Hello all. Here is an interesting article... well, at least to me; which is why I am putting it on here... =) Even though I don't think that all drugs are evil, nor do I believe that all drug companies are evil, but I think that there is something seriously wrong with the fact that drugs are marketed directly to consumers here in the USA. I think that by marketing directly to consumers, that shows that many drug companies are more concerned about making money than trying to help people. This is my opinion, what is yours???
Here's the first part of the article:
Drugs, Dollars & Diagnosis
Does diagnosing controversial conditions help patients—or are drug companies the only beneficiaries?
By Maia Szalavitz for MSN Health & Fitness
Every few years, it seems, there’s a new diagnosis for a controversial disease or condition.
Are ADHD, restless leg syndrome (RLS) and fibromyalgia, to name a few disorders du jour, imaginary, or do these labels identify conditions that are all too real for people suffering from them, with symptoms ranging from irritating to debilitating?
The controversy is fueled by the observation that there seems to be a money trail attached to some of the attention for the most fashionable disorders. As pharmaceutical company critic, psychiatrist and author David Healy notes, “when antidepressants were on-patent and making money, we heard a lot about depression; now that mood stabilizers are making money, we hear a lot about [bipolar].”
You can go to this link for the whole article: http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100198253>1=31036
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I agree with you on that babe!
I absolutely agree with you. I was talking about a similar thing on my blog, where every symptom has a "disorder" assigned to it these days, but I didn't even touch on the fact that the pharmaceutical companies were making a lot of money off of it. The problem is that people create problems, do some research to prove that its a disorder, then the drug companies make money because the person is now classified as someone who has "restless legs".
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