Why does there seem to be a pill for everything from losing weight-depression-change of weather-blah de blah?

dont most people know that pharmaceutical companies are just making up diseases so that they can market new pills for you to buy so that you can pay off their mercedes and multimillion dollars?
i wouldnt be surprised if they paid people on questions and answers to pretend to be real people who take the drug and give raving reviews about them.
what people do for money!!!


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With the diet pill I think most people are so used to having instant gratification and easy ways to do things because of all the technology we have making out lives so easy. A person would rather pop a pill and not have to do anything else than work hard for the results they want. Since there are so many obese and overweight people now there is a high demand for this easy way out. Where there is a demand the drug companies are willing to supply since it will make them rich.

I do also believe there are people out there who benefit greatly from having anti-depressents. Depression is a horrible thing to go through and if someone can take a pill combined with regular therapy to make them better I say more power to them. The thing that gets me so angry about the abundent use of antidepressents is that so many children and adults have these drugs fed to them so easily. There are millions of children being diagnosed with ADHD and have drugs shoved down their throats after such a generic diagnosis. I think it also goes back to people being lazy and wanting an easy way out.

Not to sound all conspiricy theory, but I do think Drs. get such a kickback from pushing these meds. I have been reccomended by so many doctors to start taking anxiety or anti-depressents off of some really silly symptoms. If you even think of checking the loss of sleep box on the basic questionaire they give you at the Dr. office then they will push these on you so hard.

Wow, sorry for the rant.

Yup, that's the pharmaceutical industry for ya: we can make 10 different erection pills but can't make an effective drug for cancer....

yeah its obsurd isnt it? im scared of the effects that u hear about mainly weight gain so i stick with the same stuff ive been taking since i was born -
antibiotics
cough syrup
and paracetamol (a pain killer)

We have been so brainwashed by TV ads and also by the American Medical Association that we have become a nation of pill-poppers. They make us believe that pain and illness are unnatural and therefore unacceptable.
We can take pills to gain weight and other pills to lose it.
There are many people on stress-relievers and anti-anxiety meds who will never learn how to deal with reality.
There are too many totally undisciplined kids on Ritalin.
We have became a nation of neurotics and hypochondriacs. And everybody who reads this, will think that I am talking about somebody else.

A case in point---Years ago, my aunt and her three daughters were convinced that they had some sort of blood disease which caused them to bleed easily and excessively. The problem was that they each took as many as ten aspirin tablets almost every day.