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A Prescription for Drug Detoxification
If you’ve ever taken prescription drugs or are currently taking them, it’s time to detoxify! Prescription drugs load the body with toxins. They deplete nutrients, disrupt metabolism and have the potential to cause addiction..

Antidepressants
Antidepressant medications are the first line of defence used by most medical doctors and psychiatrists for treating depression. Newer medications are advertised as "improved," with "fewer risks and side effects.

Addiction by Prescription
The medical establishment’s drug approach to normal fluctuations of mind and emotion is seriously flawed.

The Sad State of Mental Health in Canada
Mental illness is definitely on the rise.

Seniors: Hooked on Drugs
About 75 -per -cent of seniors 65 and older living in private households take prescription or non-prescription drugs on a daily basis. For institutionalized seniors, this jumps to a whopping 96 -per -cent.

Women and Drugs: One Size Does Not Fit All

“One size fits all” is common in the drug industry, with the same dosage often recommended for everyone. This prescribing mentality is beyond absurd - it’s dangerous, even deadly..

When is it Depression?
Over the years, prescriptions for antidepressants have multiplied. According to Statistics Canada 10 percent of the population age 18 to 24, nine percent age 25 to 44, 6.

Death by Doctoring
Antibiotics and other commonly prescribed drugs can deplete the body of essential vitamins and minerals. Regular supplementation is needed to reduce the effects of pharmaceuticals on our nutrient levels when these drugs must be taken.

The Nutritional Cost of Prescription Drugs

The Heartbreaking Story of Avandia
Is the FDA asleep at the wheel? Despite warnings from their own scientists that the diabetes medication Avandia has been associated with increased severe cardiovascular risk and death, the Agency recommended (in July 2007) that the drug stay on the market.

Problem Prescriptions
When a patient has a serious adverse reaction to a prescribed drug, she probably—and logically—believes her experience will have a meaningful impact on the health care system. Unfortunately, the reality is quite different.

Pushing Prescriptions
You’ve seen them on television commercials: middle-aged men skip down the street like deliriously happy lottery winners. Women pass on a secret cure as if it were the key to everlasting life. Senior citizens perform their best Plácido Domingo imitations in the shower.