How about banning them entirely.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2024
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IIRC, only a handful of countries in the world allow them for prescription meds. They should be gone.
US and New Zealand
Yeah what do they need ads for? If I have what they are claiming to cure I'll go looking for them or my doctor can tell me.
The people dont need them. There's no way in hell the internet sites or modern apps or current TVor radio stations will give them up though. It's a major source of funding for them
That would require anti-corruption measures like “don’t give money directly to lawmakers bank accounts”.
Has anyone ever asked their doctor about what Flornazix can do for you or whatever?
I traveled a lot, and I mean A LOT in late 90s to 2010s. And wow does it scare me how often the ads here in the usa are preying on the minds of people who are (or worse, want to be) sick. Only worse, is your doctor is being paid for putting you on it too. Italy, France, UK, all places I frequented and none of them have had adverts that I’ve ever seen for prescription medications.
None of them have them because they're only legal in the U.S. and New Zealand.
People want to be sick? What?
If you watch these commercials, they play to your inner voice who is always asking “shit, is that weird thing on my body… cancer!?!?!?”. So now you’re off to the doc to describe the same symptoms you think you’ve had based on the TV ads warning you to see your doctor. Doc runs some tests and then they’re prescribing preventitall, the latest drug that cures it all.
There are people out there that just want to be sick, or close enough. My Ex was that way in a sense, it gave her attention. A cold was A MAJOR LIFE EVENT… and the fact I didn’t give her 150% of my attention was so annoying. She was dying of course, always dying. Sigh, I don’t miss her.
There is a difference between wanting to be sick and being paranoid and afraid of being sick. No one wants to be sick.
Between the “I have an immune system and I don’t need no mask and covid isn’t real anyway” crowd and the munchausen patients, there’s a lot of people. One reason why “whole body scans” as a diagnostic tool on healthy patients is controversial is that you end up making the patient think they have something that they demand treatment for. In this case, patients will request specific meds or tests based on a marketing campaign specifically designed to sell drugs. Patients don’t need that kind of input, and it’s potentially harmful - not because people want to be sick, but because of the kind of phenomenon that makes WebMD users think they must have cancer.
Everything you mentioned is anxiety and fear, or just plain old ignorance, not “I wish I was sick”. How are you not able to understand the difference?
Hypochondriacs.
Huh? Those people are afraid of being sick. They are paranoid. That’s an extreme difference than wanting to be sick.