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

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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

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

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.

One of Ms. Olsen's most vital messages is that life's problems are spiritual in nature, not medical. As long as our society looks to "experts" who do not admit the existence of the human spirit and view us as animals and collections of chemicals, the solutions we are offered will continue to bark up the wrong tree. And the concept that some people's brains are "wired differently" denies people their personal sense of responsibility for their own health and happiness. This is particularly cruel and tragic when it is done to children.

This book should be required reading at all medical schools and pharmacy colleges. It should be on the shelves of every university book store, law library, theological seminary, and teaching college. Ms. Olsen has given a wake-up call to the human race, and it's one that we dare not ignore!

This book is already a bit outdated...(things have gotten worse)..but still accurate. Our kids are being put on the -most addictive substances ever known-, psycho-active drugs that lead to insanity, self-mutilation, suicide, and murder. All you need to do do is compare all of the weird violence now to 30 years ago..mothers killing thoir kids, students killing their schoolmates...the drugs are the difference. Trust your doctor? What a shame.

What an amazing book, what an amazing woman. I had the opportunity not only to read this book but to meet Ms. Olsen. Her book is chock full of examples, citations and proof. Her motivation is beautiful and selfless. Her message is right on. This is excellent reading for anyone who is even considering putting their child on drugs. No one else has the tenacity and willingness to put themselves out their to tell the truth. Kudo's Ms. Olsen. You have made me even more compissionate!

Wow! Great book for anyone who is dealing with or knows someone with depression or anxiety. Gives numerous insider insights into why so many people have serious side effects to anti-depressant medications. The beginning is a little intense, keep reading it gets better.

This book weaves a tragic personal story with the larger, increasingly pervasive incidence of pharmaceutical influence on modern life. It describes an industry-gone-viral as ever-expanding profits claim control of emotional states which were once accepted as normal, transient and self-limiting. The pharmaceutical industry's march toward "better living through chemistry" has a very dark side, which can best be described by an insider. Ms. Olsen takes this responsibility seriously, exposing details that should give potential "users" pause before joining the ranks of the overmedicated, long-term customers whose emotional/mental states remain precarious with escallating co-morbidities.
As a health care provider, this book is a powerful tool in educating patients who are looking for safe, effective, lasting resolutions to their healthcare dilemmas. While there's no crime in making a profit, there is most certainly a moral obligation to make every effort toward honest, straight-forward, safe solutions for genuine issues surrounding mental health. It becomes clear that the current pharmaceutical approach leaves much to be desired in the areas of transperancy, ethics, profiteering and safety. This book is the antedote for the drug industry's over-zealous DTC (direct to consumer) advertising, while sharing the back story of numerous personal tragedies. I recommend it for anyone considering the use of these powerful potions, as well as those who are looking for the courage to find alternatives to their use. And I commend Gwen Olsen for having the courage to speak out against this mammouth industry. In fact, I just ordered 20 copies and will make them part of a lending library in hopes of sparing even one person from this entirely avoidable nightmare.

I will keep this short.

Do drug companies want to make profits? Yes. Do drug companies create drugs that save lives? Yes. Are SSRIs over prescribed? Yes. Have SSRIs saved the lives of millions of severly depressed people? Yes. It's a mixed bag.

Although the author of this book has tried to expose the corruption and malice of the drug industry, I have the feeling she is like a member of
AA who is trying to accomplish the twelve steps by correcting all her mistakes to clear her conscience.
The presentation certainly airs the training of drug reps. and how for power and dollars, they are duped into thinking they are serving physicians and patients.
The author gets into medical explanations regarding the drugs, a field
in which she is not trained and a field of expertise that she should leave to professionals.
The end of the book deals with her spiritual discovery and that is admirable, but I question whether it is properly placed in a book that has tried to courageously stepped forward to inform the public about the corruption of the drug industry and those who support it.