Why Drugs Kill

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Why Drugs Kill JoAnn Guest Jul 09, 2003 13:22 PDT

Drugs: Killing People Right and Left

 

 

Why Drugs Kill in the Long Run

 

In the Bible, in the Book of Revelation Chapter 18 and verse 23, we are

told, " …for by thy sorceries (drugs) were all nations deceived. "

 

The Biblical word for sorceries comes from the Greek word, phar-ma-kia,

which in today's English would be translated as drugs.

 

Drugs are a topic we are hearing more and more of as we are about to

enter into the 21st Century. But the word " drugs " often means different

things to different people.

 

If you were to ask many people, " What is a drug? " you would probably

receive a variety of answers. Some might answer that drugs are harmful,

addictive, substances such as alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, marijuana, or

the like. Others might say drugs are good substances that doctors

prescribe and that can be purchased in a drug store that are supposed to

take away our physical problems, such as headaches, high blood pressure,

etc.

 

But for most people, the word " drugs " has a negative connotation. Public

opinion polls show that a large percentage of Americans cite drugs as

one of the most destructive problems facing our country today. Strangely

enough, it is not uncommon for people to discuss the terrible influence

of drugs on our society as they gather for coffee, light up a cigarette,

pick up a prescription, or bring home some colas for their children.

 

Sadly, drugs have become such a pervasive influence in our society today

that most Americans take drugs every day, and many do not even realize

they are addicted to drugs. So, we need to ask, what is a DRUG anyway?

As we turn to Webster's Dictionary, we find several definitions: " A

substance used in ... chemical operations; a substance used as a

medicine ... a substance other than food intended to affect the

structure or function of the body... a substance that causes addiction. "

 

 

Most people think in terms of " good drugs " and " bad drugs, " but after

further analysis, we will see that all drugs have a negative impact on

the human body. All drugs could be divided into three categories, based

on their intended purpose and their level of social acceptability. As we

do, we will see there are fine lines separating these three wide-ranging

categories, and that all drugs are sorceries by which our nation has

been badly deceived. These categories include:

 

Drugs used for intoxication. Most of these are illegal and not socially

accepted. Alcohol is a notable exception, because it is a legal

intoxicant that is taxed, encouraged by advertising, and socially

accepted in many circles.

 

A second category could be called " grocery store drugs " , because these

drugs have become so much a part of our diet that many people view them

as food items. They can be purchased at any supermarket or convenience

store in America. These include tobacco products (with the addictive

drug nicotine), coffee, colas and chocolate (which contain the addictive

drug caffeine), and processed sugar, which is an addictive drug that can

have very powerful affects on mood swings from hyperactivity to

depression.

 

A third category would be medical drugs, which are supposed to relieve

physical symptoms or help us to achieve a desired effect. There are

thousands of drugs on the market available to treat practically every

disease and disorder you can think of. And of course, we have diet pills

(drugs) to help us lose weight, sleeping pills (drugs) to help us sleep,

stimulants (drugs) to keep us awake, and antidepressants (drugs) that

are supposed to put us in such a stupor that none of this will ever

bother us again. There are new ones on the market every year. Some of

these drugs are prescribed by doctors and others can be bought over the

counter. When we include colas, coffee, prescriptions, over-the-counter

medications and painkillers, it would be shocking for most Americans to

do an honest count of how many different drugs they consume.

 

Dividing drugs into different categories can allow many people to

justify their drugs as " good, " while they label other drugs as " bad. "

But under careful analysis, these three categories break down, as does

the distinction between " good " and " bad " drugs. Any doctor or hard-core

drug addict can tell you that many drugs prescribed by the medical

profession are among the most powerful forms of intoxication and mood

altering that can be found anywhere. It is not uncommon to become

addicted or suffer severe side-effects, or even death, from drugs

prescribed by a physician. Dozens of medical drugs -- ranging from

painkillers such as morphine and Demerol to stimulants ( " speed " ) and

antidepressants ( " downers " ) -- are sold on the street as illegal drugs.

Is it " bad " when drug addicts are buying morphine on the street from

drug dealers, but " good " when other people are having the same drug

prescribed to them by medical doctors? And is it " bad " when addicts buy

amphetamines (speed) on the street, but " good " when people who may be

equally addicted acquire their stimulants by prescription or from coffee

and colas?

 

And speaking of addiction, U.S. government studies have found cigarettes

are six times as addictive as heroine. (That means that a heroine addict

is six times more likely to be able to quit that drug than a smoker is

able to kick the cigarette habit.) The cigarette industry is one of

several examples of how merchants with a financial motive have the power

to lead millions of people to become addicted to their drug. This fact

practically guarantees the sellers of that drug will have a " repeat

customer " for life. Cigarettes were once handed out for free. Our

government cooperated by allowing free cigarettes to be part of the G.I.

rations in World War II. That's not allowed any more, but pharmaceutical

companies use the same strategy today by giving free samples of their

drugs to medical doctors to dispense to their patients. (They also give

financial incentives to doctors who prescribe their drugs.)

 

And what about the morality of a company that gets pre-schoolers to

identify with a cartoon figure like Joe Camel? Or the logic of a drink

with a whole paragraph of artificial chemical ingredients being called

" The Real Thing? " Most colas have more caffeine than coffee and up to 11

teaspoons of sugar. When merchants market a drink containing a stimulant

such as caffeine, known to be an addictive drug, along with sugar that

rots our teeth and robs calcium from our bones, we are being deceived

even by calling this a " soft drink. " How many people have even

considered how outrageous it is to call something " soft " when it rots

our teeth, destroys our immune system and is addictive? I have even seen

young mothers putting cola into baby bottles for their infants! We are

being deceived if we believe a product is safe just because it is

advertised on television, endorsed by a famous star or prescribed by a

physician.

 

Whether we are talking about illegal hard-core drugs, alcohol, tobacco,

colas, or pharmaceuticals, some of the most underhanded methods ever

seen are used to get people to try drugs. From the cocaine cartels in

Colombia to ad agencies and lobbyists in the halls of our U.S. Congress,

merchants who profit from the sale of drugs are backed by some of the

most powerful and manipulative forces in the human race. Drugs are big

business, so powerful and manipulative organizations are necessary to

ensure the profits of these merchants continue to grow.

 

What does the Bible say about these merchants and their deceptions? We

began with a brief excerpt from Revelation 18:23. The Book of Revelation

was written around A.D. 96, long before the modern era of Colombian drug

cartels, multi-national corporations along with their slick ad agencies

and Congressional lobbyists, but Chapter 18 contains several references

to the " merchants of the earth who are waxed rich through the abundance

of her delicacies. " (18:3). Revelation 18:23 clearly states that it is

the " merchants " who have led all nations to be deceived: " And the light

of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the

bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for

thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries

(drugs) were all nations deceived. "

 

So, how badly have we been deceived by these merchants and their drugs?

An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that illegal drugs are bad,

and most would now also say the same about alcohol and tobacco. And we

are gradually becoming more educated about the evils of caffeine and

sugar.

 

But drugs prescribed by a medical doctor continue to have an aura of

respectability. After all, they are approved, prescribed and dispensed

by the medical profession for the public's well-being. So, there are

millions of Americans who have the good sense to avoid intoxicants

(legal or otherwise), and who are smart enough to not smoke cigarettes,

and who may even avoid colas and candy bars... but they still think they

are safe in going the drug route as long as it is prescribed by their

physician! Yet, even these people have been deceived by drug-selling

merchants!

 

The front page of the January 9, 1995 issue of U.S. News and World

Report in big, bold letters proclaimed " DRUG ALERT! " With the following

in less bold print: " What your doctor may not know: The undisclosed side

effects of some prescription drugs could hurt or even kill you. " Inside

this magazine on page 50 we read " 2 million hospitalized and 140,000 die

each year from prescription drugs. "

 

In a front page story in USA TODAY under a bold heading " Prescribing

Harm, " we read: " 37% of people older than 60 are taking five or more

drugs and 19% seven or more... Among older patients given three or more

prescriptions upon leaving a hospital, 88% had one or more problems; of

those, 22% suffered potentially serious or life-threatening problems. "

 

" The disturbing message, " says Dr. David Himmelstein, of Harvard Medical

School, is that 25% of the USA's elderly are getting " drugs that are

likely to do them more harm than good. " The USA Today article also

quotes Dr. Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen Health Research Group as

saying " young and old are being given the wrong doses and the wrong

combinations. " The article adds: " 16,000 car crashes a year are due to

adverse (drug) reactions... 61,000 people suffer drug-induced

Parkinson's symptoms... 41,000 people a year are hospitalized for ulcers

caused by drugs … " The article provides many more incredible statistics

describing the devastating side effects from drugs prescribed by

doctors.

 

As we turn from these horrible headlines at the close of the 20th

Century, let's go back to the Bible, God's instructional manual for

mankind. It is written " for I am fearfully and wonderfully made… " (Psalm

139:14). As we turn to the very first verse of the Bible, we read: " In

the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. " (Genesis 1:1). Then

follows the six days of creation culminating in Genesis 2:7, we read:

" And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed

into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. " God

then placed this wonderful creation in a beautiful garden.

 

As we look back to the beginning, back to God's creation of mankind, and

Back to the Garden, where God placed that original couple, we see that

God gave instructions as to what should be used for nourishment to

sustain the human body in perfect health. And what did God say? He said

that only raw fruits and vegetables are to be our food! (See Genesis

1:29.)

 

We find no drugs in the Garden or in the entire book of Genesis. This

book covers nearly the first 2,000 years of human history. In fact, it

isn't until we get into the New Testament, some 4,000 years after

creation that we find the first mention of a physician: " And a certain

woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many

things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was

nothing better, but rather grew worse. " (Mark 5:25-26).

 

As we look at all the physical problems mankind is experiencing today,

it is obvious something terrible has happened between the time of

creation and this present day. The basic problem is that the wisdom of

God has been replaced by the " wisdom " of man. Man thinks he is smarter

and knows more than God. Nowhere is the ignorance and foolishness of man

more obvious than in the area of what we should and should not put into

our bodies to maintain this beautiful temple God has given each of us.

In our ignorance we are taking better care of our automobiles than we

are our body/temple.

 

Because man has thought himself smarter than God, and replaced God's

wisdom with his own, man is experiencing ever more rapid physical

deterioration, agony, and early death.

 

I contend this is all happening because man has replaced God's wisdom

with his own wisdom. The Bible states in I Corinthians 3:19, " For the

wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. " Sadly, the Christian

community is just as guilty of turning its back on God's wisdom as the

rest of the world. The Christian community has been so programmed by the

world's wisdom concerning the physical body that even preachers and most

Christians often have great difficulty accepting God's way of caring for

our body/temple.

 

As we look at the human body, we see a very complex piece of living

machinery, with many systems -- the digestive system, the circulatory

system, the lymphatic system, the endocrine system, the elimination

system, just to name a few -- all designed to work in perfection

according to God's design. These beautiful body/ temples can only

function properly when provided with the proper building materials

within a non-toxic environment. And the only substances God designed to

be placed in these beautiful body/ temples of ours are raw fruits and

vegetables, pure water, fresh air and sunshine! That's it! Anything else

put in our body is a toxic (poisonous) substance, contrary to God's plan

and will usually produce physical problems.

 

Sickness is clearly not God's plan for man. " Beloved, I wish above all

things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul

prospereth. " (III John 2). Many believe we get sick because of sin or

because of old age, or because we inherited it, or that a germ, virus or

bacteria chose us as its victim. But in most instances, this just isn't

so. We get sick and experience physical breakdowns, because we put

things into our bodies that God never designed these bodies to consume.

And that is where we take up our subject for this treatise -- Drugs: A

Killer of Mankind!

 

Earlier we read in Webster's Dictionary that a drug " is a substance

other than food... that affects the structure or function of the body. "

God designed these beautiful body/ temples with a genetic blueprint, DNA

and RNA, that recognizes only raw food as nourishment, and anything else

as a toxic substance. Our body is an incredibly unique chemical plant

created by God that operates on electrical impulses and reacts

chemically to all that enters. Everything we consume must be dealt with

by the body either as nourishment to help rebuild our living cells or as

a harmful, foreign substance that must be neutralized and expelled.

 

Sickness and disease are actually the body's efforts to deal with the

toxic substances we have placed within them. A cold is the body's effort

to discharge toxins. A fever is the body's effort to burn up poisons.

Plaque build-up in the arteries and tumors are an effort by the body to

encapsulate and rid itself of toxic substances. A headache is the body's

warning device telling us there is a problem inside. Diarrhea and

vomiting are efforts to rapidly remove poisons... And on and on we could

go. These symptoms are the body's reaction to us consuming harmful

substances. We must realize the symptom is not the problem -- it is the

body's effort to deal with the problem.

 

What is the solution? We can take two approaches: We can accept God's

way by eliminating from our diet that which created the physical problem

and begin nourishing our body with the foods God originally intended for

us to consume. Thus we facilitate our body's ability of self-healing. Or

we can go the world's way and take a drug to suppress the symptom. What

the drug does is cause a chemical reaction within the body that will dry

up the runny nose, for instance, or take away the fever or headache. But

the drug taken to create this chemical reaction is another toxic

substance that only further complicates the problem, because now the

body has to deal with even more poison! All drugs are toxic to the

system and create new problems! The solution to our physical problems is

not more pollution!

 

Every drug is liver toxic, even an aspirin! Every drug causes a new

problem for which another drug is often necessary to relieve the

symptoms of the previous drug. The taking of drugs places a person on a

vicious downhill spiral that will create ever more physical problems and

ultimately end in an early demise.

 

In a recent issue of Reader's Digest, there were seven double-page ads

for different drugs. Each of these ads pictured a happy person and the

text told how this particular drug would relieve some symptom they were

experiencing. Yet as you turn the page over, on the back side of the

beautiful two-page color spread, you find in very small type in black

ink on white paper the adverse potential side-effects that can be

experienced if a person uses that particular drug. This is known as a

" disclaimer. " Thus, if you take their drug and get sick, develop cancer,

destroy your liver or die, they can use this as a protection against

lawsuits, saying, " See, we warned you. " This type of disclaimer is also

found on cigarettes and alcohol containers. And a person with cancer has

to sign a paper saying that they will hold the medical doctor or

hospital guiltless if the chemotherapy (drug) makes them sicker, causes

their hair to fall out, destroys their immune system or causes their

death.

 

The whole approach of the medical community is wrong when it comes to

using drugs and other harmful treatments (radiation, chemotherapy, etc.)

to deal with disease. They are always talking about cures and treatments

for specific symptoms but they will never find a way to cure disease

through the use of drugs!

 

The medical community cannot find a cure for our physical ills no matter

how much money or time they spend searching for a cure. Man has been

searching for cures for his physical ills for ages. Yet to this very

day, in this enlightened age with all of the scientific laboratories and

financing, they have yet to find a cure for even a common cold. Where is

the cure for constipation? For indigestion? For pimples? To say nothing

of cancer, arthritis, diabetes, heart disease or AIDS.

 

The medical and scientific community tells us they are working on a cure

and if we will give them ever more money for research, they will

eventually find a cure for everything that ails us. My friend, they will

never find a cure, because there is no drug or treatment that can heal

our bodies of anything! We have been taught from childhood that when we

get sick, we need to get a treatment for the disease, disorder or

symptom. What we fail to understand is that before we can heal or get

well, we must remove that which is causing the physical problem!

 

Knowledge is the greatest need in this " dark age " of ignorance in which

we find ourselves. We need knowledge as to how God made us... knowledge

as to the nature and purpose of disease... knowledge of how to live and

nourish these physical bodies so they will not break down and get

sick... knowledge of the truth about life! This is the crying need of

our day, and until we turn back to the God who made us and the guide

book (Bible) God has given us, and start taking care of our body/ temple

the way God intended, we will continue to walk in darkness and get

sicker and sicker

 

Medical treatments must be replaced by education about healthy diet and

lifestyle! Doctors must stop offering costly cures that do not cure and

taking the money from people for that which does not make them well. The

frenzied search for cures must cease! Drugs, radiation and surgeries

only create new problems.

 

We are dealing with more than just the drugs of the medical profession.

We are suffering from the drug effects that come from cigarettes,

alcohol, soft drinks, coffee and more. The nicotine, alcohol and

caffeine in these products also create monumental problems in the body.

And there are other toxic substances that man is putting into his body

that are usually not even recognized as drugs. Sugar is one of the worst

of these drugs, a toxic substance that destroys our immune system.

 

Any substance we consume must be dealt with by the body either as

nourishment or as a toxic substance. Even cooked food has a drugging

effect upon the body because the life-force (enzymes) have been

destroyed by the heat, thus our living body does not recognize the dead,

devitalized, cooked food as nourishment. It is interesting to note that

a person's white blood cell count will not rise when raw foods are

placed within the body, yet will increase when that same food, only

cooked, is placed within the body. And we know that a rise in the white

blood cell count is an indication that the body is doing battle with a

toxic substance.

 

What is the answer? Here at Hallelujah Acres, we teach that all we need

to do to be well and maintain perfect health is nourish our bodies with

living food according to God's plan. We have found that when we live and

nourish these physical bodies the way God designed, that physical

problems almost always simply go away and that we never experience

sickness again. Twenty years ago, when I changed from the typical

American Diet and lifestyle to nourishing my body God's Way. All

physical problems simply disappeared in less than one year, and I have

lived free of any physical problems ever since. And my experience is not

unique! We have thousand upon thousands of testimonials from people who

have written or called to tell us how they too had a similar experience.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

super read - printing it out to absorb more from it later, thank you

for sharing it here. ) Jan

 

PS thinking of trying to replace steroid decadron( for hubby's edema

from brain surgery) - with alfalia - any thoughts? (I hate hate hate

what steroids do to him)

[Guest guest]

, " JanPM "

<pipersmama> wrote:

> super read - printing it out to absorb more from it later, thank

you

> for sharing it here. ) Jan

>

> PS thinking of trying to replace steroid decadron( for hubby's

edema

> from brain surgery) - with alfalia - any thoughts? (I hate hate

hate

> what steroids do to him)

 

Jan, IMHO steroids would accelerate angiogenesis (spreading the

cancer) to other parts of his body. After all steroids are

artificial hormones. Hormones are extremely problematic for any type

of cancer. You may have to take the initiative there, if you wish to

see results. Although it is in your best interests to stop the

drugs, I know from experience it must be done very discreetly. We

usually take the prescription home and stays there, if you know what

I mean. Somehow it never makes it to the pharmacy. <g>

 

Alfalfa is a good herbal tonic, however Dandelion and Reishi

(mushroom) would be better choices in my opinion. These herbs tend

to slow down mestasis (formation of new capillaries which cancerous

lesions feed from).

It might be good to take an immune stimulting herb such as echinacea

purpurea or astragalus also. They would help immensely.

Cancer initially starts with a loss of immune function. In a healthy

body, cancer cells are swiftly annihilated!

 

Hugs, JoAnn