Big Bucks, Big Pharma: Marketing Disease & Pushing Drugs
Big Bucks, Big Pharma pulls back the curtain on the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical industry to expose the insidious ways that illness is used, manipulated, and in some instances created, for capital gain. Focusing on the industry’s marketing practices, media scholars and health professionals help viewers understand the ways in which direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising glamorizes and normalizes the use of prescription medication, and works in tandem with promotion to doctors.
Combined, these industry practices shape how both patients and doctors understand and relate to disease and treatment. Ultimately, Big Bucks, Big Pharma challenges us to ask important questions about the consequences of relying on a for-profit industry for our health and well-being. (Excerpt from mediaed.org)
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Very informative,goes in to depth on subjects we as consumers may already have some knowledge of. Id recommend this video to everyone!
Doesn’t pull any punches, especially about the effects of advertising. Interesting, however, that two of the experts specifically didn’t blame the problems on the companies themselves, although these same experts outlined many fraudulent and deceptive practices the companies engage in, but on the US government… that the companies have bought.
An excellent documentary that anyone interested in health should definitely watch.
I found it absoultely shocking how immoral and focused only on profit, (not helping people)these drug companies are.
Once again, thanks for posting Vlatko; keep up the good work!
You can read more astonishing facts about Drug companies in Marcia Angel’s book “The truth about the drug companies and how they deceive us” .
very interesting deffinitly opened my eyes after i watched it….but it get kinda dull towards the end
Heh, this is how the western civilization is in modern medicine. I don’t remember if it was Vladimir Putin or Dmitri Medvedev, but one of them said that at least Russia is honest about it’s corruption. Here’s a hint for anyone not believing this doc: pain is just a signal gone from your nerves system to your brain saying that everything isn’t ok, and that you can pull through emotional issues without succumbing to the pill use. You just need to open the emotional lock inside. I know it’s damn painful, but pain is a part of life. It’s been for millennias. Are we suddenly so weak we can’t take it anymore? No way.
You can kill your pain with sheer force of will. If it doesn’t work, take the time home from work or school, it’s perfectly legal and your doctor must give it for you if you’re unable to participate. You do NOT have to buy their pills for that sake, no matter what the doctor says. Just fix your lifestyle, take some hemp for your pain if you can’t sleep, organically grown indica strain preferrably (if you hesitate, remember that this is the medicine people have used for 5000+´years, not burana), then go to sleep. This has a much less likely failure percentage.
You’d be surprised how much that single plant can cure. And no, you don’t have to smoke it and get high, just make some oil out of it and eat it or rub it to the painful area… and there are species of hemp that you don’t get so high from, yet sustaining their medicinal value. Why aren’t they available to the general public? For the exactly same reasons as you got so much vain and expensive pills: to make certain fat rich b@#$%&*$ fatter and richer.