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The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most powerful and greedy industries in our country, with a goal to make as large a profit as possible, at the expense of the sick.

With access to prescription drugs, people are able to treat a multitude of diseases and illnesses. These drugs help deal with pain, inability to sleep, depression, and much more. Every day we are increasingly living in a world where there is better living through chemicals. However, what most do not seem to see is the rising tide of pain, illness, and ultimately death being caused by the pills people take every day. Most keep drugs in a special place in their minds, where they see them as harmless. Sadly, this is not the case, and in some cases our prescription drugs can be just as harmful as illegal drugs (King 68).

Bell continued to interview a journalist named Greg Critser, who authored the book “Generation RX,” which is about the relationship between America and pharmaceuticals. He exclaims that drug companies advertise their product so much that it internalizes inside individuals that the drugs they’re selling are good and not poison, then he continued where the drug is somewhat of a poison where it kills another thing off to benefit another. Pharmaceutical companies also lobby the political side of their ambitions to cover up the negative side of their

We in America tend to take medications for almost any problem we have, from headaches to gastrointestinal pain, to more serious chronic disorders such as depression and attention deficit disorder. While many of the uses of such medications may be necessary and legitimate, many are not, and due to this fact, many people become dependent on medications, mentally, and or physically. This problem is not simply the fault of the individual; in fact, the blame can also be placed upon the medical community, and the pharmaceutical companies who produce the drugs. How often can one turn on the television to see advertisements for Claritin, Aspirin, Pepto-Bismol, or even Zoloft or Ritalin? The pharmaceutical industry is motivated by monetary

People all over the world, continue to be tendered prescription medication, which in many cases further complicate health issues with its myriad of side effects. In fact, statistics have shown that approximately 100,000 people around the world die as a result of prescription drugs annually (Smith, 2012). On the contrary, according

Although not everything is bad about prescribed medication. There are some positive effects to go with taking prescribed medication. One of them is that when you take physician endorsed medications, they can frequently be the response forever undermining conditions including hypertension, elevated cholesterol or much malignancy. These medications fortify and imitate a well-working body, so there are various individuals whose lives are spared every day on account of doctor prescribed medications. Without them, they would have a lower personal satisfaction and even hazard demise. Not all medications are utilized to treat genuine illnesses. Some treat little illnesses every once in a while with extraordinary achievement. Anti-toxins for diseases,

There are many direct to consumer advertising for prescription drugs. On television, magazines, radio etc, you see the most recent advertisements for prescription drugs. After some people see the advertisements they soon rush over to their doctor and their illness and life would be perfectly pain and stress free. Making the public conscious of options for treatment is not a bad thing. But these false advertisements are misleading consumers onto unnecessary treatment.

Prescriptions, prescriptions,prescriptions. What are prescription drugs? Who uses prescription drugs? And why are prescription drugs important to society? Throughout a person’s entire life, prescription drugs are consumed. Whether the issue is for headaches, cramps, or sickness, prescriptions are there to make a person feel better. Moreover, different types of prescription drugs are used to treat different types of illnesses or reduce the symptoms. However, people do better toughing it out than taking a prescribed drug. A person who has a cold and is taking a prescribed drug has a higher risk of a disease while another person who has a cold and is not taking a prescription drug doesn’t. Due to the issues, prescription drugs need to reform or

The war on drugs has been a topic of much discussion since Nixon’s Presidency. This war on drugs has attacked street drugs like marijuana, heroin, LSD and other various popular drugs sold by individual drug dealers (“9 Most Common Street Drugs”). With the focus on ending illegal drug use and trafficking, other easily abused substances have become more popular. Some of these substances are doctor prescribed medication. Accessibility and effects of these drugs have made them a drug of choice for many addicts. Prescription medication is on the rise and needs to be monitored. There are many reasons for the increase in abuse of prescription medications like the massive overprescribing, the way pharmaceutical representatives bribe doctors to prescribe certain drugs more regularly, and how television ads give the general population a false belief in the last risks of many medications.

“The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient’s hopes are the physician’s secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription,” this quote by journalist, Norman Cousins, embodies a controversial aspect of the current pharmaceutical industry. Who doesn’t fear death or sickness? Taking care of our bodies is extremely important, since we only have one. In modern days there are all kinds of unnatural drugs to help us advance in our daily routines. Our normal every day troubles can be easily manipulated by drug advertising companies, making people fear that they have a problem. The pharmaceutical industry advertises prescription drugs to doctors and consumers trying to make the most profits and keep up with competitors. The more prescriptions written, the more profit the company makes. There has been controversy with pharmaceutical companies because it is one of the most important and largest industries in the world. The pharmaceutical drug industry has to have the FDA approve a New Drug Application (NDA) before a product can be placed in the market. They have to regulate whether physicians should prescribe a drug or be over the counter. The FDA also controls the marketing for pharmaceutical products. The two types of advertising that pharmaceutical companies utilize are: direct advertising to physicians (DTP) and direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) (Huh, 441). This paper on the Pharmaceutical industry

For as long as civilization has existed, humans have been looking for ways to advance in the field of medicine in order to cure illness and elongate the human lifespan. This has led to many positives such as ground-breaking new discoveries, inventions, and vaccines. One aspect of medicine that has grown dramatically in the past decade is the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceuticals are responsible for the manufacturing and the distributing of medicine in the form of drugs. While the drugs main purpose is to help the sick, you cannot say the same for the pharmaceutical industry. Unfortunately, the pharmaceuticals discovered that the more we advance in the field of medicine, the more money there is for the taking. The World Health

Modern medicine has positively impacted human life. As an American society we have gone from a life expectancy of approximately forty years to large masses of people living into their 100s. Throughout human history, things as simple the common cold and even curable diseases could wipe out an entire countries population, now with the many medical advances these circumstances can be controlled instead of being lethal. .These innovations are allowing people to live a higher quality of life as well as continuous research is inevitably leading to the cure of many different devastating illnesses. That being said, the world as we know is not perfect. There have been many technological advances in and outside the world of medicine, some of which may have led society down a dark path. With this issue of modern medicine and pharmaceutical tycoons being highly debated, three different authors have very similar opinions that have been molded from different experiences. Bronwen Hruska, is simply a concerned mother who believes her son was misdiagnosed with A.D.H.D and faced the effects of the unnecessary medication, as Alan Schwarz is a well-respected medical journalist with a highly appreciated opinion in the medical field, as Marcia Angell she is a physician who has become an activist against the pharmaceutical industry. All authors express their disturbance by the constant rising rates of psychotic diagnosis and use of medications and all the drastic effects that have come with

The birth of pharmaceutical industry has increased the longevity of our lives in society and eradicated diseases such as chicken pox and hives, but has created an addiction to prescription drugs in America. The concept of prescription has made society to believe that taking pharmaceutical drugs comes without a consequence. Though these drugs come with consequence, the positive effects of the pharmaceutical industry helped eradicate diseases that would be a potential threat to our lively hood in today’s society. The pharmaceutical industry supports health development and increased the quality of life, but the controversy of this companies is that they are profiting billions of dollars each year off our addiction and reliance of prescription

Drugs prescription from doctors can lead patients to addiction and destroy their life. Now days a lot of people misused used those prescription from doctors and the misused used of the drugs leads them to addiction which is become more dangerous in US. According to Passages Reflections Blog, "Nearly 2.5 million Americans have used prescription drugs for purely recreational reasons." People who use those drugs their body can get used to it because they will start using it to have fun, to forget their suffering, to relief their pain, also to get high, and they think that those drugs are safe because they are giving by a doctor. However, those drugs prescription can destroy a person's life without him/she knowing it slowly because the more they use it the more they get addicted to it and cannot stop using it. For example, one of my friend mother, she fall down and broke her back, the doctors gave her pain killers drugs got better

Is it any wonder then that the big drug companies are in favor of the medicate-radiate-surgery approach we described above? The focus is seldom on prevention but on how the ailments can be treated with drugs or other expensive treatments. Gwen Olson, a former pharma representative and Human Rights award winner, states on her blog: “Contrary to popular beliefs, the pharmaceutical industry isn’t in the business of health and healing. They are in the business of disease management and symptom(s) maintenance; it is out to regulate illness and keep people trapped in a lethal cycle of chemical