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CanSocDem

(3,286 posts) Wed Dec 7, 2011, 11:09 AM Dec 2011

Marketing Illness

Supply-driven marketing not only turns the nation into pill-popping hypochondriacs, it distracts from Pharma's drought of real drugs for real medical problems.

http://www.alternet.org/story/153332/seven_diseases_big_pharma_hopes_you_get_in_2012?akid=7957.15894.-TMnNP&rd=1&t=2

Everyday problems labeled as "depression" sailed Pharma through the last two decades. You weren't sad, mad, scared, confused, remorseful, grieving, or even exploited. You were depressed, and there was a pill for that. But depression peaked just like the Atkins Diet and the Macarena. Luckily, there is adult ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), which has doubled in women 45 to 65 and tripled in men and women 20 to 44, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Marketing Illness (Original Post) CanSocDem Dec 2011 OP

Message deleted by the DU Administrators sherlyroger86 Dec 2011 #1

Wouldn't you know it.... CanSocDem Dec 2011 #2

Someone who was spamming the forum with a commercial advertisement. trotsky Dec 2011 #3

WHAT...!!!???? CanSocDem Dec 2011 #4

I'm glad you put the word commerce in quotes. trotsky Dec 2011 #5

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CanSocDem

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2. Wouldn't you know it....

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Mon Dec 12, 2011, 11:21 AM

Dec 2011

I finally get a reply to this insightful essay and it is DELETED. One can only guess why...???

Who could possibly be upset to read that pharmacuetical companies utilize proven marketing techniques to sell their wares...???? I ask you...

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