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Originally posted by powerclown
Depressed people help feed these peoples' families, send their kids to college, pay their mortgage, finance their vacations, put gas in their BMWs.
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Your point? Why would anyone pay tens of thousands of dollars and work their asses off for years to get through med school if there wasn't any kind of benefit?
And it's funny how "funding research & development for future medications" isn't in your list. What do you think happens to revenue from drug sales? Do you think it gets shoveled into a big room where some CEO rolls around in it and uses $100 bills to light cigars? Money from antidepressant sales might very well fund the cure for Alzheimers or cancer, just like other drug sales have funded antidepressants.
I do think that antidepressants are overprescribed, but the bottom line is that they do help correct chemical imbalances in some people that therapy alone cannot.
It irks me to no end to see people bitching about companies selling a product and making a profit, but ignoring the fact that THIS IS WHAT LEADS TO INNOVATION AND SAVES LIVES. How many medical advances come out of North Korea?