Upton Sinclair and “The Jungle” existed one hundred years ago. Now in the twenty-first century, the pharmaceutical giants mandate the health status of the working class in the United States. The drugs they produce hopefully extend life, and in most cases, they do, except for delayed toxic effects. It used to be that all pharmacological agents useful to mankind, were cultivated, harvested extracted, and purified into oral forms for the betterment of society and the nation as a whole. Aspirin which comes from the bark of a tree, and derives from the culture exudate of common molds, and cannabinol which derives from cannabis sativa, in addition to others form the mainstay of agents used to promote health and rescue working human beings from the ravages of infectious disease. Before antibiotics, waves of plague and pestilence swept nations and destroyed our intelligent beautiful children. People who live in today’s world do not realize that antibiotics are the only factor that helps them live past 40 years of age and that disease used to take our most loved children.
It is too expensive to culture, harvest, and purify drugs so the pharmaceutical giants create drugs cheaply by forming them in steaming pots. The miracle of organic chemistry that gives us polymer pistols and plastic fighter jets also gifts mankind with a plethora of prescription-only drugs. These drugs, if they work, if used chronically, evoke cancer of the pancreas, cancer of the liver, leukemias, and lymphomas. The bulk of this paper serves to enumerate illustrations of what the American Medical Society prescribes for the working class to save their lives and yes, to save a buck. Administrators put the bulk of the National budget for health care into their own pockets and prescribe carcinogens for the public so they die after they retire. A retired worker does not create income, and if they die inauspiciously, the corporation and the government do not have to pay them a pension.
If a person lives long enough, they eventually develop diabetes. The medical society depends on these phenomena for their livelihood. Metformin, which is a mainstay of diabetes type two, makes a patient acidotic and induces a fatal heart arrhythmia. Sulfonylureas, the other agent used to treat high blood sugar, causes leukemia after chronic use. Insulin, which President Biden promises to keep cheap, is only indicated in unstable ketotic diabetics and if needed can be delivered in a protamine zinc or neutral protein Hagedorn preparation delivered at most once a day. Current medical dogma has diabetics walking around with insulin infusion pumps delivering normal insulin continuously. Many years ago, the only indication for regular insulin was diabetes ketoacidosis or hyperosmotic glucose crisis and now people run around like robots with large pumps stapled to their abdomen. Please lord up above, tell me, am I missing something?
If a person lives long enough, due to metal accumulation and eating a lifespan of beef, their blood pressure rises continuously by about 10 mm Hg per decade of life after fifty years of age. There exists no satisfactory treatment for high blood pressure. The agents that highly intelligent, religious, and altruistic doctors prescribe all induce cancer of the pancreas after ten years of chronic use. The only treatment for high blood pressure is to get drunk and smoke pot and yes, stop eating top sirloin strip steaks. I will reveal how the pharmaceutical giants produce such incredible incomes. A third of the National budget subsidizes the making of carcinogens and pays administrators working in plans who carry out such a nefarious schema.
An organic chemist makes drugs by boiling organic precursors in pressure cookers bought at Walmart.
A biochemist takes an x-ray microscopic picture of an enzyme the scientists want to inhibit, that they think causes disease. With this picture, the chemists delineate the size of the enzyme’s active site and build organic molecules in a pressure cooker. To make a large ring structure, a chemist utilizes a precursor molecule then adds carbons to it and then nitrate derivatives to form a cyclic structure. Each nitrogen a chemist adds to form a ring structure has a pair of unbonded electrons in a sp2 hybridized configuration. This makes the ring structure a nucleophile and the ligand bonds to the DNA and destroys it. The more nitrogen, a chemical has in its structure is directly proportional to its carcinogenic potential. To make Minipress, a potent antihypertensive agent, a cook puts chemical waste in a pressure cooker, urinates into it, and cooks the mixture for an hour. When filtered, the person has pure Minipress.
Long aliphatic chains on a molecule are also potent carcinogens, as taught by a tall dark-haired man, former chief at the big U. These are phrased as aliphatic carcinogens and exemplified as Benz-aminopyrine.
Anti-hypertensive agents with long tails are marginally effective and at most decrease the blood pressure after chronic use at most 5 mm Hg. This author knows and measures. They are not even marginally effective. They have super names like cardiolol and others. The drug causes cancer by wrapping the long tail around the phosphate backbone of DNA, rendering it incapable of replicating and the cell becomes cancerous. The new agent for diabetes, a polypeptide structure has long aliphatic tails bound to the molecule to increase the rate of diffusion and this agent also may be a direct-acting carcinogen.
In Mexico, high blood pressure patients turn blue from ingesting hydrochlorothiazide, also known as Hydrodiuril, and they all commit suicide when told they have cancer of the pancreas. The list goes on and on. The PDR is so verbose it is hard to decipher intent, and the subsections are written by chemists with a law degree.
This author does not have an answer for this hubris. “if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem”. This author is not a soothsayer or mediator. It says in the good book that Dios puts on earth everything mankind needs to help themselves. They just have to find it, grow it, harvest and purify it. Life is a lot of hard work for everyone except the fortunate few. I guess a chemist can add a ring structure here or there if they belong to a church. I will stand my ground and I won’t back down.