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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 76
These deaths amount to a minimum of 500 daily across America. That’s equivalent to the
3,000 death toll at the World Trade Center on 9/11 every 6 days. Every month 15,000 people die.
These are sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, grandmas and grandpas. Each death impacts entire
families and also friends.
But prescription drugs manufactured in America don’t just impact American’s because
the US is the largest exporter of prescription drugs in the world. In 1979, of the fifty largest
multinational pharmaceutical companies in the world, twenty-three were from the US.
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In 1999,
US majority-owned foreign subsidiaries of US multinational pharmaceutical companies had
$25.3 billion in prescription and non-prescription drug sales.
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In 1999, total exports of
prescription and non-prescription drug totaled $13.5 billion; this figure grew to $18.6 billion by
2001.
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Total US foreign drug sales for 1999 amounted to $38.8 billion. While this figure is only
30% of US sales, since the US markets drugs in other countries for less than one half of the price
in the US; it would be safe to estimate that the quantity of drugs sold overseas was at least 70%
of the total that was sold in the US.
Based on this, we can estimate that at least 129,500 and as many as 300,300 people a year
die around the world on account US prescription drugs. But the US doesn’t sell the same drugs in
foreign countries that it sells domestically. In third world countries it sells drugs that have been
banned and drugs that have never been approved in the US. Between 1997 and 2000 ten
medications were withdrawn from the US market “because of serious often lethal side effects.”
These include: Rezulin, Lotronex, Propulsid, Redux, Pondimin, Duract, Seldane, Hismanal,
Posicor, and Raxar.
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These are just ten of a long list of banned drugs, which can be sold
overseas.
What’s even worse is that many of these banned or unapproved drugs can be bought
over-the-counter in foreign countries. Even worse yet is many of them don’t have adequate
instructions or precautions.
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In the US both your doctor and pharmacist will instruct you on
taking your prescription properly and if a person has a bad reaction to a drug they can call their
doctor, make an appointment and if necessary go to the emergency. For many people in third
world countries this is not an option. Doctors simply aren’t readily available. For example, in the
US there are 580 doctors for every 100,000 people, in Mexico there are 130, in Canada 57, and
in Bangladesh there is 1.
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If people in third world countries are buying our prescription drugs over-the-counter you
can bet they are also self-prescribing. And many are doing this without adequate or proper label
instructions and cautions. Under these conditions you can be assured that there are going to be a
whole lot more than 129,500 foreign deaths per year as a result of US drug sales overseas.
While prescription drugs can be deadly they can also be very expensive. “The drug of
choice” for treating a woman’s breast cancer “could cost her as much as $2,500 per month for
the rest of her life.”
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Although they are expensive, patients are not necessarily getting what they
are paying for, which are longer lives. Dr. Contreras says that Chemotherapy is frequently the
cause of death for cancer patients and not the cancer itself. He writes in his book The Coming
Cancer Cure:
As a cancer surgeon, I know of no magic bullet. Conventional therapies
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