Michael Jackson, A Victim of Radio Medicine

Michael Jackson, A Victim of Radio Medicine

By Steve Hayes, Director of Novus Medical Detox Center

    The Novus newsletter this week was intended to be about how to test and treat the adrenal gland.    However, the tragic death of Michael Jackson has shown the nation a very public and dramatic example of the consequences of Radio Medicine and the risks of prescription drugs.   Next week we will pick up with the final installment on the adrenals.

   A Radio Medicine doctor, instead of finding the source of the physiological problem, prescribes a drug that hides or suppresses the symptoms - like turning up the volume on the radio instead of pulling over to find the source of that annoying noise your car is making. To continue that analogy, if you lower the volume by taking the person off the drug, the original condition is now manifesting itself again and is probably worse than it was when you started taking the drugs. Just like your car, your body is breaking down because of a long term and unhandled condition.

   One of the myths concerning prescription drug-related deaths is that the people who died were all abusing the drugs.  While this is certainly true in many cases, even many of these victims were started on the path to abuse by Radio Medicine doctors, and many other victims of Radio Medicine were taking the drugs as prescribed when they died.  

   The suffering of most families losing a loved one to prescription drugs is not the subject of media attention.  The death may be mentioned in the local newspaper, but it has become so common that in many parts of our nation, it gets no press coverage at all-unless it is a celebrity like Michael Jackson.

QUESTIONS FROM THE GRIEVING FAMILY AND FRIENDS

   · "Aren't these drugs legal?"

   · "Why would a doctor prescribe prescription drugs that are this dangerous?"

   · "Why didn't the doctor warn us that there could be these side effects?"

   · "Isn't the FDA supposed to protect us from damaging drugs?"

   · "Why didn't someone help?"

THE ANSWER FROM RADIO MEDICINE DOCTORS

   · "Well, these drugs normally don't cause death."

   · "Look, this is the accepted treatment."

   · "You didn't ask me about all the possible side effects." 

   · "I don't have time to explain every possible side effect."

   · "The FDA has approved this drug."

   · "There is a label that explains everything with each prescription.  Didn't you read the label?"

   · "There must have been a mistake in the way he or she took the pills."

   · "Are you sure that he or she was not abusing the drug?"

   · "I am sorry for your loss."

WHAT MANY RADIO MEDICINE DOCTORS DON'T WANT TO ADMIT

   · "I practice Radio Medicine and am more concerned with blocking out the symptoms than in finding the cause of the person's problems because then the patient will not complain about me not handling the problem."

   · "Look, I have to see a patient every five minutes or I won't be able to stay in business."

   · "I don't have time to read the drug labels."

   · "Most of my information on the drugs came from a doctor paid by a drug company to speak at a dinner paid for by the drug company."  

   · "I heard about the drugs when attending a continuing education class conducted by a doctor paid by the drug company and the costs of my class were paid for by a drug company."  

   · "I don't have time to do any study of my own, but the drug representative is a good person and I trust what he told me about the drug's safety and effectiveness."

   · "If I increase the prescriptions for a particular drug, the drug company representative will ensure that I get rewarded."

   · "I didn't realize that the one drug would interfere with the metabolism of the other drugs they are taking.  I hope that the family doesn't find out.

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