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Don't believe the latest hype when a drug ad says you won't feel depressed by ingesting their high-profit synthetic chemicals." This is very similar to the obligatory "side effects" voiceover recited at the end of a pharmaceutical television commercial; neither consumers nor doctors pay much notice to the "final voiceover" or "fine print. Over the next 11 years, this increased more than 50-fold to over $3 billion in 2003. And in 2000, in a somewhat less successful ad campaign that cost perhaps $60 million, the American pharmaceutical industry tried to discredit the Canadian system.
Marketing is the economic equivalent to waging war—sizing up your own forces, your enemy's (the competition), and emphasizing your own strengths and your enemy's weaknesses. Glossy ads promote the efficacy or ease of usage of drugs.
What may be even more important to note in all of this is the Vioxx cover-up further confirms the character of the drug companies in our modern day environment of drug promotion and suppression of negative side effects. Let me offer a loose prediction: In the future of medicine, we won't be using these pharmaceuticals. It has overplayed its greed to such an extent that the industry is now in a mode of self-destruction.
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Encyclopedia Nutritional Supplements by Michael T Murray ND, page 90
In addition, since niacin is a widely available "generic" agent, no pharmaceutical company stands to generate the huge profits that the other cholesterol-lowering drugs have enjoyed. These publications masquerade as educational materials, but many are largely marketing efforts that deserve as much scrutiny as drug advertisements.
You can be outraged once, twice, even three times, but being able to summon up that level of outrage in the face of new evidence seems to be rather redundant.
Prozac Backlash by Joseph Glenmullen MD, page 89
Yet the healthcare industry — as with most other industries — is slow to recognize the Internet's potential business opportunities and threats. But when I'm here today I'm speaking in my private capacity on my own time, and I do not represent the FDA.
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Death By prescription by Ray D Strand, page 169
Surveys reported in our medical literature reveal that when a patient comes into a doctor's office and requests a specific drug that he has seen advertised in the media, the doctor writes the exact prescription the patient requested more than 70 percent of the time. Also, TV ads do not list all of the potential side effects, but rather, just the most common side effects. For example, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer purchased all of the advertising space in an entire issue of Time magazine on the "Future of Medicine. When the (then) editors, Drs.
Thus, they continue to run those ads and they continue to focus on the promotion of pharmaceuticals for profit rather than education about chemical agents that should be used with caution, and only in specific circumstances.
So when you hear people talk about so-called 'evidence-based medicine,' remember that most of the people whose mouths those words emerge from actually live in a world of outrageous scientific distortion. The American Psychiatric Association is literally built on a foundation of drug money: millions of dollars of pharmaceutical advertising money are poured into the APA's publications, conferences, continuing education programs, and seminars. Parts of this interview also appear in Dr.
Yes, I am outraged at Merck's apparent behavior, and yes, I think this company should be investigated and the top decision-makers of the company who engaged in this apparent scientific cover-up should be held not just financially responsible for the suffering and death these drugs have apparently caused, but even criminally liable for engaging in these actions. So much for hard science. What we see today is really just a drug racket disguised as evidence-based medicine.
Future Consumer com by Frank Feather, page 190
The pharmaceutical companies have been quick to realize the potential of this expanding market and are beginning to target advertising for prescription medicines directly to consumers, on television and in print." Similarly, Johnson and Johnson purchased the advertising space of an entire issue of Newsweek. The number of television ads increased 40-fold between 1994 and 2000."
Herbs Against Cancer by Ralph W Moss PhD, page 75
FDA control (or lack or control) of pharmaceutical advertising
Another connection between the FDA and the pharmaceutical industry is through the pharmaceutical Advertising Council (PAC).
Future Consumer com by Frank Feather, page 190
The pharmaceutical companies have been quick to realize the potential of this expanding market and are beginning to target advertising for prescription medicines directly to consumers, on television and in print.