If Cars Were Priced Like Prescription Drugs, You'd Pay $4.5 Million for a Family Sedan
Report available at Newstarget.com makes 15 stark comparisons between the prescription drug and automobile industries.
(PRWEB) August 17, 2005 -- If the auto industry operated like the
pharmaceutical industry, cars would be sold at a 30,000% markup, dangerous cars
that kill their occupants would be deemed perfectly safe, and importing cars
from other countries (Toyota from Japan, for example) would be banned. These are
three of the fifteen comparisons about modern medicine revealed in a wildly
popular comparison report published at NewsTarget.com: http://www.newstarget.com/009844.html
The comparison
offers stinging criticism of today's pharmaceutical industry, where deaths from
FDA-approved drugs far exceed the fatalities caused by auto accidents, airplane
crashes, and murderers combined. Its author, natural health advocate Mike Adams,
hopes the satirical article will help open peoples' eyes to the unacceptable
costs of the mass drugging of the population with synthetic
chemicals.
"If people were dying in car crashes at the rate they're dying
from medications," explains Adams, "there would be a national uproar."
FDA-approved "safe" prescription drugs kill nearly 100,000 Americans each year,
even when used as directed, according to research published in the Journal of
the American Medical Association. Over-the-counter painkillers kill at least
another 16,500 annually from gastrointestinal bleeding.
"We are talking
about a scope of fatalities that equals actions of war," says Adams. Just one
popular anti-inflammatory drug, according to statistics released by senior FDA
drug safety researcher Dr. David Graham, has killed more Americans than the
entire Vietnam War. If automobiles killed that many people, says Adams, the
public, the press and Congress would all be in an uproar.
Prescription
drugs not only kill far more people than automobile accidents, nearly one-third
of such accidents are actually caused by prescription drug side effects, says
Adams. "Medications cloud the mind," Adams explains, "but many patients continue
to operate motor vehicles anyway, and they end up causing accidents."
For
more information, visit:
http://www.newstarget.com/009844.html
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/8/prweb273555.htm