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Very informative and factual, January 20, 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: The Drug Lords: America's Pharmaceutical Cartel (Paperback)
The pharmaceutical industry has gotten out of control. This book points out when,how,why and who is has allowed this to happen. It has the reader understanding some of the consequeces they may face if prescribed a certain drug. It makes the public more aware of the marketing tactics of these enormous companies and why they have so much power. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is willing to take responsibility for their own health. To find out why you should not leave your decision making about taking prescription drugs up to your medical doctor read this book!
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Drug Lords... Exposes Pharmaceutical Industry, November 18, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: The Drug Lords: America's Pharmaceutical Cartel (Paperback)
1. If you believe medicine and the pharmaceutical industry in this country have your best interests at heart, you should read this book.
2. If you believe that drug advertising is direct and honest, you need to read this book.
3. If you believe the propaganda that medicine is the only effective form of health care in town, you need to read this book. (Medicine and particularly the pharmaceutical industry work to help ensure that alternative health care avenues never achieve their deserved status.)
4. If you believe the media has an objective voice when it comes to reporting on new or miracle drugs, you need to read this book.
5. If you believe your health will improve if you find the right drug or enough drugs, you need to read this book.
6. If you believe that taking legal drugs is safe, you need to read this book. (Drug reactions in hospitals alone [exclusive of the general non-hospitalized public] rank as the 4th leading cause of death in this country.)
7. If you are concerned with the state of health care in this country and wonder why even though we are taking more drugs than ever before, we aren't getting any healthier, you need to read this book. (There was a 400% increase in the per capita expenditure on legal drugs in this country between 1981-1997.)
Look at it this way--You need to read this book. It's an eye-opener.
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Excellent look at the pseudo ethics of the drug industry, November 1, 1998
This review is from: The Drug Lords: America's Pharmaceutical Cartel (Paperback)
The Drug Lords...America's Pharmaceutical Cartel offers an eye-opening look at our over-prescribed, over-medicated society and the role the pharmaceutical industry plays in keeping us there. Author Tonda Bian seeks to bring to light the propaganda Americans have bought into--that drugs can heal. Bian uses examples to show that drugs don't heal--we have just been led to believe that if we take enough drugs or the right drug our health will improve, but in fact, the only thing improving with the increase in legal drug use in this country is the profit of the industry. In fact, Bian notes how the toxic nature of drugs is key in the illness and death of tens of thousands annually.
Bian also looks at medicine's goal of keeping all other forms of health care non-competitive by its ongoing propaganda campaign it assists with the media's help. In other words, non-medical or alternative/complementary care is kept at arm's reach from most American's due to a combination of politics, propaganda and the press.
The book is a must-read for anyone concerned with our sick and dying society and medicine's interest in keeping us there--because the sick and dying offer an endless marketplace. The healthy do not.
A bargain at $12.95
Michael Savas IM49008@aol.com
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