Big Pharma pushes doctors to overprescribe drugs, study finds
just published in The Annals of Internal Medicine, concludes more drugs are prescribed because the threshold for what constitutes an "illness" keeps getting lower and lower, thanks in large part to Big Pharma's influence. For example, what was once normal blood pressure is now too high or, if approaching high, is called "pre-hypertension" and Big Pharma recommends treatment.
That means doctors are rewarded by drug companies for prescribing more and more drugs. Perhaps most disturbing is what Hunt calls a "prescribing cascade." Simply put, drugs are prescribed to help relieve side effects caused by other drugs. Then still more drugs can be prescribed to relieve any new side-effects from the recently prescribed drugs.
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