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The drug treatment of depression is one of the Greatest fallacies in the history of medicine.

It is estimated that 28 million Americans now take prescribed (doctor-controlled) anti-depressant medications. Production of these drugs has consequently become a huge business, with "global sales estimated at $6 billion a year and rising." Prozac sales alone amounted to more than $1.7 billion in 1999 - a third of the Eli Lilly and Company's total business - while prescriptions for its major current competitors, Zoloft and Paxil, also continue to rise rapidly. Despite the side-effects experienced by a quarter of Prozac users, Lilly recently spent $15 million to advertise the drug directly to the public - to increase patients' demand for it from their physicians. And at a time that our churches, moral guides to the nation, face many grave financial problems, the major backer of the Public Broadcasting System's "Religion and Ethics Newsweekly" is the Lilly Foundation. By Nathaniel S. Lehrman, MD Aug 15, 2002 More at http://www.redflagsweekly.com/Thursday_report/2002_august15.html

Blockbuster Depression: Drug Deals for Drug Makers
On July 14th, 2002, in an unprecedented alchemy of corporate drug deals synthesized behind closed doors, a $60 billion transaction allowed Pfizer Inc. to acquire Pharmacia Corporation, creating the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. With anticipated annual revenues of $48 billion, the newly concocted Pfizer-Pharmacia mega-company will have unsurpassed global dominance on some of the most lucrative pharmaceutical drugs available on the market. The potential side-effects of the merger on consumers seems to have gone unnoticed.
By Wrye Sententia July 22, 2002
More at: http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/news/pfizer_pharmacia_merger.htm