants Are Ineffective For Children And Adolescents, Possibly Even Harmful

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Alarming New Study Concludes That Antidepressants Are Ineffective For Children And Adolescents, Possibly Even Harmful
Depressing News: Antidepressants May Not Be Effective On Children And Teens, Possibly Even Harmful It always seems like these days we have to make horrendous, widespread mistakes affecting millions of people before we wake up and figure out the harm we are doing: fracking, glyphosate, and Iraq are just a few examples. These may seem like diverse and unrelated situations, but the pattern holds true: we are sold a bill of goods by slick marketing people assuring us that they and only they possess the sure-fire, can’t-miss cure-all for what ails us.… Read the rest

Former CDC Head Cashes Out A Cool $2 Million In Pharma Stock–After Approving Merck’s Gardasil On Her Watch

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Former CDC Head Cashes Out A Cool $2 Million In Pharma Stock–After Approving Merck’s Gardasil On Her Watch
And Behind Revolving Door Number One–Former CDC Head Cashes In A Cool $2 Million of Merck Stock After Approving Gardasil You Can Say NO to Vaccine Mandates Here: http://TinyURL.com/VaccinationISViolation Some stories just write themselves: Child Celebrity In Trouble With The Law Government Lies Pious Politician/Preacher Caught Cheating On His Wife With Mistress/Male Prostitute/Farm Animal. And then there’s this one: Corrupt Public Official Cashes In On Government Post After Tenure Ends, Taking Lucrative Job In The Private Sector.… Read the rest

You Don’t Need To Be A Genius To Realize That Giving Toddlers Mind-Altering Drugs is a Terrible Idea–So Why Are Doctors Doing Just That?

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You Don’t Need To Be A Genius To Realize That Giving Toddlers Mind-Altering Drugs is a Terrible Idea–So Why Are Doctors Doing Just That?
Who On Earth Would Give Mind-Blowing Drugs To A Toddler? A Criminal–Or A Doctor It used to be that, when you were a little kid and you got dragged to the doctor, you at least knew you would walk out of there with a lollipop. No matter how horrible the rest of the experience was, at least you had that going for you.… Read the rest

New study shows that ADHD diagnoses are exaggerated

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New study shows that ADHD diagnoses are exaggerated
Children should be seen, not heard. It’s an old saying, but it speaks volumes about western attitudes toward children. They are often seen as noisy, annoying, impetuous creatures, somehow alien to ourselves and our own experience, despite the fact that we all indisputably were once kids ourselves. It’s also these attitudes that undoubtedly have helped lead to what some are saying is the massive over-diagnosis of ADHD, or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.… Read the rest