The Antidepressant Truth - What is the Big Pharma Hiding?
If you are taking or thinking about taking antidepressants for treating your depression, then you need to pay attention.
There are many things about the big pharmaceutical companies that you do not know about, but should.
You should be doing your homework and not relying on your doctor to tell you if a medication is good or safe.
In fact, many doctors are not as qualified to prescribe medications as they would like you to believe.
This can not only cost you an extra expense, but can also jeopardize your overall health and well-being.
First of all, many doctors are not trained in the areas of pharmaceutical drugs, and only know about these antidepressants from what the drug representatives tell them.
Do you really think the sellers of drugs are going to be straight with your doctor and tell them all of the negative side-effects? Some of these medications to treat depression can not only make your symptoms worse, but in many cases have side-effects that can seriously hurt vital organs in your body, cause weight gain, and all sorts of things.
There are even kick-backs and other incentives from drug companies to the doctors when they prescribe some of these medications regularly.
Did you know even if an antidepressant medication is put on the market, it can take up to fifteen years for all the side-effects to be discovered? Did you also know that many medications, including those to treat depression are actually the same medications that were supposed to be pulled off the shelf, but marketed with a different name? There are even some companies that substitute sugar pills for the real thing, to cut their costs.
Even when caught by the FDA, many of these companies just pay the hefty fines, because they can afford to, and then continue doing it anyway.
It is not always the doctors or even your pharmacists fault in this matter.
They for the most part, take what they are told to be the truth.
It is not until after a drug has been found unsafe, or has hurt patients, that they realize they were lied to.
Did you know that if a drug is on the market, it can be advertised without the FDA's approval? The FDA relaxed many ad regulations in 1997, I wonder why that is? In the next year, over 45 different ads for prescription drugs, including some of the most popular for treating depression, were issued violation notices for not being accurate and/or disclosing all of the side-effects? For this and many other reasons you need to really do your homework before taking ANY kind of medication.
It is also important to know that there are many natural remedies to replace antidepressants, and that many of these are being snuffed out by the big pharmaceutical companies for a reason.
If you are seeking some kind of natural remedy, and you see drug companies putting it down, look for the real reason.
Why are they calling it unsafe and untested? Maybe these natural remedies work far better than the expensive drugs they are trying to push on you for treating your depression.
There are many things about the big pharmaceutical companies that you do not know about, but should.
You should be doing your homework and not relying on your doctor to tell you if a medication is good or safe.
In fact, many doctors are not as qualified to prescribe medications as they would like you to believe.
This can not only cost you an extra expense, but can also jeopardize your overall health and well-being.
First of all, many doctors are not trained in the areas of pharmaceutical drugs, and only know about these antidepressants from what the drug representatives tell them.
Do you really think the sellers of drugs are going to be straight with your doctor and tell them all of the negative side-effects? Some of these medications to treat depression can not only make your symptoms worse, but in many cases have side-effects that can seriously hurt vital organs in your body, cause weight gain, and all sorts of things.
There are even kick-backs and other incentives from drug companies to the doctors when they prescribe some of these medications regularly.
Did you know even if an antidepressant medication is put on the market, it can take up to fifteen years for all the side-effects to be discovered? Did you also know that many medications, including those to treat depression are actually the same medications that were supposed to be pulled off the shelf, but marketed with a different name? There are even some companies that substitute sugar pills for the real thing, to cut their costs.
Even when caught by the FDA, many of these companies just pay the hefty fines, because they can afford to, and then continue doing it anyway.
It is not always the doctors or even your pharmacists fault in this matter.
They for the most part, take what they are told to be the truth.
It is not until after a drug has been found unsafe, or has hurt patients, that they realize they were lied to.
Did you know that if a drug is on the market, it can be advertised without the FDA's approval? The FDA relaxed many ad regulations in 1997, I wonder why that is? In the next year, over 45 different ads for prescription drugs, including some of the most popular for treating depression, were issued violation notices for not being accurate and/or disclosing all of the side-effects? For this and many other reasons you need to really do your homework before taking ANY kind of medication.
It is also important to know that there are many natural remedies to replace antidepressants, and that many of these are being snuffed out by the big pharmaceutical companies for a reason.
If you are seeking some kind of natural remedy, and you see drug companies putting it down, look for the real reason.
Why are they calling it unsafe and untested? Maybe these natural remedies work far better than the expensive drugs they are trying to push on you for treating your depression.
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