The first post, is a concise summary of various studies concerning drug metabolism. I am highly critical of the allopathic healthcare system worldwide, the collusion amongst health care practitioners, health care providers, pharmaceutical industries, and the involvement of politicians, very often, owning majority shares in Big Pharma. With the latter spreading its tentacles further, will there be an implosion or will be it Pharmageddon?

It is an abhorrence, whenever a medical doctor throws in a caveat about alternative practitioners, whilst denying the harm prescribed drugs cause.

Moreover, I came across an article published by Swedish scientists today. It concluded that death caused by drug poisoning, is very common in Sweden. The article can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6904/9/7

There are thousands of published articles concerning drug metabolism, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics. These articles clearly indicate that, prescribed medication is only effective for a very small percentage of the population.

Drug metabolism are dependent upon the aforementioned, and other extraneous variables. A study in Spain concludes that 6 out of 10 patients in hospital die of an Adverse Drug Reaction. This is indeed very high and is similar to studies carried out in Finland and the USA. See the article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080707112653.htm " Individual response to small-molecule drugs is variable; a drug that provides a cure for some may confer no therapeutic benefit or trigger an adverse reaction" Nature Genetics 39, 496 - 502 (01 Apr 2007), doi: 10.1038/ng1991. Note the disparity in earlier scientific articles acknowledging metabolizing drugs is multi-factorial as opposed to more recent articles almost blaming the patients's genes.

It is simply not possible for any one single prescribed drug to be effective in most of the population. According to published articles, interpatient variability, polymorphisms, and other factors such as ethnicity, age, health status, and biochemistry involvement which we are not aware of. The fact is that whenever medication is taken, invariably, it goes into tissues and sticks to DNA adducts for a very long time. This causes genetic mutations and disease. http://jcp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/37/7/635?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=glutathione+raising&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT

There is an urgent need for a paradigm shift in medicine. Instead of aggressive chemical compounds, pharmaceutical industries should focus on restoring health, modulating pyshiological and biochemistry systems. The onus is on Big Pharma to "Do No Harm."

Although, this is a provocative first post, the intention is prevention, and more importantly, that patients should be responsible for their own health. Always read the list of side effects and take note. You could be one of the statistically "rare" victim of iatrogenic medicine.