The Drugs Don’t Work
Posted on July 16, 2008 - Filed Under Arthritis | Leave a Comment
‘The drugs don’t work’: Should complementary and alternative therapies be dismissed so quickly, when many commercially marketed medicines are themselves unproven? Complementary and alternative therapies (CAMs) are usually considered by the orthodox medical profession to be ‘unproven’ in comparison to prescription drugs. Pharmaceutical products must undergo strict clinical testing to demonstrate their efficacy and safety before being brought to market. Unlike acupuncture, homeopathy and a whole range of other treatments, some going back thousands of years, these drugs have been scientifically proven to work, so we are told. What then are we to make of the slowly emerging fact that drugs manufacturers… Continue reading
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