Just a reminder – the state of our modern drug therapy is not good; it has hit a dead-end!

It has entered the vicious cycle.  This means that no matter what drug is developed, whether or not effective or toxic, the drug makers will charge whatever they want and can get away with it, because few people are aware of it, even scientists who have created it.  If the drug has enough serious side effects, a new disease will be created which, in turn, needs more new drugs to treat, affording Big Pharma perpetual income.  There is plenty of incentive for greedy parties to maintain its status quo.

           Just check out the new drug, Valbenazine (Ingrezza), approved in April 2017 for treating the new drug-caused disease, Tardive Dyskinesia (TD), in people who have taken common drugs for mental and gastrointestinal problems.  In the USA alone, there are 500,000 citizens suffering from this new disease, each paying $200-$400 per day.  This would amount to roughly $37 billion to $73 billion per year to add to our national healthcare costs, a big chunk of which would go to the insurance and healthcare companies.  And this is only one drug!  Is this the kind of healthcare you want for your grandchildren and theirs?  Most people have never heard of this.  But it is quietly eliminating alternative therapies (at least trying) so that only new toxic synthetic drugs are produced and approved in an endless stream of drugs to feed the vicious cycle.  Before Valbenazine was approved for treating TD, I had thought that Big Pharma and associates might not know that drug therapy was heading towards its current unnatural state.  And when they finally came to realize that the new drug was to treat a disease caused by taking ‘common’ everyday medicines widely promoted and easily made available to the general public, they would understand the serious implications and would start to try to reassess their situation and perhaps reset their thinking and do right by the vast majority of other citizens.  But no.  It has been 2 years now.  Nothing seems to have been done to take advantage of age-old clinical experiences.  We are still doing the same so-called evidence-based science – from testing in test tubes to cells and small animals and then in humans for a measly few decades and consider the new synthetic drug safe.  But is it?    All I know is this vicious cycle has added another gold mine to its owners’ coffers, and simultaneously increasing our healthcare costs by tens of billions.   I think Big Pharma & Co. may even be quietly celebrating this in glee for over 2 years.  That suggests to me that they never had the health and financial wellbeing of other human beings in mind.  It is greed!  If one even had half a conscience, one would never try to exploit others’ ill health, especially that of the less fortunate, and profit from it.  Most of us are supposed to have religious or family values.  What happened?

           In earlier posts, I thought that most scientists would expect the occurrence of this vicious cycle sooner or later.   To me, it was only about 16 years ago.  Not soon enough, when compared to the length of my career.   This is because the drug technologies in which we are trained prompt us to just do our own tiny part(s) of the whole picture, totally ignoring, or unaware of, the fact that when a new drug enters our extremely well organized and functioning body containing billions of chemicals and cells, it meets apparent ‘organized’ chaos and causes more chaos.  It will take our body much more than a few decades to get used to the brand-new drug before allowing it to deliver its true benefits, if any.   And it takes time! This was what happened to our foods and traditional medicines eons ago when our ancestors tried them and found them safe and beneficial only after many of them, through generations, were probably poisoned, became ill and recovered, or died; then we have inherited this knowledge from them.  As intelligent human beings, we should be able to make this connection and reconsider our current no-win situation, unless some of us are blinded by greed.

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