You know we have gone too far when top doctors are being paid off by big pharmaceutical companies to push drugs onto the 
public, or when the known dangers of a particular drug are kept hidden for the sake of profit. This is not an occasional occurrence, but an everyday affair in the world of Big Pharma.

Last week it was revealed that Purdue Pharma and members of the Sackler family knew that prescribing high dosages of OxyContin for long periods of time, increased the patients risk of serious side effects and could get them addicted.  McKinsey & Company, the high powered management firm, instructed Purdue Pharma on how to go about increasing sales, even as drug enforcement agents were trying to reduce opioid use.

Then there are articles on the conflicts of interest among doctors and institutions who are not revealing the money that they are getting from pharmaceutical companies, before they publish leading papers in medical journals. There was the Dean of Yale’s medical school, the director of a cancer center in Texas, the next president of the most prominent society of cancer doctors, and of course Dr. José Baselga, the top doctor at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, who resigned after failing to disclose millions of dollars in payments from drug companies. These are just a few examples, but the list goes on, and pharmacies are blossoming! They are popping up on every corner, and they are selling then drugs and foods that make people sick.

Having just enjoyed many talks by leading world experts on Food as Medicine, at the Real Truth About Health Conference this past week, I am floored that so many people are so willing to ‘take a pill’ to make their problems go away, instead of doing the work to get themselves healthy.