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Ferre
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Drugs companies 'inventing diseases to boost their profits'
By Mark Henderson, Science Correspondent
PHARMACEUTICAL companies are systematically creating diseases in order to sell more of their products, turning healthy people into patients and placing many at risk of harm, a special edition of a leading medical journal claims today.
The practice of “diseasemongering” by the drug industry is promoting non-existent illnesses or exaggerating minor ones for the sake of profits, according to a set of essays published by the open-access journal Public Library of Science Medicine.
The special issue, edited by David Henry, of Newcastle University in Australia, and Ray Moynihan, an Australian journalist, reports that conditions such as female sexual dysfunction, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and “restless legs syndrome” have been promoted by companies hoping to sell more of their drugs.
Other minor problems that are a normal part of life, such as symptoms of the menopause, are also becoming increasingly “medicalised”, while risk factors such as high cholesterol levels or osteoporosis are being presented as diseases in their own right, according to the editors.
“Disease-mongering turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources and causes iatrogenic (medically induced) harm,” they say. “Like the marketing strategies that drive it, disease-mongering poses a global challenge to those interested in public health, demanding in turn a global response.”
Doctors, patients and support groups need to be more aware that pharmaceutical companies are taking this approach, and more research is needed into the changing ways in which conditions are presented, according to the writers.
Disease-awareness campaigns are often funded by drug companies, and “more often designed to sell drugs than to illuminate or inform or educate about the prevention of illness or the maintenance of health”, they say.
Particular conditions that are highlighted in the journal include sexual function in both men and women. The prevalence of female sexual dysfunction, one paper claims, has been highly exaggerated to provide a new market for drugs, while the makers of anti-impotence medicines, such as Viagra and Cialis, have been involved with their presentation as lifestyle drugs that can boost the sexual prowess of healthy men.
Ordinary shyness is routinely presented as a social anxiety disorder and treated with antidepressants, while newly identified conditions such as “restless legs syndrome” — a constant urge to move one’s legs — are presented as being much more common than they really are.
Richard Ley, of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, rejected the accusations, pointing out that Britain has firm safeguards against disease-mongering. Many of the authors’ criticisms, he said, were aimed squarely at countries such as the United States, where pharmaceuticals can be openly advertised directly to patients.
“Drug companies are not allowed to communicate directly with patients, and we do not invent diseases,” he said.
“We provide information that there are treatments out there that might help certain conditions, but at the end of the day it is down to health professionals to decide if they are appropriate.
“The best safeguard is that the doctor who knows the product and knows the patient’s history is the one who decides what to prescribe.”
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DannyHaszard
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Appreciate your blog,mental health consumers are the least capable of self advocacy,my doctors made me take zyprexa for 4 years which was ineffective for my symptoms.I now have a victims support page against Eli Lilly for it's Zyprexa product causing my diabetes.--Daniel Haszard www.zyprexa-victims.com
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Torkel
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| ...my doctors made me take zyprexa for 4 years which was ineffective for my symptoms.I now have a victims support page against Eli Lilly for it's Zyprexa product causing my diabetes.--Daniel Haszard www.zyprexa-victims.com |
Wow, I know that zyprexa is some serious heavy duty poison.
After having zyprexa in your system for four years, how did you go about getting it safely out of your system?
The reason I ask is I was on it for only ~5-6 months (1999) and after learning about its risks I went cold-turkey and quit on my own.
Man, that was about the scariest experience I've went thru in my entire life - no shit.
All kinds of emotional, roller coaster, nightmarish madness, disorientation whatever you call it hell.
Pardon my language, but I gotta say fuck the pharmaceutical companies and the government of the ussa while I'm at it. Doctors too.
I hope your life works out for you & family after your bad experiences with big-pharma and the jehova's witnesses.
Peace,
Torkel
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What's that? Your leg moving up and down? Why, you've got a SYNDROME! Here, take a pill!*
Stinky fartz? Why...that's a SYNDROME! Here, take a pill!*
"Ask your doctor..." has become "Tell your doctor..."
I'm at the doctors office a lot. I've noticed that the main qualification for being a pharmaceutical rep is to be blond, female, 30-ish with really nice breasts.
*WARNING: Side effects may include stomach cramps, diabetes, erectile dysfunction, bloody stool, blinding headaches, nausea, dizzyness, excessive stool, the inability to tell one's ass from one's elbow, dry mouth, painful urination, demonic delusions, speaking-in-tongues, loss of vision, memory loss, liver dysfunction, rapid heart rate, vomiting, kidney failure, diarrhea, prolonged and painful erection, high blood pressure, blue-balls, forgetting your wife's birthday, color-blindness, constipation, deep dark depression excessive misery and suicidal thoughts, excessive flatulence, schizophrenia, low blood pressure, eratic heart beat, diarrhea, excessive babbling, lower back pain, drooling, crossing-of-eyes-and-your-face-may-freeze-that-way, bleeding gums, Sudoku addiction, swollen genitalia, belief in Jackalopes, Bi-Polar disorder, a fondness for the New York Mets, Munchhausen-by-proxy, fear of the dark, irritable bowel, sensitivity to light, excessive bumper-sticker syndrome, insomnia, vaginal dryness, weight gain, belief in Jeebus, painful memories, arthritis, sinus inflamation, reality-tv addiction, hemorrhoids, night blindess, skin discoloration, loose teeth, British Footbal Fan Syndrome, hair loss, agoraphobia, a teenie-weenie-peenie, over-due library books, gout, excessive Publisher's Clearing House entries, bleeding ulcers, Typhoid Fever, Disco-dancing, distended belly, painful numbness in feet and extremities, pedophilia, Three Stooges Fandom NYUK-NYUK-NYUK, excessive hair growth, your child may fall down a well, loss of fingernails, gangrene, lethal boredom, ER flatline, weight loss and, in rare cases, leprosy. Consult your doctor.
Consult your doctor,
Ben
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Officer
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The best medical decision I ever made was to walk out of my Neurologist's office and never go back.
The blessing in this is that due to a chronic medical condition, I educated myself about exactly why you should avoid pharmakillicals. I find that the average person has no desire to learn the health hazards they blindly subject themselves to.
Another positive offshoot is that because I rely on Cannabis to be healthy and functional, I'm forever linked to the plant in a symbiotic relationship (now, if I only had a few seeds). There's a certain magic in raising a seedling or a clone into a fully matured plant, happily offering the flowers to you. A kind of magic you just don't get by popping a pill.
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IntrepidEZJ
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Hmmm, do I take something that occurs naturally in Nature (Herbs)
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do I take something that must be altered chemically by humans (drugs)
hmmmm. |
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revjohn
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| My honest opinion? Fuck the rich pharmaceuticals and fuck the doctors, I'd rather see a witch doctor then some pusher for a drug company. they want us to stay sick... if we are cured they are out of business. that's why they are always talking about ways to manage a condition not cure it. they feed off the misery of others and will be punished by God in the end. |
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