Americans constitute only 4.6% of the world’s population, yet consume 80% of all opioids (painkillers).¹ This statistic, which appeared in the media again this week, again caught my attention. It brought to mind this observation from Escape Fire (which aired on CNN): “… the answers are not in a sack of pills.” Bill Scott in Washington State,
“Addiction is like a chasm opening up before you and enticing you to keep walking despite the dire consequences ahead,” says Tony Lobl, a Christian Science practitioner and writer on spirituality and health living in the U.K., writing in the Huffington Post UK last fall. Lobl points out that more than one million Britons are
DRUGS “… the answers are not in a sack of pills” (from EscapeFire on CNN). “If there’s one thing that I would love to see you begin to implement in your own practice and teach others about, it’s to try to change this mindset that has so completely taken hold in our culture on the
Only two countries permit the direct advertisement of pharmaceutical drugs to consumers. Can you guess which ones? These advertisements invariably list side-effects. Ingrid Peschke, health blogger in Massachusetts, writes in The MetroWest Daily News about side-effects, placebos, and a pre-med student who found a non-pharmacological approach to health without side-effects. An interesting read: A Prescription For Health Without Side-Effects.
Consider these thought-provoking questions about grief: Is grief a mental illness? Do drugs help or hinder the healing of grief? What brings comfort to the grief caused by loss and pain? Anna Bowness-Park, of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, answers these questions in a tender, heart-warming article in which she shares how she found freedom from intense (or
Here are three articles in the news this month that indicate a growing cultural change in the use of drugs for health. (1) Heart Drugs: Too Many Medication Types Are Compromising Health, Doctors Say From Reuters, by Debra Sherman, posted on HuffingtonPost.com, March 13, 2013 Excerpts: “We are eager to add medicines and reluctant to take