{"id":89813,"date":"2017-11-26T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T12:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89813"},"modified":"2017-11-26T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T12:59:41","slug":"medical-destruction-its-not-just-opioids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=89813","title":{"rendered":"Medical destruction: It&#8217;s not just opioids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jon Rappoport<\/p>\n<p>Some people are just waking up to medical destruction, by way of news on the opioid epidemic.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re late to the party, but that&#8217;s all right. They can catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few horrific &#8220;catch-up&#8221; quotes. I&#8217;ll discuss the source afterwards:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;appropriately prescribed prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death&#8230;About 330,000 patients die each year from prescription drugs in the US and Europe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They [the drugs] cause an epidemic of about 20 times more [6.6 million per year] hospitalizations, as well as falls, road accidents, and about 80 million [per year] medically minor problems such as pains, discomforts, and dysfunctions that hobble productivity or the ability to care for others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deaths from overmedication, errors, and self-medication would increase these figures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the 330,000 deaths per year, the 6.6 million hospitalizations per year, and the 80 million &#8220;medically minor&#8221; problems per year&#8230;all of this stems from CORRECTLY PRESCRIBED medicines.<\/p>\n<p>The quotes come from the ASA [American Sociological Association] publication called Footnotes, in its November 2014 issue. The article is &#8220;The Epidemic of Sickness and Death from Prescription Drugs.&#8221; The author of the article is Donald W Light.<\/p>\n<p>Donald W Light is a professor of medical and economic sociology. He is a founding fellow of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2013, he was a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard. He is a Lokey Visiting Professor at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been my policy to quote medical analysts who have mainstream credentials, when it comes to adding up the results of medical-drug destruction.<\/p>\n<p>I do this to show that, in refusing to fix the holocaust, the federal government, medical schools, and pharmaceutical companies can&#8217;t claim their critics and detractors are &#8220;fringe researchers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Believe me, the officials who should have been fixing the enormous tragedy for at least the past 15 years are intent on hiding it.<\/p>\n<p>When you stop and think about the meaning of these medical numbers, one of the things you realize is: this massive destruction of life envelops whole countries.<\/p>\n<p>It not only maims and kills, it brings emotional turmoil and loss to the families, friends, co-workers, and colleagues of those who are killed and maimed: the 330,000 who are killed and the 6.6 million who are hospitalized and the 80 million whose productivity is hobbled or whose ability to care for others is significantly diminished.<\/p>\n<p>If you consciously set out to bring a nation to its knees, to kill it, to disable it, to make it unable to function at any reasonable level, you would be hard pressed to find a more effective long-term method than exposing the population to the US\/European medical-drug cartel.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Light is the editor of a book that ought to be studied at every college and medical school in the world: The Risks of Prescription Drugs (Columbia University Press). The basic research that led to his conclusions, cited above, come from that book. His website is www.pharmamyths.net.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/17\/medical-destruction-its-not-just-opioids\/\">http:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/17\/medical-destruction-its-not-just-opioids\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jon Rappoport Some people are just waking up to medical destruction, by way of news on the opioid epidemic. They&#8217;re late to the party, but that&#8217;s all right. They can catch up. 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