Is there a safer way? by Len Saputo, MD
Too many pharmaceuticals just aren't safe. The shocking truth is that drug complications are the third leading cause of death in America! Only heart disease and cancer cause more deaths than our pharmaceutical armamentareum! How necessary is it to use drugs that can cause problems serious enough to put you in the hospital, cause permanent disability, or even kill you? The April 15, 1998 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, contains a revealing article authored by Jason Lazarou, et al, that exposes the magnitude and seriousness of "adverse drug reactions" in US hospitals. (1) These authors evaluated 39 prospective studies between 1966 and 1996 that assessed these issues. They didn't include errors in drug administration, non-compliance, or "possible" adverse reactions. Their goal was to identify those complications that were solely related to the use of drugs as recommended by the manufacturer.
What they discovered was shocking! The overall incidence of hospitalizations related to adverse drug reactions was 6.7%, and the associated death rate, 0.32%. This translates into 2.2 million serious drug reactions, and 106,000 deaths every year in America, at an estimated cost of as much as $4 billion per year.(2, 3)
When this data is combined with previous studies that document the impact of errors in drug administration, these numbers more than double. Now, we are looking at over 5 million serious complications of pharmaceuticals, and over 200,000 deaths every year in the US. Based on misinformation in excess of 15% of all hospitalizations are the result of complications of drugs even more frightening it means that there is more than one death for every 145 hospitalizations in the US that is related to the drug therapy that is supposed to be saving our lives.
We all know that's many lives are saved because of pharmaceutical drugs. in view of the JAMA article, the question we should now be asking ourselves is, "Are there natural alternatives that are effective and safe, that should be considered before turning to unnatural (synthetic) pharmaceuticals that have been shown to cause serious disabilities or even kill us?"
The American public is going back to the future, as it is rediscovering what the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, proposed 2500 years ago: "Let food be our medicine, and medicine be our food."
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