“We Are Trained To Misinform” – Ex-Big Pharma Sales Rep Speaks Out
In Brief
- The Facts:Gwen Olsen worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 15 years and shares what her experience was. A few years ago she published "Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher." In the video below she shares her experience.
- Reflect On:Is big medicine today about health, or is it about profit and control? Is health really the industries priority?
“There
is no such thing as a safe drug.” This comes from ex-pharmaceutical
sales rep and author of the book, Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher, Gwen
Olsen.
For 15 years, Gwen was living an
unintentional lie, working as a pharmaceutical sales rep for some of
today’s largest pharmaceutical manufacturers, including Johnson &
Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Abbott Laboratories. But through a
gradual course of tragic events, Gwen’s eyes were eventually opened to
the unethical and tyrannical truth about pharmaceutical drugs.
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“It was an awakening process, a
spiritual and consciousness process where I started observing what was
happening, what some of the drugs were doing, the misinformation, the
disinformation. I was being encouraged to minimize side effects when I
talked to doctors. I started to realize that these patients were
literally being tortured by the drugs.”
In her tell all book, Gwen writes about
her years as a pharmaceutical sales rep, exposing the dirty secrets of
the industry that often go untalked about.
As she explains, by the time a drug is
approved and hits the general population, we don’t know even 50% of side
effects that are involved with that drug, “We were being trained to
misinform people,” she said.
But in 2oo4, a family tragedy that tied into the corruption of the pharma industry would change everything for Gwen.
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“My niece was 20 years old, she was
attending Indiana university and she was a pre-med student, an extremely
intelligent, beautiful woman, and just a beautiful spirit inside and
out. She was in a car accident, and was prescribed vicodin hydrocodone
for the pain, and became addicted.”
Gwen says that the drug’s sedative
properties were affecting her niece’s concentration, so she ended up
taking the stimulant drug, ephedrine, to help her with studying.
“She had a drug interaction and ended up
in the hospital, and they tagged her with a bipolar disorder, not a
drug toxicity or a reaction to the drugs she was on. They started giving
her more antipsychotics and mood stabilizers, and that set her on the
road to becoming a mental patient.”
Sadly, Gwen’s niece eventually dropped
out of school, after which she tried to wean herself off of the
medications she was taking. Inevitably, a severe depression followed.
“Her mom was on her way home to take her
back to the psychiatrist and get her back on drugs. [That is when] my
niece walked into her younger sister’s room and took an angel lamp that
was filled with oil, and poured it over herself and ignited it, burning
herself alive.”
Gwen says that her niece’s suicide was
the spark for her passion to spread the truth about what is happening to
so many others out there suffering from side effects associated with
pharmaceutical drugs.
“It was a promise made to her that I
would not let her memory be sullied, and tell people what had happened
to her. She would not be remembered as a mentally or genetically
defective person, I would not allow that to happen. And I realize that
there are thousands and thousands of people out there that need a voice,
and I’m serving as that voice.”
Today, one of Gwen’s biggest concerns is for the millions of children
taking antipsychotics, which has grown exponentially in the past 10
years. These drugs are especially being given to kids in foster care,
putting them in a virtual chemical straight jacket.
“A large number of psychiatrists are
dishonest, because I see them giving people drugs that they know are
brain damaging therapeutics, that they know do not have positive,
long-term outcomes, that they know will not cure anything. They just
take a list of symptoms and call it a mental illness or disorder.”
The subjectivity of psychiatric
diagnoses has created a lucrative alliance between psychiatrists, pharma
reps and the pharma industry. There is no scientific data that is
required to diagnose a mental illness. There are no blood tests, there
are no urine tests, no PET scan, there is no medical evidence required,
and so therefore, that broadens the potential patient population
considerably.
“I was so disillusioned, as well as
angry, when I found out how much deception, how much misinformation was
taking place and how I’d been used in that game. I literally was the one
on the frontlines, I was harming people unintentionally, but I was
responsible. I carry a burden for that now.”
Be sure to check out Gwen’s book, Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher, for more of her story.
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