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singular_me
16th September 2015, 02:13 PM
think aeon may be right when saying vaccines are safe ;D

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Prescription pills are Britain’s third biggest killer: Side-effects of drugs taken for insomnia and anxiety kill thousands. Why do doctors hand them out like Smarties?

9.16.15

80 million prescriptions for psychiatric drugs are written in UK every year
Psychiatric drugs are the third major killer after heart disease and cancer
Professor Gøtzsche reveals the scale of the issue in a new book
Luke Montagu, 45, heir to the Earl of Sandwich, was wrongly prescribed anti-depressants which took him seven years to detox from

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3234334/Prescription-pills-Britain-s-biggest-killer-effects-drugs-taken-insomnia-anxiety-kill-thousands-doctors-hand-like-Smarties.html#ixzz3lvz3ZhaA
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‘Soaring drug use, a growing number of addicts, far too few clinics to treat them and a rising death toll. This might sound like a scene from an impoverished country run by drug cartels – but it is, in fact, the day-to-day reality for NHS patients who are prescribed psychiatric drugs to treat anxiety, insomnia and depression.

More than 80 million prescriptions for psychiatric drugs are written in the UK every year. Not only are these drugs often entirely unnecessary and ineffective, but they can also turn patients into addicts, cause crippling side-effects – and kill.

For instance, antipsychotics, commonly given to dementia patients to keep them quiet, raise the risk of heart disease, diabetes and stroke. Psychiatric drugs also make falls more likely, and breaking a hip can shorten life significantly, while some antidepressants are linked to a potentially deadly irregular heartbeat.’

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3234334/Prescription-pills-Britain-s-biggest-killer-effects-drugs-taken-insomnia-anxiety-kill-thousands-doctors-hand-like-Smarties.html

madfranks
16th September 2015, 02:58 PM
Save a life, turn in your k̶n̶i̶f̶e̶ pills.

Shami-Amourae
16th September 2015, 04:01 PM
So you're saying covering up symptoms with poisonous chemicals doesn't solve health problems?
:confused:

singular_me
21st July 2016, 10:29 AM
I read so much about the world insanity today that I must refrain myself from posting them all... but here is one of them
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England's 'free' healthcare system spending $1Million a day on antidepressants, despite research showing their ineffectiveness
21 July 2016 GMT
http://www.naturalnews.com/054714_UK_NHS_antidepressants_depression.html


2 of the source for the above
NHS spends £780,000 a day on antidepressants
15th July 2016
The National Health Service in England is now shelling out £780,000 a day on antidepressants which, out of all BNF drug categories, saw the greatest numeric rise in prescriptions in 2015.

According to a report published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), there were 61.0 million antidepressant items prescribed during the year, 31.6 million (107.6 percent) more than in 2005 and 3.9 million (6.8 percent) more than in 2014.

The Net Ingredient Cost (NIC) has also increased in the past year, rising by £19.7 million (7.4 percent) to £284.7 million, although this is £53.8 million (15.9 percent) lower than in 2005.
http://www.pharmatimes.com/news/nhs_spends_780,000_a_day_on_antidepressants_107319 3

and
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-3675052/Antidepressant-prescriptions-double-61-million-10-years.html