As of writing this article, the number one book bestseller on immunology on Amazon is Dr. Pierre Kory’s The War On Ivermectin. This book covers how Ivermectin was shown to be an effective medicine for covid based on many studies, but was attacked by the pharmaceutical industry, largely due to the fact that in order for the covid vaccination to get emergency authorization for use, there had to be no other medicines that could effectively treat covid-19. The covid vaccination now has largely been a failure that is getting harder to ignore. the inability to stop transmission and failure to prevent deaths from covid is so prevalent that the Washington Post published a news article about how the majority of deaths as of November of 2022 have been fully vaccinated.
This is not the first example of an effective medicine getting attacked by the pharmaceutical industry and government regulatory agencies. More recently, the medical use of the plant Kratom has been attacked, from efforts to make it a Schedule 1 drug to the FDA saying that the plant has no medical use. However, scientific studies say otherwise. An article in ScienceDirect shows that the medical use of Kratom significantly decreases the prevalence and severity of adverse effects from opioids. This medical use of Kratom is especially important now since 79,770 opioid-involved drug overdoses were reported in 2022 alone. Kratom has been used for generations to alleviate withdrawals from opioids. The plant has also been used as a natural pain reliever. There are risks from using Kratom as well and lethal outcomes have been reported, but the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Pharmacology states that current scientific knowledge makes these reports impossible to determine.
“Case studies, poison control center briefings, and tallied coroner and medical examiners’ reports have disproportionately emphasized, as these forms of inquiry often do, extreme and rare events, including seizure, liver damage, and death, even as some have elucidated that adverse health outcomes from kratom exposure have been mild to moderate and resolved quickly. In February 2018, the FDA cited 44 cases of kratom-associated deaths based upon coroner or forensic toxicologist reports. However, at the current level of scientific knowledge, several factors make it impossible to determine whether kratom contributed to lethal outcomes. Almost all of the cases cited involved adulterated kratom products and/or the co-ingestion of substances with fatal overdose potential, including heroin and synthetic opioids.”
Another example of the restriction of effective treatment is the use of MDMA for treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. This conclusion is shown in an article in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Medicine.
“MDMA did not induce adverse events of abuse potential, suicidality or QT prolongation. These data indicate that, compared with manualized therapy with inactive placebo, MDMA-assisted therapy is highly efficacious in individuals with severe PTSD, and treatment is safe and well-tolerated, even in those with comorbidities. We conclude that MDMA-assisted therapy represents a potential breakthrough treatment that merits expedited clinical evaluation.”
There has recently been bipartisan legislation to legalize MDMA medically for this purpose, but MDMA remains a Schedule 1 drug, meaning that it is not legal for any purpose.
One of the likely reasons effective treatments like these are being discredited or banned for any medical use is that the FDA is heavily influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, and FDA advisers receive payments from the pharmaceutical industry after drug approvals. The NIH is also heavily influenced by corporations. I am planning to write a book on this topic.
Sources:
War on Ivermectin Book
Washington Post Article
Kratom Decreases Severity of Opioid Adverse Effects
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378874119304994?via%3Dihub
79,770 opioid-involved drug overdoses in 2022
Lethal Reports Impossible to Determine, Most Caused by Other Dangerous Synthetic Opioids.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.801855/full
MDMA effective treatment for PTSD
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01336-3
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NIH Conflicts of Interest
