Happiness Comes In A Pill

[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.

Read more at:

http://obtuseword.blogspot.com/2008/...o-america.html

[davedes]

Remember all the news a while back warning how antidepressants could increase suicide risk? Doctors became reluctant to prescribe antidepressants to those who truly needed them, some no longer prescribing them at all.

The ironic thing is that a later study found that the decline in antidepressant use had actually increased suicide rates. I'll dig up the study...

Completely random, I know...


On-topic: Where are the sources? That's a lot of bold claims with no list of references. I don't truly doubt the article, but I would like to see some supporting evidence.

[another day]

a gramme is better then a damn...
a gramme is better then a damn..

soma anyone?

[Obtuse Word]

References are included in the text of the article.

[thx1138]

If you haven't watch the film THX 1138 you'll see where the happiness in a pill could lead.

[SoylentGreen]

I would rather a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

[Milton Bradley]

Quote by: anther day soma anyone?

Sure, hook me up buddy.

Quote by: SoylentGreen I would rather a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha, that's a funny song.


I too, would rather have the bottle, than the frontal.

[triad]

Drugs, drugs, drugs... some are good some are bad. Drugs, drugs, drugs, ask your mom or ask your dad!


Yeah right... marijuana has less side-effects than anti-depressants and its way more fun(and it makes you pretty damn happy). Besides the point...

It is just too bad these enormous profit reaping companies are able to program us right from the time we're kids into thinking anything the doctor can give us must mean it's good.


We're all doomed.

[Maryjane]

I guess it depends on your physician? When I went "outta my mind" there for a while, she didn't prescribe anything for my anxeity. She said it was better to deal with it than to cover it up. I doubt I would have taken it anyway. I'd rather smoke a doobie than pop a pill any day.

[JaneDoe321]

Well.... for another angle, too often we have general practitioners or family doctors prescribing psychiatric drugs. Not psychiatrists/psychologists, who are actually trained specifically in diagnosing, etc. That makes me a little twitchy

[Anmon]

Quote by: 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. Read more at: ObtuseWord: Politics, Religion, Social Commentary: Big Pharma Sells Happiness to America

this has been going on for ages mate, its called the misery industry.
Pharmetcutial companys and new age no nothging mental health specialists working hand in hand, to not help people get better, but to keep them depressed, and to have more people reliant on their pills and 'care' there would be no profit or jobs if most of them got better would there?
People who are slightly depressed are unnecessarily medicated in the hope this will make them worse and dependant on more drugs to get better.
Its a disgusting shameless self centred industry, its only interest being in profits and in jobs.
Helping people actually get better, doesnt even register on their radar.

[Anmon]

dp.

[SoylentGreen]

Quote by: Anmon this has been going on for ages mate, its called the misery industry. Pharmetcutial companys and new age no nothging mental health specialists working hand in hand, to not help people get better, but to keep them depressed, and to have more people reliant on their pills and 'care' there would be no profit or jobs if most of them got better would there? People who are slightly depressed are unnecessarily medicated in the hope this will make them worse and dependant on more drugs to get better. Its a disgusting shameless self centred industry, its only interest being in profits and in jobs. Helping people actually get better, doesnt even register on their radar.

Wow! that sounds just like religion only without the drugs

[JaneDoe321]

Quote by: SoylentGreen Wow! that sounds just like religion only without the drugs

Depends on the religion.

[Anmon]

Quote by: JaneDoe321 Depends on the religion.

oh should I bite?
grow up.

[Anmon]

Quote by: SoylentGreen Wow! that sounds just like religion only without the drugs

religon can offer hope, and guidance at least.

[SoylentGreen]

Quote by: Anmon religon can offer hope, and guidance at least.

So can medication when used correctly.
Gee look, another similarity, must be something to the old saying "religion is the opiate of the masses."

[Domino]

Yeah, that was before the masses could afford opiates

[triad]

Quote by: Anmon religon can offer hope, and guidance at least.

The thing with pills is at least people will admit they're addictive and that they change their personality for the worse... in the long run...


... whereas religion, in general; need I say it?

If you dissent my stance, sorry to hear that.

[Oxymoronic]

Off Topic:Let me get this straight. We just went from talking about pharmaceutical companies trying to get anti-depressant pills into our systems to how a pill and religion are the same thing. I hope that tells you something about humanity. Leave religion on the door step when arguing about more science orientated debates. Not everything revolves around religion you guys.

On Topic: Pharmaceutical companies are always pushing new drugs on us put never new cures because that would take money away from them. It's not exactly a big shock or anything. Though really doctors suscribe depressants much less now a days since the huge upsurge about depressants increasing suicide risk(which may or may not be true). A better debate would probablly be about whether anti-depressants help you or not