Quotes About Pharmaceuticals

Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.

America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

Giselle Chapman was hired by Bristol-Myers Squibb, one of the leading pharmaceutical companies at that time. She became their number one sales representative, and went on to form her own consulting company.

Ponder this: From 1983 to 2008, the number of people in the world with diabetes increased sevenfold, from 35 to 240 million. In just three years, from 2008 to 2011, we added another 110 million diabetics to our global population. Shouldn't the main question we ask be why is this happening? instead of what new drug can we find to treat it?

Cortisone is good shit.

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night

Miltown, Librium, Valium,

Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that the birds might eat them.

Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.

A recent study by two York University researchers found that Big Pharma spends nearly twice as much on promotion and advertising as it does on research and development.

Americans are the most overmedicated people on earth, with overall domestic sales of prescription drugs totaling $ 235.4 billion. 33

Food animals also get antibiotics for "growth promotion," a metabolically mysterious process that has made possible the entire high-volume, low-margin business of industrial-scale farming. Since the 1950s, when two pharma company scientists discovered that feeding chicks the waste products from drug manufacturing made them put on weight much faster, many U.S. farmers have been giving tiny doses of antibiotics to cattle, swine, and poultry.34

Only the sertraline stopped her crying.

Imagine if there were a pill that could reduce your chance of dying by 10 percent over the next decade and only had good side effects. How much do you think the drug company would charge? Probably more than fifty cents.

Global spending for prescription drugs is surpassing $ 1 trillion annually, with the United States accounting for about one-third of this market.

The Mayo Clinic estimates that nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug.

Depender de las grandes farmacéuticas significa pagar más por fármacos que salvan vidas.

The most undesirable side effects most frequently observed in the use of Captorix were nausea, loss of libido and impotence. I have never suffered from nausea.

First of all, if prescription drugs actually healed, the whole system would collapse. Really, any large-scale man-made system is going to have corruption.

Some 80 percent of Americans addicted to opioids began with prescription painkillers, not with illegal street drugs. Essentially, pharmaceutical executives acted like Colombian drug lords, with legal approval. Many cities and states, including Baltimore, are now suing Purdue and other pharmaceutical companies to recover some of the costs of treating the opioid epidemic, but no one can ever give Daniel back what he lost.

These days when he thinks about happiness and contentment, he thinks in terms of milligrams.

Did I need medication? Or did I need someone to talk to? Someone, that is, who would do more than charge the going rate for nodding and whip out a prescription pad before the first fifty minutes were up. Was I physiologically depressed? At an innate biochemical disadvantage? Or was reaching for the pad just the way things were done because the doc had been well patronized by the drug reps and had plenty of samples in her file cabinet?

You can sell more pills if you can convince people that being sad is a disease.

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!