Tag Archives: Big Pharma

There were over 28,000 Prince deaths last year.

Posted on August 23, 2016 by johnrachel

America is being medicated into a stupor. Television is a drug of sorts but that’s another topic. Kids of all ages are being medicated, painkillers and psychotropics (anti-depressants, anti-psychotics) are promoted with the same abandon as fast food, Pokemon Go and lingerie. We have a War on Drugs which is a running joke, an FDA in the pockets of Big Pharma, a 15-year war in Afghanistan which revived its poppy production and the country is now responsible for 90% of the world’s heroin. In the U.S., addiction is skyrocketing, deaths by overdose are skyrocketing, abuse of prescription drugs is skyrocketing, Big Pharma profits are skyrocketing. Isn’t there something wrong with this picture? Continue reading →

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Don’t call me crazy . . . just call me maybe!

Posted on October 16, 2015 by johnrachel

Life is full of both surprises and setbacks. We don’t usually have to seek them out. We certainly don’t have to buy over-priced medications to get kicked in the head. Continue reading →

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