What impact does the Drug Industry have on our health?
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33 yo female student RN.\nHuge...advertising, and of course, the reps in the healthcare setting that push their drugs for increased sale purposes. It is the doctors that ultimately decide what to give patients, and the patients who ultimately decide to take the drug. When you say health? Are you speaking of wellness or illness?
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Greed, pure and simple. Most major drug companies are located here in the US and are major political contributers. The countries you mentioned all have government health care. The US government fought tooth-and-nail against allowing US citizens to buy drugs from Canada because that would hurt drug companies profits and, in the long run, political contributions.\n\nCongress will never vote for universal health coverage because it hurts their bottom line. It's just as well. Beatle drummer Ringo Starr once commented that “Everything the government touches turns to crap.”
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go to drugs.com and look up the effects on the medication.
658269
drugs do a lot of nasty things to the body, especially when you're a kid and still growing up. messing with the systems drugs take advantage of can change the progress of development and lead to long term changes/problems in drug users over people who don't use drugs.
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My husband is a U.S. Marshall, so I know this! Anything that pertains to the production, use, or sale of any type of illegal, prescription, or non prescription drug.
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Drugs are chemicals that disrupt the natural chemistry of your body.  It makes no difference whether prescribed by a doctor or purchased off the street.  One should only take those that are absolutely needed.\nWith street drug, you have no assurance about quality control.  With drugs from a pharmacy, often unlisted side effects can be deadly.  For example, there is a current case against Eli Lily for marketing a drug which apparently turned thousands of people into diabetics.
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I would recommend looking into a study of a cleaning(cleanability vs surface finish) for processing equipment in the pharmaceutical industries. This has not been performed to my knowledge(I have thought about performing and writing a paper but haven't had the time), should be reasonably simple to to perform, and would open oppertunities into a growth industry.
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An addiction that becomes the main thing in your life is the most important effect. Malnutrition since you have no enthusiasm for eating. STDs if you sell your body to get money for the drugs.\n\nThere are more but that is a start on what the problems are.
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There are innumberable impacts. \nSOME ARE POSITIVE AND SOME NEGATIVE.\n\nOur education system, communication system, transposrtation, and many other social institutions have largly improved.\n\nMedia (print, elctronic) have changed working of our social groups particularly the NGOs.\n\nHuman values have been grately damadged. \n\nIndustrializtion has made the men short of time so relationships have becomes burden.\n\nElectronic media and IT have made the men indifferent from follow beings.\n\nFinancial institutions, particularly the leazing mechanary has made the men slave, indirectly to the financial loans.\n\nMen has lost cultural values of ethics.\n\nEveryday life has become fast, independent and easy but too busy and mechanical.\n\nHealth care has greatly increased and so life expectancy.
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The stock market would be perturbed. Other forms of criminality would know a sharp increase. The agriculture of some countries would be severed and so the local economies. Petty crimes would know a rise in some areas. \n\nAccording to the DEA and to many other experts, (illegal) estimates vary. The drug market would represent about 3.5 to 8 percent of the world GDP. This estimate include all by-products, which are cover up companies and business activities, legal fee and lawyer incomes, budgets of drug enforcement administrations, shipping, prisons costs, etc.
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Actually drug companies don't have a responsibility to the patients. But they have a single responsibility to its share holders; to increase the profits. Unfortunately, they are companies trying to make money. They want to be well, but they don't want to give you a pill that will cure you. They want you to take the pill for the rest of your life so they can make money while you can be disease-free. For AIDS, we don't have a single pill that can make you well. But we have a so-called "cocktail", which is a combination of a dozen or so of pills, that you have to take for the rest of your life.
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When was the last time any big moneymaking disease was cured?  In this advanced scientific age you would think quite often.  I don't have an exact answer, but I can't think of anything recent.  It would not be profitable for the pharmaceutical companies.  So instead, we just get better ways to control our disease and we live longer so that they can make even more money from us.  Will it ever happen?  Probably.  Will it happen in our lifetime?  Doubtful.
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health and nutrition...the buzzword of this century...sure you have a great future...its predicted that health industry is going to be a trillion dollar business in the forthcoming years(next 10 years)..so be confident of your decision!!!
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Pharma companies make wayyy too much money on the "drug cocktail", the many drugs AIDS patients must take.  A cure means no one buys those drugs anymore.  It is in the best interest of their profit margin and their existense as a company that they never find a cure.
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drugs are seriously bad for you\none bad reaction to a pill can kill\none pint will hardly have any affect( in most people lol )\n\ndrug users create a huge problem for society. a high percentage of criminals are involed in drugs in one way shape or form.\nmental health is a huge problem for most hard core drug users.\ni not saying alcohol - drink are faultless, not at all in fact our streets are not safe after closing time most nights\n\nhowever rather than throwing our hands up and saying we give up we cant cope or deal with you. we must continue to strive to help those affected by drugs, users and their friends/families.\n\nwe must not create a free for all society where anything goes.\nwe are adults and have choice but some people make the wrong choices.\nlaws protect people from criminals and by legalising drugs you are in a round about way legalisiing the actions of people in an altered state( much the same as drunk behaviour, sorry gov i didnt mean to run her over i was drunk etc)\n\nmaking aware the facts of drugs is a great thing to do but what good does it do to a 15 yr old who dies due to bad reaction...many known cases.\n\ndrink and smoke are also addictive but the effects are medically researched and reported. they also do not not need criminal acts to fund.\nthe effect of drugs on mental health are totally incomplete and research is already showing links to schizoprenia and other mental illness'\n\nlets hope that progress is made and we can combat all of societys ilness'\nbut meanwhile \n\ndont give up trying
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It can be linked to exposure to chemicals and various toxins.
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Pharmaceutical companies