Drug firms 'inventing diseases' to sell more drugs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4898488.stm

Nothing new, but it seems like the mainstream media is finally waking up.

 

Hardly surprising, that's whhy I don't believe in many 'diseases' and rarely take medicine.

 

"Just say No to drugs", indeed! Nice to know there are legal pushers endangering people's health and lives, raking in the dough, getting FDA approval, and recieving government subsidies while innocent people linger away in jail or prison for marijuana possession!

edited to add, clearly we all need some of this:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46032

 

THe ultimate was when I saw a commercial for General Anxiety Disorder...and you betcha, there's a drug for it! The symptoms are what we normal people call 'stress'...and the cure for that is something that grows naturally, but man made it illegal...WTF!?

 

General anxiety disorder is different from everyday stress, although pharamceutical companies are urging everyday stress to be treated like general anxiety disorder. I used to suffer from it. And it's best treated by awareness and behavior changes. Drugging can actually make it worse! You need to be aware of the symptoms, in order to change the behavior and heal, Drugging masks the symptoms, making true recovery near impossible.

Don't even get me started on this one. *seethe seethe seethe*

 

yeah i dont believe in medicines just take u from one problem to another
"a toke a day keeps the doctor away" or few

 

Kind of wierd how there are thousands of diseases with the same symptoms. It is much more profitable to treat a disease than cure it. The pharmaceudical companies are raping the American people and most doctors are unknowingly slaves to their agenda. There has been some great advances in medicine, but I know about 90% of the treatments out there are useless or dangerous to one's health.

 

One more thing I want to add, Viagra is covered by most insurances, while birth control often isn't. Guess what the gender the policy writers are.

 

I've worked for several HMOs, one very excellent one that was physician-run, and another that was an entirely evil entity excreted by a traditional indemnity- and each offered a variety of plans and coverages. All covered contraception unless the "company" that wanted the coverage mandated to us that we not cover those services.

In all cases that I have seen, those companies were owned and operated by the Roman Catholic Church. I'm not sure where you are, but the Catholic Church in Cincinnati Ohio has billions in business assets (mostly by owning hospitals) and they can legally require their employees to live by church doctrine- and can require them to not use contraception.

Unless things have changed radically in recent years (altogether possible!), all blame for non-coverage of contraception should be lain at the feet of the Xians.

This issue makes me kinda angry, because the Catholic church's position on contraception has resulted in an AIDS outbreak in Africa and elsewhere that has probably killed more people than any other belief system since forcible communism.

But re the subject at issue, I also roll my eyes at all these new "diseases." Some are even legit- but have had their name changed for marketing reasons. For instance, ADHD- how many people would accept this diagnosis, and medication to go with it, if it was still called by its original name (Minimal Brain Dysfunction)? Not as many. (I should add that I know that ADHD can be very extremely serious, to the point of being almost life-endangering, and sometimes really does require medication).

"Tax the churches."
-Frank Zappa

 

Well, to be completely fair, Viagra is used to TREAT A DISEASE (Erectile Dysfunction), while contraceptives aren't (in the vast majority of cases, anyway).

If Viagra was covered while medications for a yeast infection or something similar weren't, THEN your "sexism" argument might hold water.

Oral contraceptives should be OTC anyway. Why should a woman need to get a note from her doctor in order to get laid?

 

Erectile dysfunction isn't a disease. It can be a symptom, which is not the same as a disease. Mistaking the symptom for the disease is the fatal flaw of the allopathic view of medicine, which the pharmaceutical industry further exploits to an ignorant public. Erectile dysfunction is treatable by means other than medicine, such as lifestyle changes, and is not life-threatening, while some pregnancies can be. True, pregnacy can be prevented by total abstinence, but that brings us to the original question of why Viagara is covered and contraception isn't, and, as you commented, women shouldn't need a "permission slip" from a doctor in order to have sex.

In my experience it's been the non-hormonal contraceptives, such as IUD's, that aren't covered, which excludes women for whom the progesterone in in other contraceptives might prove a health risk, such as raising blood pressure.

 

Can I just ask who told you that you suffered from it?, because it isnt like doctors lack complicity in the drugs scam.

 

I think you will find it was Donald Rhumsfeld, as head of the pharmaceutical syndicate that kept the price of those drugs fixed at an extortionately high price - even in Africa - that killed 12 million people so far. That is why I have often criticesed Rhumsfeld as being a mass murderer on the scale of Lenin and Hitler. It was he, alone that took the decision not to release the AIDS drugs free or cheaply to Africa.
If you want I will post a link to his CV (Resume' as As Americans call it) but its easy to find. Personaly I believe he should answer to the world for that.