Posted by med_empowered on November 28, 2005, at 17:36:05
In reply to Re: Is it just the US? » med_empowered, posted by ed_uk on November 28, 2005, at 16:40:49
yeah, you're probably right. If you look back at the old ads aimed at docs, you can kind of see that even those were misleading, but still pretty effective (ex: a Miltown+anticholinergic compound for depression that, although never proven clinically, was available and RX'd from the 50s to the 90s). I read an interesting article about psych drugs..it pointed out how, early on, drugs were shown as supporting ongoing therapy (and therefore being under the control of the doc and a part of his/her "treatment"). These days, you dont see docs in ads that much anymore; I kind of wonder if Big Pharma is making "true" medicine a thing of the past by pushing the power of pills over the power of people and good patient management.
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