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Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet

Mad in America

Pharmaceutical spending in the U.S. The Downsides of Pharmaceuticals for Health Management While prescription drugs can be lifesaving or increase your quality of life, it can be damaging to rely solely on pharmaceuticals for your well-being. In certain cases, pharmaceuticals can harm public health.

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3 middle class families across America share what they earn, spend, and save

Work Life

“Plus, food prices in Spain are cheap,” she says. “What used to be the non-sale price is now the sale price.” For ” For instance, the sale price of chicken is now $2.29/pound Tyler and Vivienne are aware they need to shore up their retirement. pound rather than $1.99/pound.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

Mad in America

FDA approves Food and Drugs—on the basis of assays. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. A century ago, Paul Ehrlich, whose research helped create the modern pharmaceutical industry, saw the ideal medicine as a Magic Bullet, a drug that hits a target without causing collateral damage.

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Medication Overload, Part II: The Explosion of Drugs for Kids

Mad in America

Despite evidence of the dangerous nature of this product, along with mounting pressure from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and child safety advocates, the aspirin industry denied any negligence on their part and instead blamed the reported safety concerns on poor parenting. Which is exactly what happened with children’s aspirin.

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I was laid off and now my manager wants my help, I don’t want my company car, and more

Ask a Manager

My role was to open and then manage a new sales office. I manage about 15 events every 12 weeks (each event being 3-4 days long) and am in charge of every aspect of the events (on-site logistics, travel, venue accommodations, food and events, agenda and educational sessions, sponsors, speakers…the list goes on). Great, right!?

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

In these interviews, I have talked about the components of the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex, along with how psychiatry meets the political needs of the ruling class and dysfunctional families. Mainstream media is another major player in the psychiatric-pharmaceutical-industrial complex.