Pharmaceuticals' being held to account....

I should qualify showing this link by prefacing it with the statement "They don't address psych drugs". However, it DOES talk about issues VERY relevant to this forum ( Having said that, I can't be sure mood-changing drugs were even considered in their study...). It's an article entitled 'Half of drugs prescribed in France useless or dangerous, say two specialists', shown in the relatively respectable Guardian newspaper from the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/se ... -dangerous Pharmaceutical companies are worth millions. A family friend who is a Rheumatologist, after getting approval from the Health Minister of a particularly down-trodden nation in Africa, approached a pharmaceutical company and suggested they combine two drugs in to one so as to totally rid some country in Africa of a particular life-threatening disease - I can't remember where or what it was - I was probably around 10 yrs when this idea was floating around my family home. The pharmaceutical company flatly refused. Of course they were a listed company and making profits bolstered their credibility, not gestures of kindness...
I DO however think that this multi-billion dollar industry should be held to account to some extent. When they're rewarding Doctors with air tickets and other freebies for prescribing a particular drug, there's clearly something wrong.... (I can't be sure the practice of rewarding prescriptions written still continues in Australia - I can only say it goes to show how low they will stoop and what motivates them...)
Anyway, it would be interesting to hear feed-back.
Emma <3

InterestedObserver wrote:I should qualify showing this link by prefacing it with the statement "They don't address psych drugs". However, it DOES talk about issues VERY relevant to this forum ( Having said that, I can't be sure mood-changing drugs were even considered in their study...). It's an article entitled 'Half of drugs prescribed in France useless or dangerous, say two specialists', shown in the relatively respectable Guardian newspaper from the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/se ... -dangerous Pharmaceutical companies are worth millions. A family friend who is a Rheumatologist, after getting approval from the Health Minister of a particularly down-trodden nation in Africa, approached a pharmaceutical company and suggested they combine two drugs in to one so as to totally rid some country in Africa of a particular life-threatening disease - I can't remember where or what it was - I was probably around 10 yrs when this idea was floating around my family home. The pharmaceutical company flatly refused. Of course they were a listed company and making profits bolstered their credibility, not gestures of kindness...
I DO however think that this multi-billion dollar industry should be held to account to some extent. When they're rewarding Doctors with air tickets and other freebies for prescribing a particular drug, there's clearly something wrong.... (I can't be sure the practice of rewarding prescriptions written still continues in Australia - I can only say it goes to show how low they will stoop and what motivates them...)
Anyway, it would be interesting to hear feed-back.
Emma <3

It just blew me away when I saw those ads on CNN, all T.V for Cymbalta and then I searched "Cymbalta Withdrawal" Try It :

http://www.google.com/search?q=cymbalta+withdrawal

Page after page of horror stories, I dont think they care at all . Ask your doctor about Cymbalta ?

Ask my doctor to look on google cause everything the drug rep told him/her is a lie ?