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How Industry Promotion Affects Prescribing – PharmedOut

    Pharmaceutical marketing goes beyond drug reps and TV ads. This CME activity covers how pharmaceutical companies use social psychology to affect therapeutic choices, and covers the use of key opinion leaders, medical science liaisons, medical meetings, geotargeting, geofencing, and other tactics used to market drugs to physicians. This activity is presented by PharmedOut and is supported by Kaiser Permanente.

    4. ‘Mental health’ is defined and controlled by profit-driven commercial interests

    For decades, psychiatry in collusion with pharmaceutical companies and to a lesser degree device manufacturers, has turned the subject of mental health into a for-profit free-for-all where patients have become repeat customers …
    Money tied up with rope

    Commercial interests have captured mental health

    Is there anything not influenced by money? To answer this question, if there is anything, it isn’t very important. Commercial interests, Big Pharma, and device manufacturers in collusion with psychiatry, …