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07/12/2018 / By Russel Davis

People in their silver years are golden geese to Big Pharma: More than half are on at least 5 prescriptions, some more than 20

A recent study published in the journal Age and Aging has revealed that seniors and pensioners across the U.K. are being overly medicated for various diseases, making them an instant target among big pharmaceutical companies. A team of researchers at the Cambridge Institute of Public Health pooled data from more than 15,000 older people in order to accomplish […]

06/11/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Ketamine seen as “fast-acting” for those who suffer from depression

Ketamine started out as an anesthetic for surgeries, only to quickly get abused as a hallucinogenic party drug. Now a U.S. study is claiming it can serve as a “fast-acting” treatment for people afflicted with clinical depression, an article from the BBC reported. The researchers administered ketamine to participants via nasal spray. It claimed that volunteers with symptoms […]

05/01/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Here’s what happens to people who try to get off psychiatric drugs

Many people have spoken out about the potential threats posed by psychiatric drugs. Often heralded as life-saving treatments, few skeptics are given the time of day by the mainstream legacy media. Why put in the effort required by some “alternative” treatments (like dietary and lifestyle modifications) when you can just pop a pill to make […]

01/29/2018 / By Robert Jonathan

Another celebrity victim of Big Pharma: Autopsy report shows Tom Petty died of a prescription drug overdose

Rockstar Tom Petty died of an accidental drug overdose, an autopsy has revealed. The Los Angeles County coroner determined in a report earlier this month that Petty, 66, was determined to have a variety of pain meds in his system at the time of his death, including fentanyl, oxycodone, temazepam, alprazolam, citalopram, acetylfentanyl and despropionyl fentanyl in his system, […]

12/15/2017 / By Zoey Sky

Legal drugs kill more people than illegal ones: Research shows prescription drugs are the 3rd leading cause of death

According to Peter C. Gøtzsche, a Danish physician and medical researcher, prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Based on the findings that Gøtzsche studied, it is possible that “psychiatric drugs alone are also the third major killer,” and this is primarily due to antidepressants causing the deaths of […]

11/05/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Medicated pervert? Harvey Weinstein caught on camera with massive stash of what appear to be prescription pharmaceuticals

So far, we know that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is a liberal democrat and a pervert who enjoys begging women to get intimate with him. Now, we may be able to add “pharmaceutical drug addict” to that list as well. Page Six was recently provided a photograph from an anonymous source of Harvey Weinstein sitting […]

10/30/2017 / By Ethan Huff

GOP senators pushing for alternatives to deadly, addictive opioid prescription drugs… but none of them dare say “cannabis”

In the aftermath of President Trump’s recent speech on the opioid epidemic in America, a number of Republican senators have issued a call for the discovery of new opioid “alternatives,” demanding that Big Pharma step up to procure them. But such alternatives already exist in the form of natural plants like cannabis sativa (marijuana) and […]

10/16/2017 / By Mike Adams

Washington Post: U.S. Congress engineered DEA racket to protect Big Pharma’s opioid drug giants

Although best known for publishing fake news or being forced give back a Pulitzer prize after being caught committing fake journalism, the Washington Post occasionally stumbles across an actual news story. Over the weekend, the Post published a story that reads almost exactly like Natural News a decade ago, accusing the U.S. Congress of conspiring […]

10/14/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Could medical marijuana be a solution to the opioid epidemic?

Medical marijuana users in Illinois report that their use of the substance to relieve pain has lessened or stopped their use of other prescription medications such as opioids, as reported by The Daily Mail. The small-scale study from DePaul University and Rush University suggests it could be a solution to the opioid crisis. The researchers […]

10/11/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock kept a doctor “on retainer” to keep feeding him mind-altering psychotropic drugs

The man behind the recent Las Vegas massacre has something in common with the perpetrators of many other mass shootings in recent years: Psychiatric drug use. A court deposition in a civil lawsuit filed by Paddock over a slip-and-fall incident against the Cosmopolitan Hotel that was obtained by CNN provides insight into his state of […]

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