Фармацевтические монополии и коррупция

[onb2017]

Фармацевтические монополии, всё больше поглощающие рынок медикаментов, вот уже несколько лет пользуются излюбленными методами увеличения своих прибылей даже в ведущих империалистических державах, не говоря уж о странах, которые акулы капитализма считают второсортными. К таким относятся и Россия, и бывшие союзные республики, и некоторые бывшие

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[matrixmann]

Well, I don't think it's not an incorrect assumption that something like that what happened in West Germany with Contergan can never happen again. It's a matter of profit vs. gain comparison for the big pharma enterprises.

If you're dependent on medication, you can tell yourself there's not much you can do as you barely got a choice to not take a pill. Without it, your condition is gonna get worse. Maybe you've got the luck to have a good doctor which is sceptic to changing medication too often - or you got a severe disease where new treatments take long time and you gonna be put on the same stuff for a pretty long time if it works for you.

As you name depression: Think I read an article this year which made me laugh. They experimented with ketamine and found out it's a pretty good drug to treat depressive people. I know that stuff from the Acid Techno scene in talking, and it made me laugh for that reason "What do you think people always ate that for at Techno parties? To become happier than they otherwisely were already! That shit does work!!"
You know, maybe it's for reason that in English you can use for both medication as well as for dope to your body one and the same word - "drugs".
They should sometimes even get back to it if not these known drugs contain some compounds that can help you for a modern problem of civilization that didn't exist when these substances were created. (You know, most of all chemical drugs known today in several party scenes were already known by the time WWII happened.)
As people with ADHD say who did coke: The shit calms you down. The shit that's supposed to make you go hyper calms these people with this brain anomaly down and makes them reach concentration for once. I don't know how the famous Ritalin works, but I could guess the principle is no other.

[onb2017]

Or and speaking of synthetic drugs, I read that there are lots of natural substances that are effective but they don't want to use them because you cannot patent them. But then they synthesize the same damn thing, put a brand name on it and sell it making billions of dollars.

[matrixmann]

Well... Part yes, part no. Saying, people in the Middle Ages before modern medicine emerged, they were a lot of dumb, but some way they also must have survived if they got sick. They sometimes knew a few things about medicine - straight from your Central European envionment - which are totally forgotten these days. These things come back into play if modern medicine reaches the limits of its knowledge.
On another hand again, this gives a lot of potential to hocus pocus treatment.

[onb2017]

Don't get me wrong I am not saying we have to treat illnesses only with herbal stuff. For example, penicillin was very important for humanity. What I am trying to say that sometimes there are natural formulas that are available but corporations use synthesis to create drugs to make them their exclusive possessions so they can make money of unfortunate people.

[matrixmann]

I think I got that right, no worries.
Even though, I remain with what I said.
Maybe you know it yourself - people being terminally ill or dissatisfied with what modern medicine can offer to you or worried over nothing, just having seen a campaign stating XYZ is poisonous to the human body, and they turn to "alternative medicine" and believe in every shit they see there from then on.

[onb2017]

Oh yeah, alternative medicine is alternative way of making money all right. I know what you mean. And all these herbal stuff that they promise will cure cancer and grow an arm on you if you are missing one. Just kidding on this one but this is pretty much what they claim.

[matrixmann]

That's what I meant.