pharmacist drugs and you

This is a newsletter for my column in the TN Star Journal out of Pigeon Forge, TN:

Its Your Health Part 2: What is the difference between a Drug Company Teen Screen Psychological Test and a Ouija (Wee Jee) Board? Answer: The Ouija Board is false positive 50% of the time, and the Teen Screen Test, taken by the developers of the Teen Screen Test was 82% false positive: in other words, the developers of the test themselves were declared "mentally unstable" by their own test! Actually, this is a "fishing expedition" created by the makers of these new anti depressants in order to sell more drugs, this time to teenagers. The New Freedom Commission, created by President Bush, consists of members who are actually members of Pharmaceutical Companies, ready to pronounce you, and you, and you...a mental defective just so Big Pharma and Insurance companies get their money. What a SCAM! It turns out that many of these anti depressant drugs are CAUSING weight gain AND diabetes. So, treat your depression, and come down with diabetes. FACT: exercise and fresh air really do the same thing as anti depressants do, plus have the added benefit of no weight gain and better control of diabetes. Looks like Big Pharma is not really in the business of doing anything but relieving symptoms, and piling on the prescriptions.

Pity the physician who has all that education, and cannot see the forest for the trees.

Pity the PHARMACIST who has to practice in the State of Tennessee. In Hohenwald, Tennessee, a pharmacist by the name of Larry Rawdon has been called before the Tn Board of Medical Examiners because he also has a health food store and has for the past 15 years helped people get well. It now turns out that pharmacists CANNOT counsel for example: do not take aspirin if you are taking coumadin or that Acetaminophen actually causes liver damage. A pharmacist, by the TN Board of Medical Examiners CANNOT tell a doctor that there is a drug-drug interaction. That is above and beyond the call of duty of a pharmacist in Tennessee according to the Board of Medical Examiners.

In truth, the actuality is that this is a test case brought about by financing from Big Pharma which is putting forth legislation in Congress to restrict health food stores. The TN case is the first, and will result in shutting down ALL health food stores and ALL vitamins and ALL supplements. I.G.Farben has risen again.

I always wondered just why, when I worked in pharmacies there, that the majority of the time a doctor NEVER, NEVER paid any attention to what I would tell them. That was the drug they wanted, and that was that. A consultant pharmacist in that State would be hung, drawn and quartered by both the Board of Pharmacy and the Board of Medical Examiners.

And that, folks, may be the reason why Tennessee is classified as the third most obese (fat) State in the nation. And that may be the reason why people are so sick.

Upon examining the truth of freedom of choice in Tennessee, and how the prescription load per capita was 16 Rxs per person in that State, compared with the national average of 10 to 12, I simply could no longer live and practice in Tennessee.

There is an organization called Tennesseans for Health Care Freedom. Go to their website. IF, that is a big IF, your health means anything to you, go to their website and support them. Ask your doctors serious questions, don’t’ just go there and put your paws in the air. You are the one who lives in your body, and in reality, you know best. Any doctor who only spends 15 minutes with you does not know you, or your condition. Ask them questions. AND, yes, ask questions of your Pharmacist. Its about time they got into the true health care act. The Tennessee Board of Pharmacy deferred the case to the Board of Medical Examiners, despite the fact that he followed all the rules put forth by the Pharmacy Board.

As always, Eat Well and Prosper

Kern Stafford, RPh