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18 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 25 Mar \ on: Xanax: The Greatest Trick the Pharma Devil Ever Pulled (WSJ, Ramachandran/McKay) HealthAndFitness
There's really a lot to discuss. It'll be easy to blame Big Pharma, and their conduct has much to criticize... but I also wonder how many people Xanax has helped. I would like to ask why do doctors tend to overprescribe medication and don't emphasize enough lifestyle change?
- Is there deficiency in how they are trained? (Pharma captured med schools & research?)
- Is it because they are overworked and don't have the time to think about patients holistically?
- Is it because this is what patients want? (Doctor tells patient to change lifestyle, patient asks for drug)
- Is it because some doctors are literally paid shills? (Quite the possibility)
Probably all of the above. But mostly because many doctors are overworked and it is the easy way out for both. For the patient because he doesn't have to change his lifestyle, for the doctor because the patient shuts up and leaves, because: hey, if the doctor says so it must be right. Moreover, pharma companies probably sugarcoated the addictive potential (as was the case with oxycontin)
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Yep... so many factors just push in the directions of drugs over lifestyle change.
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