Cure For America's Drug Issues Is Not In A Pill

Cox News Service reports that the US government recommended nearly tripling the number of people using a type of drug for lowering cholesterol just one day after the Supreme Court upheld federal prohbition of using a type of drug to relieve pain and nausea. That was 3 days after the maker of a legal pain-relieving drug stopped shipping its largest dose because so many people had become addictedo it.

This is a country with drug issues.

We love the magic of pills because we hate working on our health. We love the expensive technology that makes pills seem magic, but hateaying the prices that manufacturers can charge because we hate working on our health. We love the variety of things drugs can do but hate the side effects of drugs that have the versatility to calm or heartburn and constipate us at the same time.

Public Citizen's Health Research Group says the drug industry spent more than $230 million in the last election cycle on lobbying, campaignontributions and advertisements. "...the government has conflicts of interest on a whole lot of drugs,'' says Kristine Severyn, who founded the Vaccine Policy Institute. "It sounds to me like the're saying the body can't take care of itself, so we've got to pay big bucks to some big drug company,'' says Grandview Hospital pharmacist Ron Rust.

The Bottom Line:

Healthevelopment is the conscious act of lining up successive strategies to ensure that our health develops and improves over the course of our life rather than diminishing as we age.