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Pharmaceutical Industry: The Cost of Innovation
This chapter explores the exhilarating yet alarming realities of working in the pharmaceutical industry during a drug boom, highlighting lavish marketing practices and the pressure to prescribe psychotropic medications. It addresses the troubling correlation between increased medication use and rising rates of deaths from despair, revealing significant concerns over the efficacy of popular treatments like statins. The discussion unfolds the complexities and ethical dilemmas within drug approval processes, emphasizing the impact of profit motives on patient safety and the quality of healthcare.