For DECADES American pharmaceutical companies have produced far in excess of legally prescribed medications, which have entered the “black market”. Prescribed medications are more a response to TV and other advertising, than any diseases, even those “Invented” in the same labs that produce a “medicine” to “cure” them. Add in that depression IS a serious problem, stimulated in NO small part by pharmaceutical company ads that make us believe EVERY person must see the world through rose-tinted glasses, and well.
Even drugs that DO work effectively, are falsely blown out of proportion inTV ads to, for example, make you think getting a good night’s sleep with their product will move you from the mail room to CEO, overnight! BTW, profits for that “new” drug went to multi-billions in the first year of advertising, absolutely burying the “cost of development”.
Drug “Abuse” is the MOST MARKETED INDUSTRY IN AMERICA! And as long as profits are up, will continue. BAN all prescription medication ads on TV as a start, just like cigarettes. It’s amazing how many doctors get patients asking what “disease” they have to have to get a prescription medication, which is deadly. Hmmm, and righties complain about legalizing medical marijuana, which has absolutely NO potential for lethal side effects, other than bullet wounds because the product remains “illegal” and profitable for crime lords, simply because it is!
For DECADES American pharmaceutical companies have produced far in excess of legally prescribed medications, which have entered the “black market”. Prescribed medications are more a response to TV and other advertising, than any diseases, even those “Invented” in the same labs that produce a “medicine” to “cure” them. Add in that depression IS a serious problem, stimulated in NO small part by pharmaceutical company ads that make us believe EVERY person must see the world through rose-tinted glasses, and well.
Even drugs that DO work effectively, are falsely blown out of proportion inTV ads to, for example, make you think getting a good night’s sleep with their product will move you from the mail room to CEO, overnight! BTW, profits for that “new” drug went to multi-billions in the first year of advertising, absolutely burying the “cost of development”.
Drug “Abuse” is the MOST MARKETED INDUSTRY IN AMERICA! And as long as profits are up, will continue. BAN all prescription medication ads on TV as a start, just like cigarettes. It’s amazing how many doctors get patients asking what “disease” they have to have to get a prescription medication, which is deadly. Hmmm, and righties complain about legalizing medical marijuana, which has absolutely NO potential for lethal side effects, other than bullet wounds because the product remains “illegal” and profitable for crime lords, simply because it is!