This shit needs to stop and YOU! are the only one that can do it, so get of you ass and to do something about it, think of your children!
Force the US government to make laws agains things like:
- Direct-to-consumer drug ads.
- Me-to drugs.
- Gift-giving from company’s to doctors even for educational purposes.
- Free drug samples to doctors.
First see Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs on google video to get vital information.
Here is what it´s about:
Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry’s marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors. Combined, these industry practices shape how both patients and doctors understand and relate to disease and treatment. Ultimately, Big Bucks, Big Pharma challenges us to ask important questions about the consequences of relying on a for-profit industry for our health and well-being.
Support organisations like:
American Medical Students Organisation´s National Pharm Free Campaign
And if your taking drugs visit to see if you getting what you need:
I couldn’t have said it better! It’s selling sickness, fear and pain. It’s got to stop. The drug companies have become megalomaniacs!
You make some good points, but don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater, as we say in the U.S. Drug samples for doctors aren’t all bad — sometimes, it’s a good way to start a patient who needs to start treatment immediately. Or to test whether a drug is right for the patient. Or for patients who can’t afford to buy the drug at a pharmacy. When I was a starving grad student, I had a kind doctor who gave me samples because I was on such a tight budget. That’s not what the drug companies intended, I’m sure!
Well okay I see your point but something needs to change, so I´ll say that restrictions instead of total abolishment for drug samples to doctors would do the trick I think, because something needs to be done about the big companies in the US right now.