“Selling Sickness”, by Ray
Moynihan and Alan Cassels, is a book about how the world’s biggest
pharmaceutical companies are turning us all into patients.
The book goes on to tell us
about how the marketing strategies of the world’s biggest drug companies now
aggressively target the healthy and the well.
The ups and downs of daily
life have become medical or mental disorders, common complaints are transformed
into frightening conditions, and more and more ordinary people are being turned
into patients, a k a customers.
With promotional campaigns
exploiting our deepest fears of death, decay and disease, the $500 billion
pharmaceutical industry is literally changing what it means to be a human
being.
Rightly rewarded for saving
life and reducing suffering in crisis, the global drug giants are no longer
content to sell medicines to the ill as there is a lot of money to be made
telling healthy people that they are sick and need to buy drugs.
This book is a controversial
and provocative look at the way pharmaceutical companies are creating and
marketing illness. The book goes into great detail, backing up everything I
have been saying for years, on the radio, about how drug companies simply see
us as piggy banks and only want to sell us drugs whether we need them or not.
According to the authors,
thirty years ago, Henry Gadsden, the head of Merck, one of the world’s largest
drug companies, told Fortune magazine that he wanted Merck to be more like a
chewing gum company like Wrigley’s where everyone consumed his product.
Gadsden’s dream of making
drugs for healthy people so he could sell to everyone, now drives the marketing
machinery of the most profitable industry in the world. Gadsden is not hiding
the fact that he wants Merck to sell its drugs to everyone!
This overt plot is
frightening because by using their dominating influence in the world of
“medical science”, the drug companies are systematically working to widen the
very boundaries that define illness.
Old conditions are expanded,
new ones created, and the markets for medication grow even larger.
Mild problems are being
redefined as serious illness and common complaints are labeled as medical
conditions requiring drug treatments.
Runny noses are now allergic
rhinitis,
PMS has become a psychiatric
disorder.
Hyperactivity in children has
become the infamous ADD or ADHD. Shyness is now social anxiety disorder, and
“twitchy” legs has become Restless Leg Syndrome, requiring highly toxic drug
treatments.
When it comes to conditions
like high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or having a case of the “blues”, we
are told that we are “at risk” if we do not take drugs to handle the problem.
“Selling Sickness” reveals
how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold of treatments
is creating millions of new patients and billions of dollars, in new profits,
for the drug companies.
As more and more of ordinary
life becomes “medicalized”, the drug industry moves closer to Gadsden’s dream
of being able to sell its drugs to everyone.
What’s important here is you
looking at your situation. If you are taking drugs to treat symptoms, why not
try to address the cause, which usually has to do with what you eat and,
ultimately, may lead to your not having to take drugs anymore.
Switching to a vegan diet,
devoid of processed foods, could reverse the symptoms of the majority of
degenerative diseases.
Basically, you must take
responsibility for your health and put it back in your hands. Support is not a
problem.
“Healthtalkhawaii.com”, and
“Naturalnews.com” are all invaluable sources of information, encouragement and
direction.
But, first and foremost, the
road to good health is paved with change and that change has to start with your
sincere desire to do so. Your choice is simple: be a part of the travesty or
walk away from it.
“Selling Sickness” is a MUST
read for everyone!
Aloha!
Sources:
Henry Moynihan
Judy Segal
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