Category Archives: PHARMACEU’TIC: A Spoonful of Sugar

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PHARMACEU’TIC

PHARMACEU’TICAL, adjective [Gr. to practice witchcraft or use medicine; poison or medicine.] Pertaining to the knowledge or art of pharmacy, or to the art of preparing medicines.

“A Spoonful of Sugar makes the medicine go down…” focuses on professionally administered and prescribed drugs and pharmaceuticals. Initially on conception this category was developed to deal with the aspect of the abuse of children, ie; Ritalin, Prozac and other legal, “Mood altering” drugs. As time went on – we chose to attack the poisons that we are ALL being fed by our medical ‘professionals.’ The overpriced products of BIG Pharma are slowly – or rapidly killing us.

Markle: READ The Deadly Truth About Aspartame (‘NutraSweet’-‘Equal’-‘Spoonful’, etc)

“…when they remove brain tumors, they have found high levels of aspartame in them”.

I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on “ASPARTAME marketed as ‘NutraSweet’, ‘Equal’, and ‘Spoonful”‘. In the keynote address by the EPA, they announced that there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus, and they did not understand what toxin was causing this to be rampant across the United States. I explained that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. Continue reading →

Many Doctors Don’t Report Incompetent Colleagues

One-third of those surveyed would decline to intervene

If your doctor had a drug problem or was impaired in some way, you would probably hope that his or her colleagues would intervene and see that he gets help. A new survey suggests that doesn’t happen very often.

A study in JAMA says a survey of physicians finds that while most support the professional commitment to report other physicians who they feel are incompetent or impaired — such as from alcohol or drug use — many did not follow through on making a report when faced with such a situation. Continue reading →

Aspartame: A Plague of Neurological Disease

Just some food for thought!

Ms. NANCY MARKLE wrote an article recently concerning the collusion between EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and Monsanto (one of the largest drug manufacturers in this country). Nancy had recently attended numerous meetings and hearings With the World Environmental Conference and the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation. These are her Words…  Continue reading →

Prescriptions for the dead!

Medicaid audit finds that prescriptions were filled for 1,800 dead patients

In Texas, a dead doctor “wrote” prescriptions for Medicaid recipients. Not to be outdone, pharmacies in Texas and four other states filled controlled-substance prescriptions for more than 1,800 dead Medicaid patients, according to a forensic audit by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Taxpayer dollars were also blown by Texas physicians who handed out narcotics prescriptions while lacking the authority to write them. And “doctor shopping” for drugs cost Medicaid $63 million over two years. Continue reading →

Ryter: The FDA’s Stealth War Against The Consumer

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The article below is admittedly long (it comes to twelve single spaced printed pages) but it is of EXTREME importance to the future health of you and your families. It is critical that you read and understand exactly what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is stealthily attempting to slip past your awareness. Unless this is stopped by the American people, your access to vitamins, minerals and other health products will be severely limited or eliminated altogether! Continue reading →

Smith: Gangsters in Medicine

The Journal of the American Medical Association recently reported that as many as 106,000 deaths occur annually in US hospitals due to adverse reactions to prescription drugs that are properly prescribed by physicians that use them as directed by the drug companies.

Even worse, the National Council for Patient Information and Education reported that an additional 125,000 deaths occur annually due to adverse reactions to drugs that the physician never should have prescribed. Continue reading →

Pelfrey: Out With the Bath Water!

A True story: As charge nurse on a locked adolescent psychiatric unit, my responsibilities included insuring unit safety as well as screening incoming calls. So I kept a vigilant eye on the hallway as I answered the incessantly ringing phone. A woman’s frantic voice shrieked into my ear, “What do I do? He’s choking the cat and I can’t get him to stop!” Continue reading →

Hawkins: Who Put The ‘Tame’ In Aspartame?

In 1994 the Republicans, having just taken over the House of Representatives for the first time in forty years, went to work tearing apart much of the socialist/liberal agenda. That folks was when we started to see herbs available in the market. It was also at that time that a businessman was finally allowed to write off the cost of his own health insurance. The democrat answer to that concept was to tax the benefits of those who had them rather than allow someone to write theirs off. Typical! Continue reading →

Big Brother: Coming Soon to a Health Store Near You!

One more step toward…

Forget terrorism for a minute, because right now it’s time to activate the level orange bureaucracy alert…

Last year, I wrote in Real Health about our government’s attempt to wrap their greedy tentacles around the supplement industry with a bill before Congress ironically monikered the “Dietary Supplement Fairness Act.” To refresh your memory (or bring you up to speed if you weren’t one of my readers back then), this bill ostensibly provided tax-based subsidization for vitamin and nutrient supplements – “nutraceuticals” by their nomenclature. Sounds good, right? Continue reading →

Ellison: What Is The FDA’s Mission Statement?

People want to trust that their so-called elected government is doing the right thing when it passes regulations to enhance public safety. When the Pure Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906 a new watchdog agency, The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), was born. It would be many years before we as a nation had such luxuries as refrigeration, sanitary food processing standards, and good manufacturing processes (GMP), so in many respects, this law was necessary. So, what exactly does the FDA do? Continue reading →

Ellison: Skeletons in the FDA’s Closet

It is time that the actions of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) speak for themselves and Americans began to question their own absorbent use and blind-loyalty to FDA approved drugs. If not, you too may become a FDA statistic. The FDA’s financial ties to “big-pharma” have caused millions of preventable deaths over the last 30 years.

In 1996-97 the FDA approved a drug known as Posicor (a chemical called mibefradil dihydrochloride) for the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension). Prior to approval, the data from the congestive heart failure trials presented at a FDA Advisory Committee meeting on Posicor showed that more patients treated with Posicor died than those taking a placebo!  Continue reading →

Bacteria are winning fight against drugs

Antibiotic resistance is increasing swiftly among the bacteria that cause meningitis, pneumonia, bloodstream infections, sinusitis and childhood ear infections, a new survey shows.

Researchers say that at the current rate of increase, more than 40 percent of all such infections will be resistant to at least two widely used antibiotics – penicillin and erythromycin – by the middle of next year. That’s up from about 9 percent in 1996. Continue reading →

Douglas: A big problem that’s only getting bigger…

Anyone with fully-grown kids will remember being made to watch Saturday morning cartoons. You know, those animated shows about super-heroes or even classic characters like Bugs Bunny and the Road Runner. They were fun, right? Real, quality time with the kids (or grandkids)…

But what you may not remember so well are all those ads for frosted breakfast cereals and sugary fruit punch drinks and fast-food restaurants that were crammed in between these shows. Continue reading →

Ellison: ADHD – Politics, Money, Or Science?

As a medicinal chemist I’ve had the opportunity to see a shockingly different side of Ritalin (Methylphenidate) and ADHD than the media exposes.

The Experimental Pharmacology Department of the American Cyanamid Company and the Merck Index report that Ritalin is no less toxic or safer than Amphetamine and Methamphetamine. They continue, by stating that upon administration of these drugs, motor activity decreases. Continue reading →

Blumenfeld: Can Ritalin Kill a Child?

On March 21, 2000, 14-year-old Matthew Smith dropped dead of a heart attack while skateboarding. The ninth-grader had been on Ritalin since the first grade. Lawrence Smith, father of the youngster, has testified that he and his wife were forced by Michigan Social Services to put their child on Ritalin or else be charged for neglecting their son’s educational and emotional needs.

“His last report card was his best,” says Lawrence Smith. “But it wasn’t worth it for us. Putting him on Ritalin was the worst decision I’ve ever made.” And that’s because no long-range study had been made of the effects of Ritalin on children who take it over a number of years. Continue reading →