Creating Diseases For Profit
From: Red Flags Weekly
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/editor/2003_jan04.html
*THE MAKING OF A DISEASE: FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION
A cohort of researchers with close ties to drug companies are working with colleagues in the pharmaceutical
industry to develop and define a new category of human illness at meetings heavily sponsored by companies racing
to develop new drugs....
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/special_edition.html
*FIRST, YOU MARKET THE DISEASE...THEN YOU PUSH THE PILLS TO TREAT IT
The ugly truth about doctors, PR firms, and drug companies: Prominent doctors are enlisted to publicly affirm the malady's ubiquity, then public-relations firms launch campaigns to promote the new disease, using dramatic statistics from corporate-sponsored studies....
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*THE LATEST DRUG COMPANY TACTIC: DISEASE AWARENESS
Are you noticing more stories in the media trying to get you to see your doctor about a treatment for "social
anxiety disorder?" The symptoms seem pretty familiar - sweaty palms, nervousness in a crowd....
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/special_edition.html
*THE RISE AND FALL OF ADD/ADHD
In 1980, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) was invented in committee, for DSM-III. In 1987, ADD was revised,
becoming ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder....
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*FLASHBACK: PRESCRIPTION DRUG BS AWARD FOR 2001
Eli Lilly's aggressive come-on for "Sarafem" is shameless? Even psychiatrists, who are quick to call any part of the body that moves a disease are being cautious about this outrageous marketing ploy....
http://www.redflagsweekly.com/regushsarafem.html
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