The global market for pharmaceuticals was worth more than $693 billion in 2007. It is expected to increase to over $737 billion in 2008 and will top $1.0 trillion in 2013. The market is divided into branded prescription drugs, generic prescription drugs and over-the-counter products. Branded prescription drugs have the largest share of the market, with more than $525 billion in sales during 2007.
The second largest segment, generic prescription drugs, will experience the highest growth rate over the next few years. It was worth $78.5 billion in 2007 and will nearly double, to almost $152 billion, by the end of 2013.
Sources: PharmaLive.com June 11, 2008
Dr. Mercola's Comments: Unfortunately most of the population has been brainwashed to take a pill to feel better. I was reminded of this recently when I took a treadmill EKG for an insurance physical. The staff was in utter disbelief that I was not on any medications and questioned me several times on that.
Do You Have a "Drug Addict" Mindset?
There are times when drugs are necessary, but the bottom line is that most of the time they aren't. Unfortunately, when you buy into the mindset that you need a drug to "fix" you, two things happen that begin to feed on each other, creating a never-ending loop of deteriorating health.
First, and most obviously, you subject your body to a potentially toxic substance.
Second, and this is more on a subconscious level, it reinforces the idea in your mind that your body cannot heal itself. Each time you take a pill you're telling yourself that only these drugs can do that.
Which, of course, is a lie designed to empty your pocketbooks into drug company coffers.
Instead the drugs are invariably creating other problems, which will lead to yet another prescription to counteract the side effects from the first one, followed by another one, and another.
This is clearly shown in the statistics of prescriptions per capita, which has grown exponentially in the past 75 years. In 1929, the average American received less than two prescriptions per year. By 2006, the average annual prescription rate per capita in the United States was:
just over 4 prescriptions per child (age 0-18) almost 11 prescriptions per adult (age 19-64), and a whopping 28 prescriptions per senior, aged 65 and over! This is an insult to the immense and innate healing power of your body. There is just no way you would ever need that many drugs to stay healthy. These numbers are a sad reminder of just how successfully industry has turned our society into a "pharmacracy" where every twitch is deemed suitable for another prescription.
What's Your Drug of Choice?
I'm guessing most of you reading this would not take drugs like heroin or cocaine. After all, recreational drugs are responsible for an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 U.S. deaths each year.
Well, an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs that, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Two million more suffer serious side effects.
Taking this a step further, consider the medical error and mortality rate of conventional medicine in this light:
1. The recorded error rate of ICU's is like the post office losing more than 16,000 pieces of mail every hour of every day, or banks deducting 32,000 checks from the wrong bank account every hour, 24/7
2. The recorded medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky each day, 365 days a year
3. Since 2001, a recorded 490,000 people have died from properly prescribed drugs in the United States, while 2,996 people died on U.S. soil from terrorism, all in the 9/11 attacks; prescription drugs are therefore 16,400 percent more dangerous than terrorism.
4. If deaths from over-the-counter drugs are also included, then drug consumption leaps to being 32,000 percent more dangerous than terrorism. And conventional medicine viewed as a whole is 104,700 percent deadlier than terrorism
With these kinds of odds, does it still make sense to take prescription drugs for problems that lifestyle changes can often resolve?
Most Drugs are Completely Unnecessary
As much as the drug companies want you to believe that it's normal to take medicine every day, it's NOT. It is the rare exception that you should ever need to take a drug.
Of course, you should work with your health care provider (preferably a holistic-minded one) in determining which ones are really vital, but I can tell you this: if you are suffering from any one of the following common conditions, drugs are not the answer:
1. Arthritis 2. High cholesterol 3. Cognitive decline 4. Depression 5. Diabetes 6. High blood pressure 7. Osteoporosis
And that's just for starters.
Inching Closer to the Tipping Point
Help spread the word as far and wide as you can; relying on drugs will never give you the healthy body and mind you desire. What will give you optimal health is a bit of work on your part, to eat healthy, to exercise, to relieve your stress -- all of the things I detail in my Take Control of Your Health program.
And there is light on the horizon. For the first time in history the drug cartel is slated to have negative growth in 2011. However, this means you and your children are in for more aggressive pharmaceutical advertising, as they're focusing more of their marketing efforts on direct-to-consumer advertising.
So let's keep the momentum going and not let up for even a second. One of the easiest things you can do is to regularly review this newsletter to keep current on the latest deceptions and frauds the drug companies are trying to get away with, and share it with all of your friends and family so that they're aware of the issues too.
Related Articles:
How the American Medical Association Got Rich
America Spends More For Mediocre Health Care Than All Other Nations
How Many of These Ridiculous "Disorders" Do YOU Suffer From?
Does this increase take into account the anti-depressants that hog the market. They are elective and seem to be elected by almost everyone. Where is the talk therapy that preceded this taking an anti-depressant for every "twitch of any sort" They have changed our health visions to a plagued society of deadly and destructive licenses to kill and put blood on the hands of the perpetrators. First in human history are the illnesses Crohns Disease and Ulcerative Colitis mind/body illnesses transferred by being on a stimulant and thinking of someone they know. And where ever the innocent person goes and his mind goes with him, the stimulant taker follows. Colorectal cancer has increased since the ADs have become the med of choice for every person thought to be in need of it. And the need is most times created by some person before them affecting them. Innocent people are sentenced to death from the environment of anti-depressants in the nursing homes and other institutions. But most prevalent in the nursing homes. Residents are unhappy, and those that can leave, do. Employees in the line of fire simply quit after feeling the effects of the resident's anti-depressants. What to be done, as all of us might one day have to go to a nursing home. (read that one woman committed suicide instead of going to a nursing home.) That might be the trend of the future, unless the nursing homes stop their iniquities and ban the anti-depressants. We then can try to forgive their trespasses that carry blood on their hands. Problem is, if it helps one person, they will not give up that drug, even knowing it may harm someone. Time again to "just say no to anti-depressants and hard drugs." The legality of anti-depressants does not make them safe, they are in the class of all stimulants, as the hard drugs. Time to pull the plug on anti-depressants as they are not "maybe" harmful to others. They irrevocably are. Gail Michael
The Subject line says "Why is the U.S. Spending More Than $1 Trillion for Drugs?"
The next thing we read is:
>The global market for pharmaceuticals was worth more than $693 billion in >2007. It is expected to increase to over $737 billion in 2008 and will top >$1.0 trillion in 2013.
So the entire world spends less that "$1 trillion" on drugs and won't get to that for five years but the US alone spends more than that now.
It is things like this which make people who believe Joe Mercola look so pathetic.
The global market for pharmaceuticals was worth more than $693 billion in 2007. It is expected to increase to over $737 billion in 2008 and will top $1.0 trillion in 2013. The market is divided into branded prescription drugs, generic prescription drugs and over-the-counter products. Branded prescription drugs have the largest share of the market, with more than $525 billion in sales during 2007.
The second largest segment, generic prescription drugs, will experience the highest growth rate over the next few years. It was worth $78.5 billion in 2007 and will nearly double, to almost $152 billion, by the end of 2013.
Sources: PharmaLive.com June 11, 2008
1. Global Market for Pharmaceuticals Worth Over $1 Trillion by 2013 ... $741.5 billion by the end of 2013 for a CAGR of 6.0%. The second largest segment generic prescription drugs will experience the highest growth rate over the study period. Worth $78.5 billion in 2007 and an estimated $88.7 billion in 2008 it will reach $151.4 billion by the end of 2013 for a CAGR of 11.3%. The OTC segment was worth over $90.0 billion in 2007. It should increase to $95.7 billion in 2008 and reach $135.1 billion in 2013 for a CAGR of 7.1%. Though the worldwide ... emergence of e-pharmaceuticals also are reshaping the dynamic pharmaceuticals industry. WORLDWIDE MARKET PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS THROUGH 2013($ Billions) ... Jun 11, 2008|pharmalive.com|
Dr. Mercola's Comments: Unfortunately most of the population has been brainwashed to take a pill to feel better. I was reminded of this recently when I took a treadmill EKG for an insurance physical. The staff was in utter disbelief that I was not on any medications and questioned me several times on that.
Do You Have a "Drug Addict" Mindset?
There are times when drugs are necessary, but the bottom line is that most of the time they aren't. Unfortunately, when you buy into the mindset that you need a drug to "fix" you, two things happen that begin to feed on each other, creating a never-ending loop of deteriorating health.
First, and most obviously, you subject your body to a potentially toxic substance.
Second, and this is more on a subconscious level, it reinforces the idea in your mind that your body cannot heal itself. Each time you take a pill you're telling yourself that only these drugs can do that.
Which, of course, is a lie designed to empty your pocketbooks into drug company coffers.
Instead the drugs are invariably creating other problems, which will lead to yet another prescription to counteract the side effects from the first one, followed by another one, and another.
This is clearly shown in the statistics of prescriptions per capita, which has grown exponentially in the past 75 years. In 1929, the average American received less than two prescriptions per year. By 2006, the average annual prescription rate per capita in the United States was:
just over 4 prescriptions per child (age 0-18) almost 11 prescriptions per adult (age 19-64), and a whopping 28 prescriptions per senior, aged 65 and over! This is an insult to the immense and innate healing power of your body. There is just no way you would ever need that many drugs to stay healthy. These numbers are a sad reminder of just how successfully industry has turned our society into a "pharmacracy" where every twitch is deemed suitable for another prescription.
What's Your Drug of Choice?
I'm guessing most of you reading this would not take drugs like heroin or cocaine. After all, recreational drugs are responsible for an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 U.S. deaths each year.
Well, an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs that, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly administered, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Two million more suffer serious side effects.
Taking this a step further, consider the medical error and mortality rate of conventional medicine in this light:
1. The recorded error rate of ICU's is like the post office losing more than 16,000 pieces of mail every hour of every day, or banks deducting 32,000 checks from the wrong bank account every hour, 24/7
2. The recorded medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling out of the sky each day, 365 days a year
3. Since 2001, a recorded 490,000 people have died from properly prescribed drugs in the United States, while 2,996 people died on U.S. soil from terrorism, all in the 9/11 attacks; prescription drugs are therefore 16,400 percent more dangerous than terrorism.
4. If deaths from over-the-counter drugs are also included, then drug consumption leaps to being 32,000 percent more dangerous than terrorism. And conventional medicine viewed as a whole is 104,700 percent deadlier than terrorism
With these kinds of odds, does it still make sense to take prescription drugs for problems that lifestyle changes can often resolve?
Most Drugs are Completely Unnecessary
As much as the drug companies want you to believe that it's normal to take medicine every day, it's NOT. It is the rare exception that you should ever need to take a drug.
Of course, you should work with your health care provider (preferably a holistic-minded one) in determining which ones are really vital, but I can tell you this: if you are suffering from any one of the following common conditions, drugs are not the answer:
1. Arthritis 2. High cholesterol 3. Cognitive decline 4. Depression 5. Diabetes 6. High blood pressure 7. Osteoporosis
And that's just for starters.
Inching Closer to the Tipping Point
Help spread the word as far and wide as you can; relying on drugs will never give you the healthy body and mind you desire. What will give you optimal health is a bit of work on your part, to eat healthy, to exercise, to relieve your stress -- all of the things I detail in my Take Control of Your Health program.
And there is light on the horizon. For the first time in history the drug cartel is slated to have negative growth in 2011. However, this means you and your children are in for more aggressive pharmaceutical advertising, as they're focusing more of their marketing efforts on direct-to-consumer advertising.
So let's keep the momentum going and not let up for even a second. One of the easiest things you can do is to regularly review this newsletter to keep current on the latest deceptions and frauds the drug companies are trying to get away with, and share it with all of your friends and family so that they're aware of the issues too.
Related Articles:
How the American Medical Association Got Rich
America Spends More For Mediocre Health Care Than All Other Nations
How Many of These Ridiculous "Disorders" Do YOU Suffer From?
> The global market for pharmaceuticals was worth more than $693 billion in > 2007. It is expected to increase to over $737 billion in 2008 and will top > $1.0 trillion in 2013. > The market is divided into branded prescription drugs, generic prescription > drugs and over-the-counter products. Branded prescription drugs have the > largest share of the market, with more than $525 billion in sales during > 2007.
> The second largest segment, generic prescription drugs, will experience the > highest growth rate over the next few years. It was worth $78.5 billion in > 2007 and will nearly double, to almost $152 billion, by the end of 2013.
> Sources: > PharmaLive.com June 11, 2008
> Dr. Mercola's Comments: > Unfortunately most of the population has been brainwashed to take a pill to > feel better. I was reminded of this recently when I took a treadmill EKG for > an insurance physical. The staff was in utter disbelief that I was not on > any medications and questioned me several times on that.
> Do You Have a "Drug Addict" Mindset?
> There are times when drugs are necessary, but the bottom line is that most > of the time they aren't. Unfortunately, when you buy into the mindset that > you need a drug to "fix" you, two things happen that begin to feed on each > other, creating a never-ending loop of deteriorating health.
> First, and most obviously, you subject your body to a potentially toxic > substance.
> Second, and this is more on a subconscious level, it reinforces the idea in > your mind that your body cannot heal itself. Each time you take a pill you're > telling yourself that only these drugs can do that.
> Which, of course, is a lie designed to empty your pocketbooks into drug > company coffers.
> Instead the drugs are invariably creating other problems, which will lead to > yet another prescription to counteract the side effects from the first one, > followed by another one, and another.
> This is clearly shown in the statistics of prescriptions per capita, which > has grown exponentially in the past 75 years. In 1929, the average American > received less than two prescriptions per year. By 2006, the average annual > prescription rate per capita in the United States was:
> just over 4 prescriptions per child (age 0-18) > almost 11 prescriptions per adult (age 19-64), and > a whopping 28 prescriptions per senior, aged 65 and over! > This is an insult to the immense and innate healing power of your body. > There is just no way you would ever need that many drugs to stay healthy. > These numbers are a sad reminder of just how successfully industry has > turned our society into a "pharmacracy" where every twitch is deemed > suitable for another prescription.
> What's Your Drug of Choice?
> I'm guessing most of you reading this would not take drugs like heroin or > cocaine. After all, recreational drugs are responsible for an estimated > 10,000 to 20,000 U.S. deaths each year.
> Well, an estimated 106,000 hospitalized patients die each year from drugs > that, by medical standards, are properly prescribed and properly > administered, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical > Association (JAMA).
> Two million more suffer serious side effects.
> Taking this a step further, consider the medical error and mortality rate of > conventional medicine in this light:
> 1. The recorded error rate of ICU's is like the post office losing more than > 16,000 pieces of mail every hour of every day, or banks deducting 32,000 > checks from the wrong bank account every hour, 24/7
> 2. The recorded medical errors and deaths equate to six jumbo jets falling > out of the sky each day, 365 days a year
> 3. Since 2001, a recorded 490,000 people have died from properly prescribed > drugs in the United States, while 2,996 people died on U.S. soil from > terrorism, all in the 9/11 attacks; prescription drugs are therefore 16,400 > percent more dangerous than terrorism.
> 4. If deaths from over-the-counter drugs are also included, then drug > consumption leaps to being 32,000 percent more dangerous than terrorism. And > conventional medicine viewed as a whole is 104,700 percent deadlier than > terrorism
> With these kinds of odds, does it still make sense to take prescription > drugs for problems that lifestyle changes can often resolve?
> Most Drugs are Completely Unnecessary
> As much as the drug companies want you to believe that it's normal to take > medicine every day, it's NOT. It is the rare exception that you should ever > need to take a drug.
> Of course, you should work with your health care provider (preferably a > holistic-minded one) in determining which ones are really vital, but I can > tell you this: if you are suffering from any one of the following common > conditions, drugs are not the answer:
> Help spread the word as far and wide as you can; relying on drugs will never > give you the healthy body and mind you desire. What will give you optimal > health is a bit of work on your part, to eat healthy, to exercise, to > relieve your stress -- all of the things I detail in my Take Control of Your > Health program.
> And there is light on the horizon. For the first time in history the drug > cartel is slated to have negative growth in 2011. However, this means you > and your children are in for more aggressive pharmaceutical advertising, as > they're focusing more of their marketing efforts on direct-to-consumer > advertising.
> So let's keep the momentum going and not let up for even a second. One of > the easiest things you can do is to regularly review this newsletter to keep > current on the latest deceptions and frauds the drug companies are trying to > get away with, and share it with all of your friends and family so that they're > aware of the issues too.
> Related Articles:
> How the American Medical Association Got Rich
> America Spends More For Mediocre Health Care Than All Other Nations
> How Many of These Ridiculous "Disorders" Do YOU Suffer From?
true and thats because of the big pharmasuticals company's and our corrupted congress and senate.Without term limitations they have plenty of time to get bought off by the large lobbyist groups such as those that represent insurance company's,hospitals,doctors,and of course drug company's.They also get kickbacks from them and they have the opotunity to buy stock options with the big pharmacutical company's.Even though it;s illegal they always have ways to cover it up and to hide it.
