Ask Your Doctor if This Big Pharma Scam Is Right for You: The Dangers of a Drugged Up America

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" class="spotlight" height="300" src="https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1470367_10151816733187499_538703226_n.jpg" style="height: 380px; width: 380px;" width="300" /></div>Photo Credit: preventdisease.com<br /><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'Welcome to medicated America, where the fix for every problem--from incontinence to erectile dysfunction, stiff joints to mood swings, weight gain to wrinkles-- is just a prescription away.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Thus the beautiful images, stirring music, attractive actors, and soothing words in the omnipresent, multibillion-dollar kaleidoscope of drug advertising by Pfizer, Merck, Eli Lilly, Johnson & Johnson, and other giants of Big Pharma--all pitching their particular brand-name nostrum directly at us hoi polloi (the industry spends a fourth of its income on ads and other promotions, nearly double its expenditures on research and development). </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">The corporate come-ons typically conclude with a phrase that has achieved cliche status in America's vernacular: "Ask your doctor if 'Suprema Wundercure' is right for you."'</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/155331/ask_your_doctor_if_this_big_pharma_scam_is_right_for_you%3A_the_dangers_of_a_drugged_up_america">more... </a></span>

Ask Your Doctor if This Big Pharma Scam Is Right for You: The Dangers of a Drugged Up America

Photo Credit: preventdisease.com 'Welcome to medicated America, where the fix for every problem--from incontinence to erectile dysfuncti...

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