They survived live fire, explosive devices, terror attacks and grueling desert conditions. But upon returning home to seek treatment for the mental anguish that too often accompanies war, the concern is very great for U.S.soldiers.  Are they now being killed by the pharmaceutical industry?

A recent example is found with the late Senior Airman Anthony Mena, who returned home from Baghdad only to be killed by a toxic cocktail of prescription medications in his apartment in the USA.  As the New York Times reports, a toxicologist found eight prescription medications in his blood.   See the complete news article here:  (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/u...).

Those drugs included painkillers,  sleeping pills, antidepressants and a sedative. The medical examiner concluded that Anthony Mena died of multiple pharmaceutical toxicity. He was only 23 years old.

Is the Pharmaceutical Industry killing more soldiers than enemy combatants?

Anthony Mena is just one of a fast-rising number of U.S. soldiers who are being drugged to death by psychiatrists and physicians who dish out painkillers and psychotropic drugs without considering the serious side effects.

Those interactions are never

tested in clinical trials (yes, never!). The position of the

FDA

and Big Pharma seems to be that the more drugs a person takes, the better they'll get, and doctors are trained in med schools to keep prescribing pills with possibly no concern about the extreme toxicity of various pharmaceutical combinations. Their motto is, "For every ill, there's another pill."

Now the body count is rising. Today,

one-third of the U.S. Army is on at least one prescription medication, and many of those are psychiatric meds used to treat PTSD.

Think about that astounding statistic for a moment: One-third of the U.S. Army is on synthetic chemicals.  Some of those chemicals, by the way, have been linked to suicides and violent behavior, especially in young males. What kind of formula for warfare is that, anyway? Take a young male, put a rifle in his hands and a psychiatric medication in his head, then let him loose on the front lines and see what happens?

An Army report says that 101 soldiers have died from toxic pharmaceutical combinations in 2006 - 2009, but that report almost certainly vastly underestimates the true numbers.  Most deaths are traditionally written off as organ failure of one kind or another. Very few pharmaceutically-induced deaths are ever accurately tracked back to the drugs involved... unless you're someone famous like Michael Jackson, of course.

It makes you wonder: Are more soldiers being killed by Big Pharma than by enemy combatants?

It's not out of the question.  The 9/11 terrorist attacks killed approximately 3,000 Americans. Yet, according to well-researched estimates based on published scientific studies, FDA-approved prescription drugs currently kill anywhere from 98,000 - 250,000 Americans a year. Remember, that's every year!

I hear stories like this over and over again in my office.  They are so sad and most of the time, people don't want to talk about it to the general public -- because it makes people uncomfortable.    People are more apt to share these stories with me since they know how passionate I am about educating people that they have choices that are non-toxic.  I think that we need to start sharing these stories.  If you had a child die who mixed 2 pharamaceuticals together (anti-depressants mixed with pain killers can be a very deadly combo), would you not have wished someone would have shared with you the dangers of these meds together?  So many people are not aware that these drugs are so dangerous together (not that individuals don't die on just one of these meds - because they do)

In natural medicine, we use non-toxic medications, vitamins, minerals and herbs found in nature.  Individuals respond very well treating depression, anxiety and stress disorders to these natural modalities.  Every one's plan is very unique and is not a cookie cutter approach.

Interesting fact:  B-12 shots rapidly deplete your body of other B-vitamins.  Taking any of the b vitamins by themselves is a putting you at risk for depletion of other nutrients.

Article provided in part from Natural News