Marketing Illness

[CanSocDem]

Supply-driven marketing not only turns the nation into pill-popping hypochondriacs, it distracts from Pharma's drought of real drugs for real medical problems.

http://www.alternet.org/story/153332/seven_diseases_big_pharma_hopes_you_get_in_2012?akid=7957.15894.-TMnNP&rd=1&t=2

Everyday problems labeled as "depression" sailed Pharma through the last two decades. You weren't sad, mad, scared, confused, remorseful, grieving, or even exploited. You were depressed, and there was a pill for that. But depression peaked just like the Atkins Diet and the Macarena. Luckily, there is adult ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), which has doubled in women 45 to 65 and tripled in men and women 20 to 44, according to the Wall Street Journal.

[CanSocDem]

2. Wouldn't you know it....

I finally get a reply to this insightful essay and it is DELETED. One can only guess why...???

Who could possibly be upset to read that pharmacuetical companies utilize proven marketing techniques to sell their wares...???? I ask you...

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[trotsky]

3. Someone who was spamming the forum with a commercial advertisement.

I alerted on it, hopefully others did too.

Perhaps you can shelve your paranoia?

[CanSocDem]

4. WHAT...!!!????

Since when did 'commerce' become unacceptable on this forum?

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[trotsky]

5. I'm glad you put the word commerce in quotes.

Read the rules.