Pharmaceuticals that cause the very ailments they're supposed to treat or prevent

Eliyahu Tulshinski

February 29, 2024

Safe doesn't mean it won't hurt you

Many consumers of pharmaceutics believe the FDA's declaration that a drug is “safe and effective” means it's “100% safe and effective" when in fact, the FDA is merely claiming that “the benefits of the drug are greater than the known risks” according to a formula highly prone to manipulation.

Public health officials readily admit, under congressional questioning, that "No pharmaceutical is a hundred-percent safe."

Wait, what? Reverse efficacy?

Even more shocking, though, is the fact that the adverse effects may actually consist of the very ailment from which the pharmaceutical is supposed to be protecting the patient.

Disease in spite of drug or because of it?

The proclivity of certain drugs to cause the condition they allegedly treat further distorts "safety” findings, as the emergence of disease may be interpreted not as an adverse event but rather as a consequence of not taking the drug in time. For example, should a polio case occurring shortly after polio immunization be recorded as a result of the polio vaccination or as a result of waiting until too late to be vaccinated?

Following are some examples of drugs causing the ailment from which they are supposed to provide protection:

Anti-inflammatories can cause inflammation:

NSAIDs Make Pain Worse!

The serious side effects of NSAIDs actually drive inflammation to the following tissues: lung, heart, gastrointestinal, liver, and kidneys.

Research is showing that … chronic use of NSAIDs [can] lead to joint replacement surgeries and prevent the body’s normal response to healing.

Polio vaccination causes more polio infections than wild virus. In November 2019, the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) reported that,

more children are paralyzed as a result of vaccine-derived infections than illnesses caused by the wildtype virus.

“It’s actually crazy because we’re vaccinating now against the vaccine in most parts of the world,” Vincent Racaniello, a virologist at Columbia University, tells NPR, “not against wild polio, which is confined to Pakistan and Afghanistan.”

In fact, Nature reported that the entire continent of Africa has seen hundreds of annual cases of vaccine-induced polio, but zero cases of wild type polio:

Anti-depressants can cause suicidal thoughts often leading to self-harm and/or violence to others:

Results of a systematic review suggest that antidepressants increase the risk of events that can lead to suicide and violence in adults with no sign of a mental disorder . . .

Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the team says:

“We found that antidepressants double the risk of suicidality and violence, and it is particularly interesting that the volunteers in the studies we reviewed were healthy adults with no signs of a mental disorder.”

Antipsychotic drugs can cause psychoses:

Tardive psychosis

Tardive psychosis is a term used to describe new psychotic symptoms that begin after you have been taking antipsychotics for a while. Some scientists believe that these symptoms may be caused by your medication, not your original illness returning. The word 'tardive' means that it's a delayed effect of the medication.

This risk of tardive psychosis is one reason why it’s a good idea to withdraw slowly from your medication, if you decide to stop taking it.

Kidney disease drugs can cause kidney problems. CellCept can cause edema and infections, the hallmarks of the nephrotic syndrome it is sometimes prescribed to treat, while its DNA blocking causes a host of additional issues, including liver and heart disease, high blood pressure, low platelets and blurred vision.

Cancer treatments can cause cancer, according to Cancer.org:

Second Cancers Related to Treatment . . .

[S]ometimes having cancer treatment can put a person at higher risk for second cancers . . .

Risk of developing second cancers after radiation therapy

Radiation therapy was recognized as a possible cause of cancer many years ago . . .

Past radiation exposure is one risk factor for most kinds of leukemia, including acute myelogenous leukemia (AML), chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), a bone marrow cancer that can turn into acute leukemia, has also been linked to past radiation exposure. The risk of these diseases after radiation treatment for cancer depends on a number of factors, such as:

How much of the bone marrow was exposed to radiation
The amount of radiation that reached the bone marrow
The radiation dose rate (how much was given in each dose, how long it took to give the dose, and how often it was given)

Most often, these cancers develop within several years of a person's radiation treatment . . .

Solid tumors

There is also a risk for other cancers, which are mostly solid tumors, after having radiation therapy. Most of these cancers develop 10 years or more after radiation therapy. The effect of radiation on the risk of developing a solid tumor cancer depends on factors such as:

The age of the patient when they were treated with radiation. For example, the risk of developing breast cancer after radiation is higher in those who were treated when they were young compared with those given radiation as adults . . . Your age when you get radiation treatment has a similar effect on the development of other solid tumors, including lung cancer, thyroid cancer, bone sarcoma, and gastrointestinal or related cancers (stomach, liver, colorectal, and pancreatic).
The dose of radiation. In general, the risk of developing a solid tumor after radiation treatment goes up as the dose of radiation increases . . .
The area treated. The area treated is also important, since these cancers tend to develop in or near the area that was treated with radiation. Certain organs, such as the breast and thyroid, seem to have a higher risk for developing cancers after exposed to radiation than other organs.

Chemotherapy

Some types of chemotherapy (chemo) drugs have been linked with different kinds of second cancers. The cancers most often linked to chemo are myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Sometimes, MDS occurs first, then turns into AML. Acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) has also been linked to chemo. Chemo is known to be a greater risk factor than radiation therapy in causing leukemia.

The risk gets higher with higher drug doses, longer treatment time, and higher dose-intensity (more drug given over a short period of time). Chemotherapy agents that have an increased risk for second cancers include:

Alkylating agents (mechlorethamine, chlorambucil, cyclophosphamide, melphalan, lomustine, carmustine, busulfan)
Platinum-based drugs (cisplatin, carboplatin)
Anthracycline topoisomerase II inhibitors (etoposide or VP-16, teniposide, mitoxantrone)

Targeted therapy drugs

Some drugs used to treat cancer are called targeted therapy drugs because they were designed to find and attack certain genes or proteins that are in specific types of cancer. Targeted therapies are newer, so not a lot is known about the risk for second cancer yet . . .

Vemurafenib (Zelboraf^®) and dabrafenib (Tafinlar^®) are drugs that target the BRAF protein. They are used to treat melanoma and are being studied for use in other cancers. People taking these drugs have a higher risk of squamous cell carcinomas of the skin. [Emphases added.]

Statistics that lie

The result of all such manipulations is that a pharmaceutical can be categorized as safe if its serious adverse effects are attributed to other causes.

Check back for the next installment of our series of drug side-effects to see who is responsible for telling patients about potential side effects.

And see our previous coverage of COVID and the mRNA injections: