Quotes About Pharmaceuticals

Krissa had since learned a great deal about the drug Lithium and was now aware of how controversial it was.

This is not something you or I do. This is something the poor do so that the rich get better drugs.

What makes our contemporary neurobiological concepts different is the extent to which they have been promoted by pharmaceutical marketers. You are not shy; you have social anxiety disorder. You are not absentminded, dreamy, or fidgety; you have ADHD. You are not moody; you are bipolar. Each diagnosis comes with a prescription. Your need for medication becomes part of your identity.

The suicide risk for mental health patients goes up during changes in medication.

It is incomprehensible that drug companies still get away with charging Americans twice as much, or more, than citizens of Canada or Europe for the exact same drugs manufactured by the exact same companies.

while the lives saved by the drug might not be accounted for anywhere.

it looks like this is because of overmedication and excessive medical care.

Somewhere in the secret recesses of Pfizer, or GlaxoSmithKline, or one of the big pharmaceutical companies, I imagine there's a high security dungeon where three hunchbacked witches stir a massive industrial cauldron of crap I don't want to know about, but I must ingest on a daily basis. And the generic versions aren't even brewed by real witches.

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Beth popped a Tums in her mouth and crunched it into a powder that filled the creases in her molars.

It's crucial to keep in mind that the hundreds of millions of dollars now spent on prescription drug advertisements are ultimately paid for by consumers in the form a higher drug prices.

When Americans fill a prescription, the price is routinely twice as much—sometimes ten times as much—as a Briton or a German would pay for precisely the same pills made in the same factory.

For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals, and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis's drugs.

The pharmaceutical corporations are engaged in the systematic corruption of the medical profession, country by country

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

The reason why [the medical community] is reluctant to talk about it is because there's such a huge business in pharmaceuticals.

If placebo effects were this good, they should just make placebos the way to treat depression—maybe that's what they did; maybe Zoloft was cornstarch.

Why is it now a hundred times more expensive to bring a new medicine to market than it was sixty years ago Ã¢â'¬â€œ a phenomenon Juan Enriquez has called 'Moore's Law* in reverse'? Why would the Food and Drug Administration probably prohibit the sale of table salt if it were put forward as a new pharmacological product (it is after all toxic in large doses)?11

Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They

In Western countries, for instance, it is legal for physicians to receive "bribes" in the form of cash by pharmaceutical companies for every new patient they put on their drugs.

the majority of all tranquilizer prescriptions are written for women.

Take a job working for the rich shareholders of massive corporations so you can get paid less while increasing supply for the few who can have access to expensive cancer drugs, driverless cars, robots, etc. B)

For the diagnostic categories for which drugs are far and away the first-line form of treatment, such as the 'mood disorders', 'eating disorders', 'psychotic disorders' and 'anxiety disorders', an average of 88% of all DSM-IV panel members had drug company financial ties.