Note to reader: these are just my opinions, so read with an open-mind. None of what I say is fabricated or exaggerated to help my point, all these facts are findable online.
Chances are you've never heard or seen these names before, but they are as big a part of your life as possible. These are just 3 of the hundreds of Pharmaceutical Companies that create, manufacture and distribute drugs across the world. They, each, make around 50 billion dollars a year. Mac computers make around 20 billion a year, just for comparison reasons. Thats an extremely impressive yearly revenue, and its only increasing. From cough medicine, to opiates strong enough to kill an elephant. They are in a business that suppose to help, and somehow, its growing?
Pfizer is the most profitable "big pharma" company there is. So they must be doing the most to help the people out, helping us keep healthy. Yet they have a yearly growth of 2%, how is that possible? How is a company selling drugs to keep us healthy making more and more money every year? How can this be? It just doesn't make sense, but it does if you look hard enough.
When you are starting a business, what is your main goal and purpose? To make money, and keep making money. Thats the number one rule of business, is to STAY in business. When a company makes a product, they purposely make it have its flaws, because it is was perfect then you wouldn't need another one. Its everywhere, everything breaks, gets outdated, everything needs a upgrade. You think with the amazing technology these days that Ford or Honda could make a car that could last decades, I'm sure they could. But if everyones car lasted decades they would lose money. This rule applies to everything, even our health.
So do you think that if we cured common colds, would there be a need for any products that come along with it? The companies would lose money, and thats just not acceptable. So why not make us a little sick, so we have to buy their medicines or visit their hospitals. Its all business common sense, yet people refuse to believe that the companies thats suppose to get us healthy and be a ray of sunshine in our bleak skies might actually be the cause of the gray skies.
All I am saying is, educate yourselves. Next time your doctor recommends something for you, whether it be for "ADD" or a cough, look it up. Research the side-effects, look for long term studies. You never know when something you might take can get rid of something, but give you something that you would need more medicine for.
by the way, Methylphenidate (ritalin, concerta) the drug that helps treat ADD ADHD (which plagues about 5% of the earths population.) In a study, Cocaine Addicts were injected with cocaine, and/or methylphenidate. None could distinguish the difference between the two. This is from our beloved Pharmaceutical Companies.
and one more thing there are 106,000 deaths a year related to prescribed drugs. Thats more then diabetes, pneumonia, and alzheimer's.