The Truth About Drug Companies--R&D, Marketing

[SuperUdo9990]

1. Drug companies have used fraudulent misinformation to harm people for profit.

2. They have labeled numerous aspects of human behavior as "mental diseases" to sell more drugs.

3. Psychaitric drugs over the long term create more problems than the patient started with.

4. They have targeted children.

5. They have insinuated themselves in the educational system.

6. They have duped Doctors and Teachers into forwarding their destructive misson.

It's a brilliant business strategy!

[dannyboidj1]

@SuperUdo9990 how do they harm people for profit? can you please explain that.

[prokopton]

@dannyboidj1 For profit. Money. Corporations have a fiduciary to maximize profit for their shareholders.

[bdesousa]

also - she is dead wrong about the data she reports for R&D and marketing. For example - a very large portion of marketing budgets are used to conduct clinical trials where, for example, one compares their medication to gold standard... This is done this way because the sample size required to compare against gold standard is much larger than against placebo - it would be unethical to do such large studies with medications that have not yet been approved by the FDA. Kind of a catch-22...

[bdesousa]

I'm certainly no apologist for the drug industry, but this woman is a hack who clearly does not understand the clinical development process... jeez, where to start with her: she is dead wrong about "me too" drugs as well as placebo controlled studies vs active control studies compaing to a "gold standard". Can elaborate for anyone interested...

[Laceed2010]

@bdesousa elaborate please. i seem to have a little bit of confusion to your statement " as well as placebo controlled studies........."

as far as im concerned this is the truth. most drug testing is done compared to a placebo drug not existing drugs. the drug market is not out there to improve there already existing drugs, but to make new ones

they do not care about our health only the money in there pocket

[Sundrumify]

Thanks for sharing and the intro. Most informative.

Best from Munich,

Lisa

[camelsonhorizon]

i totally agree with you, Dr. agnell, can i help change this?

[camelsonhorizon]

don't ever get a prescription. eat organic and exercise no matter what, thats what i do. not to tell people best way to live, this is my example. anyone agree?