by Michael Snyder
December 23, 2025 - So many seniors that were once so full of life are now just shadows of their former selves. It can be really easy to assume that they are “just getting old” and that nothing unusual is happening to them. However, the truth is that in so many cases the reason Amerika’s seniors are shutting down is because they are simply being overmedicated. Our entire medical system has been designed to push pills, so when seniors seek medical help that is usually the solution they are offered. The proportion of our seniors that are on at least 8 pharmaceutical drugs is truly alarming. Of course, those that consume pharmaceutical drug cocktails daily for an extended period of time are quite likely to experience very serious consequences.
Most people don’t realize that modern terms such as “pharmacy” and “pharmaceutical” originally come from the Greek word “pharmakeia”.
“Pharmacy” comes from the Greek word “pharmakeia”, which referred to “the practice of the druggist”. But here is the twist: “phármakon”, the root of the term, was a double-edged sword - it meant a plant or herb that could be used for either healing or harmful purposes, blurring the line between medicine and poison.
No society in the entire history of the planet has taken “pharmakeia” to the extremes that we have.
We are the most drugged nation that the world has ever seen, and this is particularly true for our seniors.
The Wall Street Journal recently interviewed an 83-year-old woman named Barbara Schmidt that has “filled prescriptions for more than a dozen different drugs in the past year”.
For years, Barbara Schmidt’s family feared an illness was behind a pattern of terrifying falls that repeatedly landed the 83-year-old great-grandmother in surgery with broken bones. Instead, Schmidt’s frequent tumbles might have been tied to something else: medications intended to make her better.
Schmidt, who lives with her husband of 65 years in Lewes, Delaware, filled prescriptions for more than a dozen different drugs in the past year, according to pharmacy and medical records.
After taking so many medications in such a short period of time, it really is a miracle that she is still alive today. She is far from alone.
The Wall Street Journal discovered that one out of every six seniors that is enrolled in Medicare’s drug benefit has been prescribed at least 8 different pharmaceutical drugs.
That isn’t unusual for Amerika’s seniors, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicare data. One in six of the 46 million seniors enrolled in Medicare’s drug benefit, which pays for most drugs taken by older Amerikans, were prescribed eight or more medications.
Millions upon millions of our seniors are literally being drugged into oblivion. One of the problems is that seniors often visit multiple physicians, and that can result in a lot of confusion. Of course it isn’t just seniors that are being overmedicated.
One recent survey found that 70% of Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA) adults are currently taking at least one pharmaceutical drug, and nearly a quarter of FPSA adults are currently taking at least four pharmaceutical drugs.
It is an insanely profitable industry, and that is why we constantly see ads for pharmaceutical drugs on television. They desperately want more “customers”, and seniors are the easiest target.
According to the official Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, 89% of Amerikans that are 65 years or older are currently taking at least one pharmaceutical drug.
We take more pharmaceutical drugs than anyone else in the world; so why is our life expectancy below average compared to other industrialized nations? I think that is a really important question.
When our seniors go to see their doctors, they are often not properly informed about the potential side effects of the drugs they are being prescribed.
Zoloft is the number one antidepressant in the FPSA, but most of those that are taking it do not realize that it has an extremely long list of side effects. There are many other drugs that literally list “death” as one of the potential side effects.
Earlier this year it was being reported that adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs have now become the third leading cause of death in the FPSA.
However, the big news networks aren’t going to talk much about it, because the pharmaceutical companies are their biggest advertisers.
Our politicians are unlikely to push for major reform because the pharmaceutical companies pour vast amounts of money into their campaigns.
Money is power and the pharmaceutical industry is absolutely swimming in cash.
If you are waiting for major change to happen, you may find yourself waiting for quite a while.