Obtuse Word

Big Pharma Sells Happiness to America

Americans are now buying their happiness in pill form. Big Pharma is recklessly pushing anti-depression drugs onto the American public. The pharmaceutical industry has been financially influencing members of the government and using misleading advertising campaigns in order to get their psychiatric drugs approved for public consumption without proper clinical trials.

Big Pharma has infiltrated the FDA and the NIMH, two government entities, in order to get their psychiatric drugs approved for public consumption quickly with minimal barriers. In 55 percent of the FDA advisory meetings on drug approvals, half or more of the FDA advisers had financial connections to the interested drug company, while in 92 percent of these advisory meetings, at least one FDA adviser had a financial conflict of interest according to USA Today in 2000. Almost every FDA meeting on drug approvals have been tainted by Big Pharma’s money.

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DarkWizard12

What a laugh. Happiness comes form the inside, not a pill.

RightOfCenter

Vicadin

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WI Crippler

I don't know about the OPs intent here, but I am not a big fan of pharmacuetical companies myself(where are the cures?). I'm not saying that there aren't good reasons and cases that some people may need drugs for issues, but I think there are alot of people that either A) Think they have a problem, but really don't and are just being pansies B) Have atrocious lifestyle choices such as diet and drug use problems that decrease both their mental and physical health.

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donc

He’s right on this part (Big Pharma has infiltrated the FDA and the NIMH, two government entities,)

rivrrat

I dunno... my pills that got rid of my migraines made me pretty god damn happy.

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tryreading

This is true for me too. I've had chronic migraines since the mid 1980's, and finally found a doctor about 2 years ago who prescribed the right combination of pills to cut down the frequency of the headaches. If you have a chronic problem and there is a pill that will improve your life, not taking the pill is pretty stupid, imo.

To the OP, I agree that the big pharmaceutical companies can be unscrupulous, and need to be separated from our regulatory agencies, but the anti depressants have their place and provide relief to a lot of people with miserable lives.

Gipper

Tom Cruise is a kook, but he's right with one thing - America, as a whole, is ungodly overmedicated.

Feeling bummed? Suck it up, slug. Go exercise.

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Kelzie

I don't believe in ADD or ADHD or whatever they're calling it these days. It's called no discipline.

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