I can contribute with a small anecdote, in the same direction, hoping that it fits here: Today I talked with the GP of my children about the medical sector/ pharma sector as a selfish industry which is just monetary and not contributing to our health..
He told me that there is a medical psycho drug which is also used for children and youngsters, from which he knows that a professor in the USA was bribed to counterfeiting the studies to bring this drug to the market. The med itself would be very dangerous with many nasty sideeffects, especially for children.
I told hime vice versa, that I was given a psycho drug, from which is now revealed that some hospitals in Germany are bribed to prescribe their patients. And that there was a big article about this drug in a GErman leading political magazine, that the effect of this med is very negative and contraproductive on the long run. And nevertheless, it is prescribed and is one of the cash cows of that pharma company. I had got this med with an off label use, but it is not allowed as off-label drug by the way. I have got it to calm my nervous system. Well, it worked for a while.
In the end we found out, that we talked about the same psycho drug!!
There is already a "red hand" letter for this med. Saying that it can cause sudden death under certain circumstances (for older people for example). And in the instruction leaflet I found that this med can shorten your life up to there decades (!!) due to serious muscle deseases. That was exactly what I needed
I had certain side effects, I can hardly describe. Then I tried to taper it. First I phoned the prescribing hospital how to do...They laughed at me on the phone and told me....ok. You can just try...After reading a lot about it I found out that a high percentage of patients never manage to taper it. Because the detoxification is so hard. Well I managed. And I am still here...With all of my problems I had before.
Hope this is not too much heavy stuff for this board. But in general I think that this is no new story. All I want to say is, look at the manual (I do normally but did not in this case). Many things are helpful. But some make our problems even worse..
German