Medicine and medications are based more around profits than they are results in the United States

To start, there are next to 0 limitations on dietary supplements in the United States. It is legal to make nearly any claim as to to the effects of supplements without having the claims grounded in anything that could be considered near fact. Claims can be utterly fabricated. In addition, it is illegal for any foods in the United States to claim that they can have a positive affect on an individual's health as that is only allowed in the cases of medicine. For this reason, foods that have been scientifically proven to aid an individual's health are not allowed to claim said information. Instead, individual's are encouraged to pursue avenues of medication rather than natural remedies for bodily issues. Drug use itself is blatantly misappropriated within the United States. The CIA has been under suspicion for taking part in the trafficking of cocaine in Central America for decades. In addition to this, medications which would not allow for pharmaceutical profit are generally swept under the rug whereas medications that gain pharmaceutical companies profit are encouraged almost universally. It has been proven that "magic mushrooms" can have extremely positive effects on mental diseases such as depression and OCD when used in a clinical setting. http://www.cnn.com... -However, despite this information and the low cost of using such a method of treating mental health disorders, the drug is not used in the treatment of patients. Instead, other drugs with significantly more short and long term side effects are used in treating such mental health diseases. Such side effects include nausea, insomnia, anxiety, decreased sex drive, dizziness, weight gain, tremors, sweating, fatigue, diarrhea, constipation, headaches, and more. http://www.helpguide.org... The pharmaceutical industry is debatedly the most profitable industry on the planet. The median annual American pharmaceutical company profits is over 3 times the amount of all of the fortune 500 companies. It would be impossible to maintain these types of profits if the FDA was not compliant in the pharmaceutical companies introducing new drugs to the market. As the FDA is part of the United States government, it is in the governments' best interests to preserve one of its most powerful industries. Former Editor in Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell once wrote "Its time to take the Food and Drug Administration back from the drug companies" (Boston Globe, February 26th, 2007). In 1992, the FDA passed the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, which authorizes drug companies to pay "user fees" to the FDA for each brand name drug considered for approval. This user fee act put the FDA on the payroll of the very industry it's intended to regulate. For this reason, it also drastically changed the way the organization operates, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the drug companies. The part of the agency that reviews new drugs gets more than half its money from user fees. This is underscored by the composition of the FDA's 18 advisory committees. Many of these advisers work as consultants for drug companies. As a result of these factors, the FDA now oftentimes behaves as if the pharmaceutical companies are the users rather than the public. In 2010, the fee revenue given by the pharmaceutical industry to the FDA was over 500 million dollars. One example of how this has been abused by the FDA is in the area of cancer research and drug administration. Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski developed a form of cancer treatment decades ago named antineoplastons. He's been using the treatment with great success on his patients for decades and patented the treatment well over 2 decades ago. Since that time, the United States has filed 11 separate patents on what Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski already had a clear patent for, all of them being patent infringement. http://www.burzynskimovie.com... It's too important a thing to keep the profits in the hands of the corporations and industries rather than a single individual with a treatment option for a specific disease. The profits themselves have become more important than the treatments. Dr. Richard Crout, Director of the FDA Bureau of Drugs, once wrote in a 1982 newsletter: "I never have and never will approve a new drug to an individual, but only to a large pharmaceutical firm with unlimited finances." Dr. Julian Whitaker sums up the case of Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski by stating "How can the US Patent office be corrupted to the point they issue patents for a medical treatment that's already been patented and issue them to someone who had nothing to do with their discovery or use? And how can the Patent office then assign these fraudulent patents to some of the most powerful institutions in the American government? And, imagine, all of this was done while these same agencies were spending millions of taxpayer dollars trying to put Dr. Burzynski in jail, so he could not fight the criminal theft of his discovery!" Because the FDA is largely in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry, the administration of and testing of drugs has become subject to their needs rather than the needs of the people. This makes the goal of the industry to be more about profits than about helping the people.