Friends ‘better than morphine’ – Larger social networks release more pain-killing endorphin, University of Oxford reports People with more friends have higher pain tolerance, Oxford University researchers have found. Katerina Johnson, a doctoral student in the University’s Department of Experimental Psychology, was studying whether differences in…
By Carey Wedler According to new reports, Prince was in possession of painkillers at the time of his death. Law enforcement sources cautioned they could not yet determine whether or not the pills were related to the death of the beloved icon last week. Conflicting statements…
By Heather Callaghan Most people don’t wish for forced medication, doled out through their vegetable and fruit intake. Did you know that much of our so-called conventional crops are fertilized with sewage or irrigated with reclaimed waste water? And did you know that it’s possible…
By Carey Wedler A new survey by the National Safety Council concludes 99 percent of doctors overprescribe prescription opiates to patients. According to the nonprofit’s analysis, nearly all doctors who participated in the survey are “prescribing highly addictive opioid medicines for longer than the three-day…
By Chris Veritas Have you ever stripped naked on a plane without cognition, cooked a meal in the middle of the night unawares, or woken up in some strange place, not knowing how on earth you got there? If so, you might be an Ambien…
By Catherine J Frompovich Everyone probably is familiar with the world population growth clock. Likewise, there’s the time-bomb-like clockwork for the United States national debt. But has anyone ever imagined what a clock would be like that ticks off Big Pharma’s impressive records? Such a…
Medical tourism has grown rapidly over the last decade. As an online travel agency, FlightHub has heard from multiple customers who have gone overseas to receive medical care in other countries. While many may think this is a case of people from third world or…
By Josh Mur Many may remember Martin Shkreli (AKA the “Pharma Bro”). Shkreli is the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals and made headlines across America after his company purchased the drug Daraprim and hiked the price from $13.50 to $750.00 per pill. Daraprim costs approximately $1 a pill…
By Carey Wedler A preliminary analysis has concluded that over 75 percent of high school students who use heroin previously used prescription painkillers. The study’s authors implicated not only pharmaceutical opioids, but the nature of drug education in the United States, suggesting students do not…
By Sophie McAdam A pilot scheme in the South of France aims to treat a wide range of ailments with nothing more than good old-fashioned fun. Doctors in Biarritz, France are making waves with a progressive new way of treating illness: prescribing surfing and paddleboard…
By Catherine J. Frompovich This is a “heads up” and “take notice” recommendation for parents whose children routinely are taking the most frequently prescribed ADHD prescription drug Ritalin®. Late in November of 2015, the prestigious Cochrane Library issued its report “Benefits and harms of methylphenidate for…
By ANH-USA Robert Califf doesn’t think his many ties to pharmaceutical companies will affect his objectivity in regulating the industry. Congress seems to agree, but we don’t. Action Alert! Last Tuesday, President Obama’s nominee to take charge of the federal Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Robert…
By Alex Pietrowski Depression is epidemic in our society, and the mainstream solution is a trip to the psychiatrist and an indefinite prescription for pharmaceuticals. Dependent on psychotropic drugs to get by is no way to live, and in the search for happiness, both individuals, doctors and…
DTRHRadio On the September 22nd edition of DTRH, Popeye welcomes back to the broadcast friend, author, and researcher Heather Callaghan of Natural Blaze. The two of them get into a bunch of topics including: PTS – why do we call it PTS? How nutritional deficiency…
By Heather Callaghan Like a script from a movie you already know the ending to; each year we can expect a hoax study or attack on anything that is not FDA approved. It is with great hope that the average person will have enough sense…
By John Vibes Outspoken drug critic Dr. Carl Hart recently made comments in the media about how the popular big pharma drug Adderall is pretty much crystal meth. Dr. Carl Hart, an associate professor of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University who specializes in drug…
By Marco Torres We have new pharmaceuticals being introduced every year for fictitious and nonsensical diagnoses such as Mathematics Disorder, Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Orthorexia Nervosa (healthy eating) and so many other inventions called diseases for the sole purpose of selling more drugs….
By Dr. Mark Sircus I am proud to have been the one to coin the term pharmaceutical terrorism, which is an important concept if one is to understand the world of medicine, and how badly people are being hurt by it. The above image is…
By Phillip Schneider In 1996, California was the first state to legalize the use of Cannabis for medicinal purposes. Since then, the past decade has been ripe with research into the potential medicinal benefits of Cannabis. During this time we have learned that Cannabis can potentially…
By Sayer Ji, GreenMed Info What if millions of medical diagnoses, procedures, and treatments were based on, at best, questionable scientific evidence, but still performed daily, the world over, in the name of saving patients lives or reducing their suffering? A new JAMA review indicates this…
