Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Selling Sickness to the Well
A new book looks at how pharmaceutical companies are using aggressive marketing campaigns to turn more people into patients.
From headlines that tell us that caffeine addiction is a mental disorder, to the overprescription of ritalin to children, the question arises: are the drug companies and mental health institutions scamming us?
See our previous post on how the CDC was caught red handed earlier this year, lying to us about the dangers of being fat.
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From headlines that tell us that caffeine addiction is a mental disorder, to the overprescription of ritalin to children, the question arises: are the drug companies and mental health institutions scamming us?
See our previous post on how the CDC was caught red handed earlier this year, lying to us about the dangers of being fat.
# posted by Pete @ 1:47 PM 
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