Are Medicinal Drugs Safe For You and Your Family?
The truth is that even the so-called “safe” medicinal drugs aren’t totally harmless. In an average twelve-month period, more than 1.5 million hospitalized people suffer from the side effects of the medicinal drugs and therapy they receive there. Aspirin alone sends about 1,600 people to the hospital each year who die from gastric bleeding. Drug interaction also creates a serious problem. Some individual medicinal drugs may be relatively benign, but taken together they can be deadly. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the average American senior citizen is given more than fifteen prescriptions each year. Sometimes, these come from doctors who aren’t aware of the other medications the patient may be taking, and that could lead to tragedy if the drugs cause a toxic reaction.
Why is the medicinal drug situation out of hand? We know that in the U.S., the medical doctors are part of the problem because they write 1.6 billion medicinal drug prescriptions each and every year. In seventy-five percent of all office visits to a M.D., medicinal drugs are prescribed.
A great deal of blame falls to the multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry, which spends more than $10 billion each year . . . to market its products. That’s much more money than what’s spent by the industry to research the safety of taking these medicinal drugs. If the tranquilizer, Prozac, is a reasonable alternative to dealing with problems, how much of a reach is it to use marijuana or cocaine or worse?
But patients have to shoulder part of the blame also. B. J. Palmer said, “All the drugs in the world cannot adjust or align a subluxated vertebrae.” Even so, patients seldom question their doctors and rarely request drug-free care, probably because most want a quick fix rather than a slower, more sensible approach to health. And when they do make requests, those requests are often inaccurate; for example, asking for an antibiotic—medication that treats only bacterial infections—to treat a viral infection. Doctors shouldn’t cater to such requests, but they’ve been known to do so for the sake of avoiding a conflict if patients pressure them enough. Patients should absolutely know what’s going on with their bodies and understand their options, but also understand that self-diagnosis and arbitrary alteration of prescribed dosages can be extremely dangerous.
Whether you want to believe this or not, whether you agree or not, adults design the paradigms. It’s the pattern we set that our kids follow. The next time you pop medicinal drugs, stop and consider what you’re telling your children without saying a word.
“Loss of life does not come from chiropractic adjustments; wish that we could say as much for surgical operations.” – B. J. Palmer, D.C.
Dr. Scott Cabazolo
(540) 622-6400
112 E 6th Street
Front Royal, VA 22630
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