Re: More evidence emerges that Americans are drugged out of their minds

Interesting how the thread has been psychiatry which is what my post was that you are responding to and how you so slyly changed the subject.

You know, no one knows how many thousands of people are killed by alternative medicine.  (Americans spend $33 billion a year on it, not including vitamin supplements.)  You know why?  Because there are no alternative practitioners who can sign a death certificate and by the time you reach the morgue no one has a clue as to whether you were personally utilizing alternative medicine or not.

All I've go to say is that for all the folks out there who claim they will never go to a doctor - I hope you have a card in your wallet or purse specifying that request just in case of an accident and you are injured because if you don't, that's exactly where you are headed.

One very important factor that all of that "death by doctor" BS totally ignores is the fact that Americans (and the industrialized world in general) are living longer - in spite of the epidemic of the SAD diet (and I agree that it is bad), obesity and Type II diabetes and the other ills that go with it.  Death by cancer is also decreasing.  That in mind, the USA still isn't up to the standards of many other countries regarding longevity but it continues to see increases in that area all the time.

Your link is just more proof of the greed of practitioners - regardless of who they are and they are not better in their sales promotions than the pharmaceuticals.