Prescription Drugs Kill 6200% More Americans than Homicidal Shootings
Investmentwatchblog.com
December 16th, 2012
And how many of the homicidal shooters were also on drugs? We don’t hear much about this in the mainstream news, do we? Where are our priorities?
http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/368446/20120731/hey-mr-obama-prescription-drugs-kill-6200.htm
“In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater shooting, President Obama chimed in on the gun control debate yesterday, saying, “Every day, the number of young people we lose to violence is about the same as the number of people we lost in that movie theater. For every Columbine or Virginia Tech, there are dozens gunned down on the streets of Chicago or Atlanta… http://www.washingtontimes.com/…/25/obama-calls-measures-…/
…According to the report Death by Medicine, by Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith, the medical establishment kills 783,936 people in the United States every year.”
What he didn’t say, however, is that every day 290 people are killed by FDA-approved prescription drugs, and that’s the conservative number published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.”
As no one seems to believe these numbers are real, I’ll quote the source: The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26th 2000, authored by Dr Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
That study, which is twelve years old — and drug deaths have risen considerably since then — documents 106,000 deaths per year from the “adverse effects” of FDA-approved prescription medications.
The Rest…HERE
