I no longer believe drug studies paid for by the drug companies or drug researchers paid by the drug companies.

I know what they are all going to say.

They are all going to say, “These drugs are safe and effective and more people should use them.”

This is because the ONLY people the drug companies will hire are those people who will say these things and will help them to sell more drugs.

They will NEVER hire anyone who says anything else.

Therefore, I no longer believe drug studies or drug researchers paid by the drug companies.

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For some time now, I have been following the work of a UK parliamentary committee which has been looking into the activities of the pharmaceutical companies, and their influence over the healthcare system. Whilst this committee was sitting you could even watch the proceedings on television, although I wouldn’t recommend it - other than as a cure for insomnia.


(This article was written by Malcolm Kendrick, MD, author of the wonderful, eye-opening, paradigm-shifting book The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It .)

"Many a man stumbles across the truth, then picks himself up and hurries on as though nothing had happened."

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"[ The sale of psychiatric drugs is ] marketing… not science… It has nothing to do with science," says former drug sales rep Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau in this YouTube video.

Kathleen was a sales rep for the drug industry for 10 years.

"We did a lot of lunches and dinners, and brought in speakers, and those speakers were, obviously, paid by us.

"And we would waive the renowned studies at them from renowned journals, but, of course, we would never say that these studies were paid for by our [ drug ] company…

"And that the [ paper ] was written by a ghost writer who was paid by our [ drug ] company…

"Or that our [ drug ] company does a ton of advertising in that particular medical journal.

"We'd never say that.

Kathleen is with The Citizens Commission on Human Rights.

A related organization is the The Citizens Commission on Human Rights International.
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Comment: I would contend this is true for all drugs -- cholesterol drugs, blood pressure drugs, diabetes drugs, sleep drugs, etc, not just psychiatric drugs. The ridiculous notion of "Prehypertension" is an example of this. More on this below. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how they would minimize the appearance of side effects of drugs when doctors would express concerns about adverse effects. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how she witnessed that her minimization of side effects of drugs lead to patients being injured or killed. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is now in bed with the pharmaceutical industry. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how how Psychiatric Drugs can cause brain damage and many side effects often thought to be due to a mental illness, when, in fact, they are caused by the drug itself. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how if someone was against psychiatric drugs, they would say they were a Scientologist because many people dismiss Scientology or Scientologists as quacks. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how they were trained to profile doctors in order to maximize their influence of doctors about the drugs they were trying to sell. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, tells how she was addicted to the anti-anxiety drug Xanax (alprazolam) for 10 years.

She also says that after stopping Xanax, she experienced withdrawal symptoms for 6 months. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, notes that all psychiatric drugs can cause withdrawal symptoms which are often worse than the initial condition.

Traditional psychiatrists will often tell you that that you are having "rebound anxiety" or "rebound depression" or "rebound psychosis", and that you need to take these drugs forever and will never be normal without them, but this is not true Gwen notes.

The withdrawal, according to Gwen, is your body trying to detoxify from these drugs. Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, states that you should NEVER stop a psychiatric drug on your own.

You should ALWAYS be supervised by a health care professional because stopping these drugs will often cause withdrawal symptoms such as "rebound anxiety" or "rebound depression" or "rebound psychosis". Read the entire article | Email this article

Gwen Olsen, author of "Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher", who worked as a sales representative for the drug companies for 15 years calling on doctors, suggests looking for an alternative doctor or a doctor who is involved in "Integrative Care" to supervise withdrawal of psychiatric drugs.

She says that traditional psychiatrists are opposed to this because many psychiatrists have a vested interest in giving patients drugs.
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