Posts Tagged ‘painkillers’

Drugs are a prescription for disaster for both the patient and the planet.  In Worcester, Mass the Drug Enforcement Administration coordinated a one day effort to clean out the areas medicine cabinets. Vicodin, Percocct, and Lorazapam, which are taken for anxiety, were among the drugs collected with other medications that had been sitting in people’s bathrooms for decades.

People brought bags of pills including types of powerful painkillers and anti-anxiety drugs. This program was coordinated by the Drug Enforcement Administration which is coordinating the program nation wide. The goal was to empty homes of legal, but dangerous drugs that the authorities say are driving addiction and crime around the country.

The collected drugs will be incinerated instead of flushed down the toilets, which can release them into the water way. Think of it this way tap water may hold the key to pain and anxiety relief.

Medicine is What Ails You

Medicine is what ails you, because pharmacology is the market driver of health care. Embracing this new approach to health is causing the business landscape to prosper, while hampering our health, and destroying our natural environment. The environment impact will linger on for generations.

Avoiding medication means the solution to health care has to take a 360 degree turn. Fuzzy thinking and greed has brought us to this point. The human body has an untapped potential for healing, and every drug used on a long term basis dampers that possibility.

Prescription Revolution

The prescription revolution means we have to thing outside the bottle, and explore the world of natural healing. Medicine is an alarmist; all it does is tout the dangers of almost everything. Our systems are always in a state of flux. Blood pressure changes by the hour, sugar may spike, an ache or pain may pop up. What we have to do is connect each symptom to what we are doing and then gear up a plan for change. There are bumps and dips in our health, however taking pills make it harder for our systems to go up or down on their own.

Green and natural living is the foundation for true health. Health is an inside job, pills may have ingenious advertising to back them up, but pills can’t clear the way for optimal health.

Acetaminophen is found in a number of prescriptive medications and over-the-counter drugs. It is in over-the-counter preparations such as Tylenol and generic equivalents. Several painkillers contain a combination of acetaminophen and caffeine. A survey by the Slone Epidemiology Center of Boston University showed that acetaminophen is the most used drug in America. It is taken weekly by about one in five adults. Acetaminophen dangers come from using it according to directions as well as going above the stated guidelines.

In America, inappropriate use has been cited as the cause of acute liver failure. When you take acetaminophen medication along side either coffee, or caffeinated soft drinks, you risk liver damage. The findings were reported in the October 2007 issue of the Journal Chemical Research in Toxicology. It was taken from the preliminary laboratory study conducted at the University of Washington in Seattle. Now the brains behind the formulas that combine acetaminophen and caffeine to stop pain from either migraines, or PMS symptoms, may be killing more than the pain.

Most people know or hopefully know that consuming alcohol with acetaminophen-containing medication can cause live damage. Along with the typical American diet that puts you at risk for fatty liver syndrome, acetaminophen puts you at risk for liver damage. There is another very disturbing finding. that has come to light recently. The problem is when you do not eat much because of a stomach virus, flu, or dental work; you are at a higher risk of acetaminophen liver damage even with the recommended doses. Under regular conditions the enzymes in your liver help remove toxins produced by the drug. When you go a long period of even days without much food those enzymes do not work as well.

Fasting reduces the store of glutathione, which is needed to metabolize acetaminophen safely. Acetaminophen dangers occur even at recommended doses. There is a risk of liver damage even when you follow instructions. This drug puts children and adults at risk just from vomiting or having their calories reduced because of illness. The drug can also damage the kidneys, when used over an extended period. About 10 percent of kidney failure is linked to acetaminophen. Acetaminophen dangers are real, and reflect the problems with relying on chemical answers to health problems.