Deaths From Meds Increase (CBS News)

Dr. Jon LaPook reports that deaths from medications have nearly tripled. The chief culprits are prescribed painkillers, but also acetaminophen, a common over-the-counter painkiller. (CBSNews.com)

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[jacklenut]

legalize marijuana

[lighthammar]

Some of the top lobbyists are from pharmacutical companies. Soon, vitamins will be illegal (look it up). Doctors regurgetate what pharma salespeople tell them. Slaves are dependant and easier to control.

[pwg1126]

@tembuck2 Will do. Thanks for your efforts. Someday they will pay, in this world or the next.

[tembuck2]

@pwg1126 PWG, we have the same mission. Your friend Tembuck2. My family owned a pharmacy for over 60 years. 3 generations. My father helped and saved many, many lives! But we saw the folly and hidden agendas of the Rx co's covert plot for the last 35 yrs. Now, My mission is to educate the public as to the pure greed and "Evil" of the Rx companies and their covert and insidious plots. Help me. Tem

[pwg1126]

Good job. Get the word out. My son died at age 22 from addiction to Ritalin. He took over 62 of the 20mg pills in two days and died. He had an addiction so I tried to get help from Memorial Herman PaRC rehab in Houston. They kicked him out after 22 days: 8 days of detox and 2 weeks of inpatient. They said he would not buy in to his addiction. He died 7 days later when he tried to go to a halfway house in houston that turned out to be in the ghetto. He died in the back seat of his car.

[gdcoker]

sithioth, you are a bloody idiot. People do try to find herbal/natural remedies for all kinds of ailments, some work, and some don't. The ones that don't get any relief from these natural remedies, such as pain patients, NEED actual drugs, be it narcotics or others. YOU, are the brainwashed feeble mind here, sithioth.

[thegirl44]

Some people do need drugs sithioth, unless of course you want diabetics to go back to dying before the age of 20.

[StudioM22]

Acetaminophen causes toxic damage to hepatocytes in the liver. Everyone in the medical field knows that acetaminophen is harmful for the liver and kidneys. If the liver goes, the whole body undergoes multiple organ system failure and death.

[yellowmandil02]

fair enough.

[DeadlyChinchilla]

Common sense is that they help you stay healthy in the long term. Common sense does not tell you they can solve highly complicated and sometimes out-of-whack chemicals interacting in your brain. Vitamins are smart, but they are not magic. It is also possible to get all necessary vitamins/minerals/etc by eating a properly balanced and diversified diet. Simply dumping vitamins into your system will do little, as new studies suggest overdosing can minimize their good effects.

[yellowmandil02]

suit yourself but how do you think you can best function? when ur lacking 6 to 7 vitamins or when you have them? it is almsot common sense

[DeadlyChinchilla]

Funny how I didn't actually call you "stupid." You came up with that all by yourself. If a book told you jumping off a cliff could cure cancer, would you believe it?

Btw, insulting the authors of the USA with some vague discriminatory and ethnocentric remark is hardly the way to get me to read your book.