Ex-Pharmaceutical Rep:Billions Spent on Drug Ads

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau is a former 10-year Pharma Sales Rep and Writer/Director of the feature film Side Effects starring Katherine Heigl (Grey's Anatomy). In this video she discusses the billion dollar psycho/pharmaceutical marketing campaign designed to get millions of people on psychotropic drugs through slick drug ads and marketing campaigns that include ghost writing pro drug articles for medical journals

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Pharmaceutical
• Pharma Rep
• Drugs
• TV ads
• Consumers
• Drug Commercials
• Psychiatry
• Psychiatric Drugs
• Marketing
• Profit
• billions
• dollars
• funding
• Wall Street
• internet
• Side Effects

[Dan0943a]

Star - She's an EX, as in former, pharma rep. Now a movie director.

This is great, concise info. The grassroots ex-patients and moral medical professionals will always be going against big money Pharma and their gross distortions of science. Psychiatry has been a crock from the get go when Freud was prescribing cocaine to his patients.

[DianeDi]

Thank you for this fabulous video. I would love to see this cut down to 30 seconds and put on T.V. People have to stop looking up to the "white coats" and "advertising" as the last word. The industry is responsible to Wall Street and Wall Street first. Wow, truer words have never been spoken.

[mgeisel1]

It would be nice if they'd spend this money to hire someone for minimum wage to pick up trash on the side of the road in my neighborhood. Wouldn't that be a better use of money?

[chiropractic47]

In my very busy chiropractic office I warn people about the influence of the MD and pharma on them. Making a poor and dangerous choice for your health can maime or even be fatal. A healthful lifestyle that includes chiropractic spinal adjustments and health counseling is your best bet to correct then maintain health.

[Annelies19532]

Michael Jackson was right: they don't care about us. At all !!!

Research the "efforts " of Bill Gates and his billion dollar investments in infertillity-vaccine's, under the name of filantrope.

[Ckordobah]

@Dan0943a Dan, you are so Right on!!!! But I just can't stop laughing at the last sentence in your post !!! If it is true, then people as a whole will believe whatever guess that comes along ! Truly ! Peace to U....

[osearth]

it sickens me how little people know about pharmacokinetics and contraindications. why the heck are there different name for each drug in each country. they are misinforming us and killing people every day. for a specific example and more info look at the documentary called 'Oxy Express'.

[80sRker]

One more person looking to blame someone else. What happened to self accountability. I guess obese people should just blame fast food ads. for them being fat, nevermind that they are the one's who shoveled those hamburgers in. Obviously she was able to ignore all those haircut place ads. unfortunately it looks as if she wasn't able to get away from the show "what not to wear". is that outfit from the Martha Washington collection ?

[imagicman]

It is called "pharmaceutical sales" and is not different from any other marketing/sales organization. I think it is interesting that this former rep never mentioned how much money, in terms of salary/bonus/fleet car/perks, she had received and enjoyed before condemning the industry.

[amuzaurieta]

We should welcome a strong debate about this topic. I feel confident that the results of a non bias study would show that direct to consumer advertising helps move product but it also helps inform patients about both diseases and treatment options.

[CanadianBeaver]

Peace and Love!