Why would such a young and presumably healthy man need so many prescriptions in the first place? It's the medical profession in general that is so stuck on writing prescriptions that needs to be re-educated.

I'm no Tom Cruise, but it's just too easy to treat discomfort with drugs when there really are a host of other things that can be done first. Trouble sleeping? Go work out until you're so tired your body just drops you right off. Aroma therapy is very effective, as are Reiki, acupuncture, reflexology, herbal preparations to name a few.

I don't blame so much the people taking pharmaceuticals as I do the practitioners who rely upon them as the only means of helping someone cope. Certainly there are times when drugs are necessary, but not anywhere near to the extent that so many use them.

Ledgers death was far less an accident than it was murder by prescription. JMHO.

drug companies and the doctors who just want the kickbacks are evil

I don't like taking drugs unless I'm absolutely dying (like therflu)

But in these cases, they get hooked and they trust the doctors. Or perhaps with Britney, she is trusting her new manager, and he's getting her hooked.

Sad!

We had a similar situation in our neighborhood several years ago, and the victim was an adult woman, a few years younger than I am. She lived across, and down the street from me.

Her best friend was/is another neighbor who's the mother of Arizona-daughter's best friend.

The woman who died, whose name was Jessica (sorry!!!), was grossly overweight, and also had a lot of depression, and other stuff going on in her life (according to my other neighbor). When one doctor refused to prescribe anymore pills for her, she would simply find herself another one, and omit the fact that she was taking a gazillion other prescriptions when asking for the new one. Her husband, other family, and friends (including my other neighbor) begged Jessica to stop the nonsense because they were all terribly concerned about all of these medications...

This becomes a little convoluted, but my next-door-neighbor (who has six grown kids) has a daughter who's married to a police officer. This daughter also used to work as a dispatcher before she had two little boys. It was about noon on a Sunday, and I had stepped outside when I heard Kerry (next door, and also outside) talking frantically on the phone. I then noticed that there were lots of police cars down the hill, and an ambulance parked in front of Jessica's house. Kerry was trying to determine, through her police contacts, what was going on. She started to get a bit upset, and I heard her tell a member of her family, "Oh my God, someone has died!" She said something else on the phone, and then started shrieking, "Oh, my GOD! It's JESSICA!!!"

Everyone sort-of jumped into action; a number of us went charging down the street, and Kerry went over to my other neighbor's house to tell her that her best friend had just passed away!

It turns out that Jessica and her husband had gotten up as usual on Sunday morning, had some breakfast, and then Jessica went back up to their bedroom to read, or something. She was sitting in a chair, and simply passed away from an overdose of whatever combination of stuff she was taking.

It was all really awful because my youngest daughter knew her well; Jessica and my other neighbor, my daughter, and my neighbor's daughter were together frequently (two sets of best friends). My neighbor told me that she always felt that something like this would happen. And, it did...

Sorry to hear of the tragedy at the neighbour's, Moore. Very sad indeed, as was Heath Ledger's death.

Jess, you're right about the generation raised believing in drugs, but we also have to look at the reasons behind that. That dependence didn't develop in a vacuum. I wonder what organisations would profit from that.

Energy medicine is beginning to receive mainstream scientific recognition. In fact, the backlash has already started as many homeopathic polycrest remedies have been banned because they are "poisonous". Interesting that the very people who deny that energy medicine is effective because the amount of active "substance" in the remedies is below Avogadro's number (no molecules left of the substance at all in the remedy) are saying these very remedies can be harmful. Ridiculous, of course. Somebody is afraid that their cash cow might be in for a little bit of a tumble. And yet again, it's all about monetary profit.

A well-known, prolific writer on natural health wrote this piece a couple of years ago. Moore, if you are enraged now, read this article and you'll be even more so.

I've been an advocate of natural remedies for a long time, and now the pharmaceutical companies are getting away with what has been most feared by others like me - our remedies are indeed becoming harder and harder to find, and alternative health treatments are roundly discredited by specious arguments that rely on scare tactics, and guess what? It's working. The big money guys are getting their way and nobody is stopping them. Homeopathic and herbal remedies can not be patented and are very inexpensive. Other alternative treatments have no upside for those selling drugs.

The first documented use of "Aspirin" was by Hippocrates in 400BC when he made a tea from willow leaves and gave it to women for child birth discomfort. It wasn't until 1823 that Italian chemists extracted the active ingredient in willow and named it salicin. The rest is history.




Mike Adams on the pharmaceutical industry

I have read about 3 reasons so far but apparently there are more. One was for a former girlfriend to whom he owed money and then started harassing. One man has one against him for harassment at his home and publishing nude pics of him and a whole assortment of horrible things, and the last I think is for something to do with a business partner.

Anyways speaking of remedies and homeopathy, I'm feeling really crummy with a scratchy throat. Any ideas.