Do you know where your prescription medicine really comes from and what it is really doing to you? Of course you don't, because for most of you, pills are a way to justify your physical sicknesses and poor mental conditions that would otherwise have been cured by living a healthy lifestyle.

Drug companies and doctors prey on this weakness of yours by treating your symptoms and not the cause. Drugs are beneficial in some cases but should be prescribed only to stabilize a patient as part of an overall effort to require the patient to live a healthy lifestyle.

Drug companies playing the part of the drug pusher and not the healer has transformed them into a profit making machine. These hard selling pharmaceutical companies' many corruptions can be read in former editor-in-chief of The New England Journal of Medicine Dr. Marcia Angell's book The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It.

Even the quality of drugs is suspect in this lucrative industry:

Stolen, compromised, and counterfeit medicine increasingly makes its way into a poorly regulated distribution system, where it reaches unsuspecting patients who stake their lives on its effectiveness. Tragically, we cannot trust the purity of the costly drugs supplied by our most reputable drugstore and hospital pharmacies…. (dangerousdoses.com)