I have long believed that pharmaceutical drugs can, and do cause serious illness and disease.
Now I discover that AI programmes agree with me. So are drugs the real cause of the dementia epidemic?
I began writing my ebook, “Iatrogenic Disease. The Disease Inducing Effects (DIEs) of Pharmaceutical Drugs and Vaccines” in 2007. If I had waited 18 years I need not have bothered! Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmes have achieved the task for me.
Recently the search engine I use, DuckDuckGo, added a ‘Search Assist’ feature. I typed the question above into this and received the following response.
“Several pharmaceutical drugs are known to cause confusion as a side effect, including benzodiazepines (like diazepam and lorazepam), tricyclic antidepressants, anticholinergic medications, and certain antihistamines. These medications can interfere with cognitive functions and may lead to increased confusion, especially in older adults”.
Given my research into my ebook I already knew this, but I had suspected that the Pharmaceutical Medical Establishment may have heavily invested in AI, and their money might have ‘skewed’ its response. I was pleased so I asked for more information. It provided useful information on the following classes of drug.
Anticholinergic Drugs
Incontinence Drugs
Tricyclic Antidepressants
Benzodiazepines
Opioids
Corticosteroids
Antiseizure Drugs
Useful, yes, honest, yes, but not comprehensive. My webpage suggests that it could have told me about the following classes of drug.
Antihistamine Drugs
Proton Pump Inhibitors
Hormone Replacement (HRT)
Flu Vaccines
and several others, including polypharmacy
Confusion is just one symptom of dementia. So I tried Memory Loss. If pharmaceutical drugs are known to cause this too, haven’t we arrived at a significant cause of the dementia epidemic?
“Common pharmaceutical drugs known to cause memory loss include benzodiazepines (like Xanax and Valium), tricyclic antidepressants (such as amitriptyline), anticholinergic medications, and certain anti-seizure drugs. These medications can impair memory function, particularly with long-term use or at high doses”.
My WhatsApp programme also gives me access to an AI programme, so I tried this with the same questions. Again, useful, honest if perhaps not comprehensive information was shared. I will not provide further quotations and examples though as I would like all my readers to find out important information about themselves - simply by asking this question within an AI platform.
“What Pharmaceutical drugs are known to cause ??(disease)?? as a ‘side effect’?”
The ??(disease)?? can be filled in by yourself - input the most serious illness you are suffering from, or have suffered; then have a look at the drugs known to cause your illness; then determine whether you have you taken them during your life; and then whether they could be a cause of your illness.
We should all be doing this! Patient harm caused by pharmaceutical drugs don’t affect “them”, they affect “us”. All of us. And as I have pointed out so many times before we are not told by our doctors about the harm they know they can cause. As I said in a recent article,
“The full extent of the harm caused by pharmaceutical drugs to human ill-health is almost completely unknown. Patients know, and we are told, about only a tiny proportion of what doctors know. And doctors know only a minute proportion of the total picture of the harm their drugs cause”.
