Drug Money Pulls the Wool Over the Eyes of Americans

Terrorism, or even the threat of it, causing the presence of a plastic gun to shut down a government building, massive blackouts adversely affecting millions of people, arson-ignited wildfires destroying nearly a million acres of land, solar explosions and millions of people, including children, being put on mind-altering drugs.

Sensationalism brings death and destruction to television sets every morning, noon and night. 

Fear.  That is what is being driven into the hearts and minds of Americans on a daily basis.  When life seems too difficult to confront, people often turn to drugs, either illegal or prescription, to create an altered state of mind to temporarily cope with the problems.

This common reaction of turning to drugs is a huge profit, and those that are in the business of manufacturing, trafficking and selling drugs love to see the money roll in and will stop at nothing in an attempt to discredit or destroy anything or anyone that oppose a society on drugs.

The illicit drug trade has been estimated to be more than a $100 billion annual operation.  With huge profits comes a certain amount of power, enough to enlist the help of governments, including well-documented accounts of the United States' own CIA drug trafficking.  The depth of this deadly power is yet wholly unknown, but another less-suspect facet is the legal drug business.

In a report issued by the Common Cause Education Fund (CCEF) in 2001, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association (PhRMA) and its member companies paid an estimated $360 million for lobbying, advertising, and political donations to protect their ambitious legislative agenda.  The report says that agenda has resulted in higher costs and less access to affordable drugs for the truly sick and elderly, and special tax breaks for what is considered to be one of the world\s most profitable industries.

The drug company benefits often include millions of dollars for research from the federal government, only to turn around and sell the drugs that are developed back to the government for an even greater profit on top of billions of dollars in annual sales to the general public.  That's just the beginning.

The PhRMA was recently cited in a Time magazine article as claiming that as many as 10% of American kids may suffer from some mental illness and that twice as many have shown some symptoms of depression.  Of course they would say that, the more people on drugs, the more money they make and the more of society, the medical profession and big media conglomerates they can control.

Additionally, pharmaceutical manufacturers often give millions of dollars to universities to study new drugs in different applications, including off-label use, typically acting in conjunction with the latest neurological disorder made up by the American Psychiatric Association and only releasing those that appear to be favorable to them. 

These two industries, psychiatry and legal drug manufacturing, have combined to conjure up 374 mental disorders, as listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV).  The number of disorders increases with each edition and most of them recommend to be treated with mind-altering drugs.  Sometimes it's hard to figure out which came first, the new disorder or the drug to treat it.

Let's not forget the fact that what are considered to be harmful street drugs today, such as cocaine, heroin, LSD, ecstasy, etc. were once developed as supposedly having some type of medical or psychiatric benefit.  Where does that put today's legal drugs fifty years from now? 

Never mind the fact that these drugs are deadly and addictive today.  Insurance companies are more likely to reimburse patients and treatment providers for pharmacotherapy than for actual rehabilitation, hence the upshot of co-occurring disorder units in many mainstream medical model addiction treatment centers.

This covertly insidious operation isn't the answer to the increasing societal problems; it is the cause of them.

Thankfully, in the midst of it all, there is an underdog with an even more powerful weapon called truth.  Fighting off attacks from those who benefit by putting people on drugs and expanding in the face of it by producing real results, the Narconon program offers effective solutions to end addiction through full rehabilitation based on the drug-free methodology developed by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard.  The results speak for themselves, and that is why the international Narconon network is 36 countries strong and growing.

To get help for a loved one addicted to drugs, contact Narconon Arrowhead today at www.stopaddiction.com or call 1-800-468-6933.  It's time to wake up our nation and solve addiction, not put more people on drugs.

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