The United States is one of just two countries that still allow pharmaceutical companies to engage in direct-to-consumer advertising of new drugs.
With direct-to-consumer advertising, consumers are encouraged to mask one issue and take on a bunch of new health issues, while being told to "Ask their doctor if this drug is right for them." Big Pharma has also developed an elaborate system of bribery to manipulate medical professionals into prescribing new drugs.
In one chapter, he discusses pharmaceutical research and the drug industry's inability to develop meaningful advancements for medicine over a twenty-year period.
Drugs like steroids, insulin and penicillin have helped countless people; however, most drugs created since then have caused more problems than they have solved.
Even with massive investments in drug research and with technological advancements that have enabled mass synthesis of coal-tar chemical compounds, much of the pharmaceutical research has merely focused on masking symptoms, instead of getting to the root cause of disease.
New drugs are oftentimes just new variations of old drugs, leading to endless ways to profit from basic formulas.
Even with record profits, Big Pharma is failing to treat chronic disease Basically, over the last sixty years, drug companies have manipulated the scientific process, prioritizing profit over people.
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