You know.... life is complicated..... things happen and they change you. Sometimes you think things and are so convicted to pursuing those things you can lose sight of what is important. Until something shocks you and you see past the blinders that have been put around you.
I just read such an article and it is saddening and informative all at the same time. You know it is always sad that innocent people have to die for us, as a society, as ourselves, as a whole or as a whatever...... but sometimes we don't see until it is too late. It its thru tragedy sometimes that we learn 'key' lessons.
Meet. Gwen Olsen, former Pharmaceutical extraordinaire.
after fifteen years of being in the drug pushing business. In her powerful book, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher, Gwen Olsen explains why she left her lucrative career selling drugs for some of the biggest names in the business – Johnson and Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. Now she passionately advocates against the pharmaceutical industry, their unethical practices, and the hundreds of thousands of lives they lead to the grave. Gwen’s eyes were opened through a gradual course of tragic events
It was only after her niece set herself on fire that she was shocked into a state of awareness...
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Here's here story, VIA the article that I first read and decided to share (also found here)
“My niece was 20 years old, she was attending Indiana University and she was a pre-med student, an extremely intelligent, beautiful woman, and just a beautiful spirit inside and out. She was in a car accident and was prescribed vicodin hydrocodone for the pain, and became addicted.”The vicodin destroyed her niece’s concentration, leading the young woman to turn to a stimulant drug called ephedrine. The drug helped her stay awake long enough to study for school, but that’s when she had a drug interaction. “She had a drug interaction and ended up in the hospital, and they tagged her with a bipolar disorder, not a drug toxicity or a reaction to the drugs she was on.
They started giving her more antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, and that set her on the road to becoming a mental patient,” said Olsen. Soon thereafter, the young woman quit going to school as the side effects of the medication took hold. The more she tried to wean herself off, the more violent the side effects became.
A dependency had formed in the chemistry of her brain and the twenty-year-old battled a severe depression. Gwen reveals, “Her mom was on her way home to take her back to the psychiatrist and get her back on drugs. [That is when] my niece walked into her younger sister’s room and took an angel lamp that was filled with oil, and poured it over herself and ignited it, burning herself alive.The realization struck Gwen to the core and she left her career selling pharmaceutical drugs. Now she speaks out against the deception, telling the gripping story of her niece’s suicide.
Now I know medicine can and HAS helped and will continue to help countless people. But in the age where we push neurological chemicals onto people and perpetuate DARK AGES psychology we run the risk of destroying our most valuable asset-- OUR BRAIN. I mean we fully don't understand the brain and all of it functions. We THINK we do and we've THOUGHT we've known as a society since freud and it is continually proven wrong, misguided, or a little 'off'. Hell the Rosenhan Experiment demonstrates we don't even have a valid standard criteria for evaluating sanity......
Now I will admit I know doctor and I don't continually study neuroscience or genetics or 'psychology' but I can definitely tell you this: beit science, religion, morality, or philosophy...... eventually we always start to swing back to an idea where we can 'make people better' and become more than the mold we were made into.....and there can be benefits to that, but also drawbacks and consequences. Just something to think about
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