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Drugs and Pharmaceuticals - 2002
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Your Mental Health - and the Pharmaceutical Industry
08/12/2002
Your mental health - in big Pharma's hands? Cast your mind to all those information brochures in your doctor's waiting room. Some of them come from pharmaceutical companies but at first glance this isn't always apparent. They don't always mention they have a product for just the symptoms being discussed, though skeptics would argue that this is implicit in their message. Are the awareness raising efforts of pharmaceutical companies a case of good corporate citizenship? Or are they promoting the problems as a way of promoting their products? And how does all this affect the clinical decisions of psychiatrists?
