Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher: God's Call to Loving Arms [Paperback]

Gwen Olsen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 31, 2005

The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate, even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives. We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety. But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market!

Gwen Olsen learned firsthand the danger that lurks in every American’s medicine cabinet, working in the pharmaceutical industry. But her most poignant education would come as a victim and, ultimately, as a survivor.

Rigorously researched and documented, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher: God’s Call to Loving Arms is a moving, human drama that illustrates the catastrophic consequences of a health care system run amuck!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Gwendolyn Leslie Olsen spent fifteen years as a sales rep in the pharmaceutical industry working for health care giants such as Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Gwen is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, son, dog, and five cats.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc. (August 31, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595357636
• ISBN-13: 978-0595357635
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #978,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exploring the Darkside of Mental Health, July 2, 2006

By 

Tom A. Braun "RPh & Medical Writer" (Mt. Prospect, Il.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher: God's Call to Loving Arms (Paperback)

Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher is an exploration into the dark side of mental illness. Gwen Olsen is brave enough and angry enough to welcome the reader into her world of emotional trauma caused by drugs, alcohol and genetics.

Gwen weaves her stories of personal tragedies and the use of prescription mind controlling drugs that she sold into a shocking review of how drugs are used not to cure, but to control those with emotional and social behavior problems without any real concern about the potential deadly side effects. Drug marketing trumps good medicine.

The impetus for an insider to reject a financially rewarding career in pharmaceutical sales is the fiery self-immolation death of her bright, beautiful and beloved niece. Megan.

Her extensive research into deadly events caused by mind altering prescription drugs brings into reality the gravity of the medical decision to prescribe a treatment routine that doesn't explore ways to reverse the medical condition.

The following quote by Dr. Candace Perth, the co-discover of the SSRI pathway which was the impetus for the creation of the multi-billion dollar SSRI class of mind altering drugs is a chilling statement.

"I am alarmed at the monster that John Hopkins neuroscientist, Solomon Synder and I created when we discovered the simple binding assay for drug receptors 25 years ago."

Anyone who is or has a loved one taking these prescription drugs will be compelled to read Gwen's Saga and detailed investigation into this twilight world of drugging.

Only by knowing the truth can we change course and improve the quality of healthcare in the United States. Gwen helps us focus on a critical area of needed improvement and pleads for us to save our children from drugging.

Thomas Braun RPh

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Illegal or legal brain targeting drugs do what drugs do: they usurp life., November 2, 2006

By 

Clover Smith "Clover Smith-Greene" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher: God's Call to Loving Arms (Paperback)

This book is filled with beauty, passion, science, conscience, dedication.
. . and some inspiring poetry. Gwen Olsen has the work ethic that success
in life is made of: get a college degree, get a well paying job, work
hard. She also has the beauty and manners that attracts confidence. After
college she was hired as a drug representative to sell new drugs to
doctors. She won selling awards and was hired by leading drug
companies. But she also has a conscience. She quit her "drug pushing to
doctors" job and soon after, her niece, also a beautiful girl inside and
out, committed suicide while withdrawing from drugs prescribed to her
for depression. Just one of the hundreds of thousands of prescription drug
fatalities each year. The questions needing to be asked are asked
here, and answered. The cure of mental illness is cognitive education.
(The 12 steps cured me of suicidal and homicidal "paranoid schizophrenia."
)This book is a must read for everyone in the medical profession and anyone
who takes or might consider taking prescription drugs. It could save your
life, or the life of someone you love.

Clover Smith-Greene, Author, Escape from Psychiatry, Founder, Welcome
World.org

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!, April 2, 2007

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Elaine Manley - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher: God's Call to Loving Arms (Paperback)

This was a real eye opener on what's happening with the pharmaceutical industry especially with the psychiatric medications. Convinced me I'd never use that stuff and that there are many options that don't require those meds. Great book.