Prescription Drugs – What are they really doing?

Rev. George H. Malkmus

Editor, Hallelujah Health Tip

While I was in Florida these past ten days, the husband of one of our staff members almost died. About a week ago, this gentleman, who is in his seventies, went to the dentist to have a tooth pulled. Apparently the dentist didn't get the entire tooth out and he went back to the dentist in pain. While the dentist was trying to remove the rest of the tooth, this gentleman started feeling light headed and the dentist took his blood pressure. It was elevated. So the dentist told him he would not work on the tooth any more until the blood pressure had been lowered.

Well, to make a long story short, he went to the Emergency Room where the doctor gave him a drug (poison - all drugs are poisons), supposedly to lower his blood pressure - but he gave him the WRONG drug! This gentleman had a very severe reaction to this first drug, so the doctors gave him a second drug (more poison) which was supposed to stop the reaction. This second drug AGAIN was the WRONG drug! Only this time, the reaction was so severe the gentleman almost died.

Please remember him in your prayers! He is doing better, but is not totally out of the woods as yet.

Have you ever questioned the use of drugs? Do you realize that every drug is a poison to the body and potentially liver toxic! The Bible condemns the use of all drugs in the book of Revelation Chapter 18 and Verse 23, where we are told, "...for by thy sorceries (drugs) were all nations deceived." The Bible word for sorceries comes from the Greek word, phar-ma-kia, which in today's English would be translated as DRUGS.

It is so amazing to me that we condemn the use of such drugs as alcohol, nicotine, heroin, cocaine, and the like, and yet willingly allow a drug to enter our body because a medical doctor prescribes it or because it is available as an over-the-counter drug.

Are you aware that the only information the doctor who wrote the prescription and the pharmacist who filled that prescription knows about that drug, is what the drug company representative or the drug company literature told them?

We live in a day where there are drugs to help us sleep and drugs to help us stay awake. There are drugs to keep women from becoming pregnant and drugs to help them become pregnant. There are drugs to increase our appetite and drugs to suppress our appetites. There are drugs to help control high blood pressure and drugs to thin the blood. In fact, there is a drug for almost every physical symptom a person can experience.

There are thousands upon thousands of drugs available by prescription and over the counter. Many of today's so called 'wonder drugs' will be quietly removed from the shelves in the future, as they learn of the adverse reactions and often deadly results people are experiencing as a result of using them.

Drugs are made to appear very glamorous in the slick, full color, magazine ads - but if you will turn the page over, you will find the potential side effects in very small black print. If people would only read the small black print, they would probably never allow that drug to enter their beautiful God made body temples.

Then there are the constant parading of these drugs on television as the drug companies present their drugs to the American people. Next time you see one of these adds on television, pay close attention to all of the adverse reactions people may experience as a result of taking that particular drug. Usually the adverse reactions are spoken very rapidly after the drug has been made to sound so glamorous.

During the past few years, there have been several very revealing articles that have appeared in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. The articles concerned the drugs they administer and the medical mistakes made by doctors.

In an April 1998 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, we learn that over 106,000 Americans die each year from the side effects of these doctor-prescribed drugs while over two million have to be hospitalized.

Then in an October 1998 issue of this same prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association, we learn that an estimated 180,000 people are killed each year by medical mistakes that largely go unreported.

Incredibly, according to their own flagship journal, the medical community acknowledges almost 300,000 drug and doctor-caused deaths each year. This figure makes the current medical system the third highest CAUSE of death in America.

"Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth."

- III John 2