Critique of Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices

When I worked for the drug industry, science was completely

abandoned. These drug companies I was, that I was interviewing with had no

problem

telling me, "Look, we design drugs based on treating

symptoms. We don't cure." That's a business model,

okay, that allows you to give a drug to a person

for

life. The next level of drug advertising

is inventing disease. When you run out of symptoms,

you don't have any

more clientele. With psychiatric medications, you can

invent diseases all day

long. There's two words that a psychiatrist fears: prove it.

And if the doctor can't do it, nine times out of 10 they can't,

then don't take the drug. I wondered, as a chemist, I'm making these

drugs, they're proving deadly in our labs, and they're proving deadly in other

labs, dangerous, ineffective. How are they selling them?

Big Pharma has the best marketing department in the world.

Geniuses, who simply pay to report

that the studies show positive results.

You're paying them, you're buying science.

At least 125,000 people dying every year

from prescription drugs, you would think that you'd spend more

in research to try to offset the death toll.

No, keep going with marketing. Market, market, market.

Hypnotize them and drug them, and get them into their psychiatrist so

they can

swallow the next Cymbalta or the next Prozac

or whatever they're gonna

package it as and name it as.