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Erectile dysfunction[edit]

I removed the sentence "This is not really a new condition, just one that was unusual before profitable "ED" treatments went on the market." because it was unsourced and I am almost certain it's not true. I've read numerous references from throughout history to men of advanced age having difficulties in this area. Of course my objection is likewise unsourced, so if someone can find a reference indicating that ED is in fact an invention of Big Pharma, by all means restore it, with the proper citation. PenitentWhaler (talk) 20:47, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

Turns out there is a video game called: Big Pharma. Should we add it for fun?[edit]

I mean it would be funny. — Unsigned, by: ‎110.21.26.117 / talk / contribs

I'd say create an article in the Funspace for it, simply because we could go strides with making an entire article solely joking about the game and its reception by anti-vaxxers, for example. Gooniepunk (talk) 10:12, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Sure. Man, I am new here. I have no idea how to do anything but I think I may be able to manage. This is how you sign right? 110.21.26.117 (talk) 10:19, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Add A Section on Amphetamines and Abuse Rates?[edit]

I've got a link[1]. Thoughts?

On amphetamine ABUSE, certainly. But there's nothing wrong with the medication - it is literally even healthy long-term for the right demographics- and the vast majority of adult ADHD suffers are underdiagnosed and undermedicated/medicated wrongly. Thus there are two problems to cover: the ABUSE of amphetamines, and the failure to get enough amphetamines out to enough people who have a legitimate medical need, but are undiagnosed or have otherwise fallen through the cracks. Signed, a clinically diagnosed adult ADHD sufferer and daily user of medicinal amphetamines, without which my life would not function and without which I might not have been here today. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 20:28, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
And ps: ADHD denialism and fear of psychopharmacology are two core pillars of the modern Anti-psychiatry movement (often led by fronts for Scientology). We cannot do enough to refute those anti-science scumbags. They play with the lives of their fellow man just like the anti-vaxxers do. For just as good reason, too. To one hundred percent a force of needless destruction, confusion and suffering today. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 20:33, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Price gouging and Regulation[edit]

What a farce. Is this article arguing for de-regulation? What, has RW been taken over by Paul-bots and anti-government Reagan/Gingrich Republicans? Price gouging and monopoly pricing on drugs exists for one reason and one reason only : FDA regulators. You need to clarify some of these issues before you start going down that road in this article. nobsBern baby bern 19:35, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Agreed. As a person living in a rich, industrialised western country - the source of the bizarre medicine prices in the US are due to lack of government intervention. See Canada, France, the UK, Sweden... countries where medicine is affordable via Healthcare being a right, not a priviliege. In northern US states, some Americans travel across the border to Canada to get the cancer Medication just because it is something like a hundred times cheaper there. And the FDA needs MORE funding, an enhanced jurisdiction and - most importantly - a firewall to the pharmaceutical industry, not less of any of these. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 20:21, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
And also to curb this price gouging.--Kugelschreiber (talk) (mail) (block) 20:25, 19 June 2016 (UTC) 20:25, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
Yes, absolutely. The point being first and foremost to serve and protect the customers/end users/citizens, from quacks charlatans as well as horribad business practices from major companies. And I'm not saying an environment conducive to the growth and prosperity of the pharmacological industry isn't important too - it totally is - but there needs to be a system of checks and balances for all parties involved, et cetera... It needs to be something that's not the current situation in the US. Nor am I saying any other nation has a flawless utopia, but let's face it - the US healthcare system is a joke compared to the rest of the industrialised world, even when some of those countries are running with severe handicaps (and sometimes also suffer from poor choicemaking in other areas) compared to the US. Point being, Bernie and the movie Sicko is on to something. Reverend Black Percy (talk) 21:18, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Is it a conspiracy theory that Big Pharma and Big Alcohol have prevented the legalization of marijuana for profit motives?[edit]

I call that common sense. Objective (talk) 15:37, 8 August 2016 (UTC)

Yes and no. If recreational or medicinal marijuana were fully legalized, Big Pharma & Phillip Morris (Big Tobacco) would soon tkae over the market. We seen this already in Big Pharma taking over the opiate market with oxycodone, oxycotine, etc., or the Colorado marijuana packing regulation that effectively put all the mom 'n pop growers who fought for legalization for 30 years out of the retail end of the business. Call it corporate cronyism. nobsBern baby bern 00:41, 10 August 2016 (UTC)