How the pharmaceutical industry creates millions of sick people
“Medical science is an industrial enterprise run and controlled by manufacturers
(doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical laboratories) which encourage the diffusion of procedures
avant-garde expensive and complicated, and thus reduce the patient and his family
to the status of docile customers".
Ivan Illych
“The business model of the pharmaceutical industry is based precisely on the enlargement of the sphere
of diseases: creative marketing serves to expand the customer base,
convincing those who are probably healthy to consider themselves at least moderately ill".
Allen Frances, psychiatrist.
Edoardo Capuano – Sat, 09/24/2016 – ECplanet
Disease marketing is the fine art of selling ailments, an effective way of peddling drugs and tests that bring in huge profits.
This commercialization requires a very precise direction, of the main actors, secondary and many extras. Pharmaceutical companies (directors and producers) must necessarily involve doctors (protagonists) to prescribe the recipes, they must involve researchers (supporting actors) who invent real new disorders, groups of patients and/or families of sick people (extras) who loudly ask for a supplement of therapy, and finally the real patients who ask for these drugs because they are convinced they are sick (unconscious spectators).
The purpose of this work is to reveal the plot and the script of this documentary, seen and experienced every year by hundreds of millions of people... Only if you know exactly how the system works are you able to defend yourself.
People without correct and complete information will all end up, sooner or later, crushed by the infernal machine of pharmaceutical marketing. it's just a matter of time.
Index
Introduction
- The disease market
- Drugs and animal experimentation
- Big Pharma
- Doctors in the crosshairs
- Leading causes of death
- Medicalization alarm
1 – Cognitive plan
- Information manipulation
- Some control techniques
2 – Quantitative plan
- Lowering of normal values
- Some examples of lowering of normal values
- Osteoporosis
- Infants and percentiles
- Pediatric vaccinations
3 – Time plan
- Anticipation in time of diagnoses
- The disease calendar
- Importance of words
- Importance of information
- Breast cancer screening
- Lung cancer screening
- Prostate cancer screening
- Prostate biopsy
- Fecal occult blood test
- What do autopsies reveal?
- Cervical cancer screening
- Thyroid cancer screening
- Mole mapping: skin cancer screening
- Vascular screening
- Overdiagnosis
- Crash me
- tumor markers
4 – Quality plan
- Creating real diseases
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Menopause
- Mental Screenings
- DSM and invented diagnoses
- Premenstrual dysphoric disorder
- Social anxiety disorder
- ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- ADHD: Adult Attention Deficit Disorder
- Pediatric bipolar disorder
- Restless legs syndrome
- Result of disease mongering
Conclusion
- What can we do
- The meaning of the disease
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Ed.: In Italy, information on medicines for doctors and pharmacists is regulated by the Legislative Decree 219/06. The art. 122 says that “information on medicinal products can be provided to the doctor and pharmacist by scientific representatives”.
The art. 121 of the Decree, however, provides that "advertising to pharmacists of medicines that can be sold on presentation of a medical prescription is limited to the information contained in the summary of the characteristics of the medicine”. No sale!
Still in the art. 122 it is specified that "Scientific reps must report to the scientific service referred to in Article 126, on which they depend, and to the head of the pharmacovigilance service referred to in paragraph 4 of article 130, all information on the undesirable effects of medicines, attaching, where possible, a copy of the reporting forms used by the doctor pursuant to title IX”.
In the art. 126 in fact it is reiterated that “each company that holds the marketing authorization for medicinal products must have a scientific service in charge of information on the medicines it places on the market” and check “that scientific whistleblowers at own addictions are in possession of adequate training and comply with the obligations imposed by this decree”.
To the art. 128 it is stated that “In the event of irregular advertising carried out at healthcare professionals, AIFA adopts, if necessary, the measures indicated in article 118, paragraph 13”.
The body that controls the correctness of the scientific information and that marketing is excluded from the same scientific information is therefore AIFA. But it is so? How many checks have you done? How many were outlawed?
