It’s safe to say I do not vibe with the pharmaceutical industry. Here are some reasons why:

1. “One of the best-kept secrets in all of health care—understood by few doctors—is that the peer reviewers, medical-journal editors, and guideline writers, who are assumed to be performing due diligence to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the data reported from company-sponsored studies, do not have access to the real data from these trials. The published reports that doctors accept as fully vetted scientific evidence can be more accurately described as unverified data summaries prepared largely by or for the sponsoring drug companies.”

Brought to you by Dr. Abramson’s book, Sickening. So basically, the people who are supposed to be making sure the medication they give us is backed by actual evidence, is actually NOT backed by actual evidence, but instead by interpreted data. In other words, we’re being lied to so they can make profit.

2. According to the FDA’s adverse event database, in 2021 the FDA received a total of 2,333,453 adverse event reports. In 2021 alone, drugs killed 187,750 Americans.

Source. Yet, they want to try and vilify the natural supplement industry, even though national reports consistently show zero deaths from dietary supplements.

3. “The Sackler family, owner of Purdue Pharma, L.P., sparked the opioid epidemic by flooding working-class communities, cities, and rural areas with OxyContin — a high-strength, popular opioid pill. In the early 2000s, they ran a highly successful ad campaign that changed medical practice so opioid pills became the default treatment for chronic pain. Working in tandem with other major companies, they were able to convincingly make false claims about the safety of the drugs, manipulate data, fund false studies and even alter scientific papers to show a less than 1% risk of addiction. Which is clearly not the case as it is HIGHLY addictive. Much of the industry was in charge of providing the FDA’s income, a symbiotic relationship which meant that the FDA was unable to be truly subjective in its drug approvals.”

Source 1. Source 2. So not only are they falsifying important data, but they’re also paying the people who are supposed to be regulating them. If they’re doing this with highly addictive pain medication, you can imagine they are doing this with other medications.

4. “Through the marketing of opioids from 1995 to 2014, the Sackler family accumulated immense wealth reaching billions of dollars — while according to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 400,000 people died from opioid overdose between 1999 to 2017.”

Source. Blood money.