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04/13/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Antidepressants the new OPIOIDS? Tens of millions of Americans are taking them, and many can’t quit

According to CDC statistics, more than 64,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose in 2016. As severe as it is, the opioid epidemic isn’t the only prescription drug problem plaguing America. Americans of all ages and walks of life are suffering from an anti-depressant crisis. Once started on prescription opioids or anti-depressants, many patients find relief from their symptoms […]

04/09/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Pharma drug side effects add nearly half a TRILLION dollars to U.S. health care costs each year

The never-ending cycle of side effects and adverse reactions that come from pharmaceutical drugs adds nearly half a trillion dollars to U.S. health care costs annually. A team of researchers from the University of California San Diego computed the true costs of pharmaceutical drugs. The real reason health insurance and medical care is so expensive […]

03/08/2018 / By Lance D Johnson

Major side effects from popular medicines: Beta-blockers and painkillers found to double risk of stroke

Every two seconds, someone somewhere is having a stroke, and the cause isn’t always what you’re told. A stroke is when the blood supply to part of your brain is interrupted or reduced, depriving brain tissue of oxygen and nutrients. Most strokes (80 percent) that occur are ischemic strokes, where the arteries leading to the brain […]

11/25/2017 / By Lance D Johnson

FDA’s recent attack on Kratom based on lies and junk science, warns herbal group

“The thing that bugs me is that the people think the FDA is protecting them – it isn’t. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it’s doing are as different as night and day.” These are the words of Dr. Herbert L. Ley Jr., spoken in an interview with the New York […]

11/24/2017 / By Lance D Johnson

Dangerous medicine: America’s opioid epidemic isn’t the only prescription drug-based crisis killing hundreds of thousands

By now, you may have heard that the U.S. is experiencing an opioid epidemic. The number of Americans who overdose on opioids has quadrupled since 1999. More than 500,000 people have died from opioid overdoses from 2010 to 2015. President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency in 2017 as CDC numbers reveal […]

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