Subscribe at www.veritasshow.com to listen to the full interview, Gwen Olsen never intended to become a whistleblower. For 15 years she peddled drugs door-to-door and made plenty of money doing it. Her role as a sales rep for "big pharma" meant she was highly-trained. No, not medically—she had the scripts down cold. Scripts -- as in acting. She could counter physician concerns, misinform and persuade with the best of them. So deep was her spending account, she never met its limit. But then things began to change. She was now taking an anti-depressant and contending with one of the serious side effects she'd down-played for so long -- manic psychosis. It nearly cost her her life. Then, as if her Faustian bargain hadn't been harrowing enough, Olsen watched a protracted prescription drug-related scenario lead to the death of her medical student niece. "I'm not anti-drugs, I'm anti-misinformation," Olsen says in this interview. "People have the right to know what they are putting into their bodies and what these prescriptions are doing to our children." The prescription drug industry in this country is about nothing but profit, Olsen proclaims, bringing an insider's perspective to a growing whiff of rot in the land of "first do no harm." "We have to rein in these pharmaceutical companies. Profiteers are pushing anti-psychotics on our children." She illuminates big pharma's agenda; and they don't want us well. Olsen is now a writer and lecturer. "Confessions of an Rx Drug ...
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