THE WAR ON  DRUGS

President Bush’s 2003 budget included $19.2 billion dollars in anti-drug spending to control illegal drugs;  $150 billion was spent on legal drugs in the U.S. in 2003

The United States consumes five times as much Ritalin (the prescription drug of choice for children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder, ADD) as the rest of the world combined

80% of U.S. adults take at least one doctor prescribed drug each week, 7% of the population takes 5 or more prescription drugs in any given week and 25% take 5 or more of any kind of drug weekly (JAMA, January 16, 2002)

The U.S. is one of only two nations on the planet that allows drug companies to advertise prescription drugs directly to its citizens. 

Drugs companies spend $4 million a year on media advertising.  They append another $15 million a year on marketing to doctors and medical schools.

Dr. Barbara Starfield of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health:

There are over 250,000 deaths a year in the U.S. from iatrogenic causes (caused by a doctor’s care).  This makes the allopathic medical model the third leading cause of death in the U.S. after heart disease and cancer

Starfield states each year negative effects from drugs also produce:

116 million extra physician visits
77 million additional prescriptions to counter the effects of the previous drug
17 million emergency room visits
8 million hospitalizations
3 million long-term admissions
199,000 additional deaths, over 300 per day
77 billion in extra health care costs

People in the United States currently spend more on health care than any other country on earth and rank 37th in world health according to the World Health Organization

Better living through chemistry has failed!!!

The key to health is learning to maximize the healing capacity that all of us were born with.   Drugs and surgery ignore this capacity.   Most medical doctors believe that there is a problem outside of you making you ill.  They try to heal from the outside in.

Chiropractors are health coaches.  We teach patients to improve diet, exercise, have better lifestyle habits, and of course, to improve the nervous system by removing and preventing subluxations.  
We help you to maximize your innate god-given healing capacity from the inside out.

2005