Hey, Mr. Obama: Prescription Drugs Kill 6200% More Americans Than Homicidal Shootings!

• Hey, Mr. Obama: Prescription drugs kill 6200% more Americans than homicidal  shootings! 
  by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, Editor of NaturalNews.com
  (NaturalNews) In the aftermath of the Aurora, Colorado Batman movie theater  shooting, President Obama chimed in on the gun control debate yesterday, saying,  “Every day, the number of young people we lose to violence is about the same as  the number of people we lost in that movie theater. For every Columbine or  Virginia Tech, there are dozens gunned down on the streets of Chicago or  Atlanta…” (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/25/obama-calls-measures-…)
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  What  he didn’t say, however, is that every day 290 people are killed by  FDA-approved prescription drugs, and that’s the conservative number  published by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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  As no one  seems to believe these numbers are real, I’ll quote the source: The Journal  of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Vol 284, No 4, July 26th 2000,  authored by Dr Barbara Starfield, MD, MPH, of the Johns Hopkins School of  Hygiene and Public Health.
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  That study, which is twelve years old — and  drug deaths have risen considerably since then — documents 106,000 deaths  per year from the “adverse effects” of FDA-approved prescription  medications.
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  To reach this number from outbreaks of violent shootings,  you’d have to see an Aurora Colorado Batman movie massacre take place every  HOUR of every day, 365 days a year.
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  If a massacre of people using  slugs of lead is bad, why is a massacre of people using deadly chemicals  perfectly acceptable?
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  A medical massacre that dwarfs the number of deaths from shootings
  No  one in Washington talks about prescription drug deaths. There are no sobbing  victims shown on the evening news. This “chemical massacre” happens quietly,  behind closed doors. Yet to achieve this level of mass death in the world of  plane crashes, for example, you’d have to see a jumbo jet airliner crashing  into the ground once a day, every day of the year.
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  But that’s only  the beginning of the mass death caused by modern medicine, where greed-driven  doctors are routinely bribed by the drug giants (http://www.naturalnews.com/036510_doctors_bribes_drug_companies.html)  and thereby make the “Joker” James Holmes look like a boy scout by comparison.  As NaturalNews previously revealed, just one company — GlaxoSmithKline — had a  bribery network of 49,000 doctors who received financial kickbacks to  prescribe more Glaxo pharmaceuticals to patients.
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