Overmedication: Are Americans Taking Too Many Drugs?

Yes most folks take too many medications. when you give your doctor a complaint, his first impulse is to give you a drug for it. Then with complications, you need another, and side effects from that and you need another. First their sole purpose is to find out why you are having the symptoms and how to eliminate them without drugs. The big Pharmacies have brain washed the doctors into thinking that drugs are the cure all. Look at the billions they make on statins. Now they want to put children on blood pressure meds to prevent hypertension????? Paleeze!!! They want us on drugs from cradle to grave. They have pushed to lower the normal blood pressure so more folks can go on medication, they have pushed to lower cholesterol so more folks can be medicated. Where does it stop????? Please people do your own research and see that we don't need all these drugs. Yes there have been advances, however the FDA does not work for us. It is in cohoots with the big pharmacies.

Carol Gacioch RN RHIA of NC 11:01AM March 17, 2011

I have been in the health care field for over 50 years. yes there have been advances in medical care and medications, however the FDA is a fraud and the drug companies have their hands in the back pockets of the legislature. Do you know that years ago a drug company could have a monopoly on a drug for only a few years. After that anyone could copy the drug. So they needed to make their money early. Now they just petition the legislature for more time to keep a monopoly and they can extend it for 30 years!!!! Big Pharma needs to be monitored and controlled. They make the rules, they do the tests, and they print their own results. Of course they will be favorable!!Mean while, the average blood pressure has been lowered so more folks can be put on medications, the blood glucose level which used to be normal is now glucose intolerant. Cholesterol which use to be normal is now needing statins. We are controlled by them and I for one am tired of it. I refuse to take vaccinations, statins and hypertensive drugs and i do not accept fluoride treatments. My doc is not too happy but I am maintaining by herbal supplements and not doing more damage to my body. I have started acupuncture which I know will help. Just don't take what the doc says, do your own research. Do you know they are trying to do research on 5-8 year olds and if their blood pressure isn't' what they think it should be they want to start them on meds!!! Their goal is cradle to grave medications to keep the drug companies in luxury. Take charge of your own body folks. Look at the money they make on chemo drugs. There is a cure for Cancer but it would put the drug companies and loads of docs and nurses and medical centers out of business. They came out for a cure for TB and look what it did to the medical community. They won't do that againl

Carol Gacioch RN RHIA of NC 12:11PM October 30, 2010

what a crass cabal against drugs. if were going to achiece the best iteration of ourselves, we need to splurge on the very thing that evolution allowed us to come across, DRUGS. To not indulge in their largesse potential they offer, would be to waste our evolutionary advantage over other now menial species, but catching up ever so quickly, like the ant; strength in numbers as they demonstrate. Theres a constant alchemy amidst our brain chemistry but in order to reach that pinnacle, we must pop those pills!! Even if we dont need them

kevin of TX 1:53PM October 23, 2010

Finally, Dr. Mitchell, an honest doctor who will tell us what is truly going on in this country. There are very few doctors such as you, who lay people can trust. The only way we can get this issue turned around is for people to use alternative healing methods instead of medical doctors - only then will the medical schools change their tune.

Ann of IA 1:15PM October 21, 2010