Mental Health Update

A look at the way pharmaceuticals are marketing diseases to increase the potential market.

They have also actively worked to redefine or blur the definitions of recognized conditions so as to justify diagnosing them in more patients, thus increasing the potential market for their products, and have publicly advertised their products for conditions which affect small proportions of the population in order to create demand for medication for conditions - especially ones affecting children - that the public fears but does not understand, such as ADHD (by publicizing controversial treatments to parents and teachers) and bipolar disorder (through advertising literally intended to convince women that they are crazier than they or their psychiatrists believe).

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