Why is there little media mention of the GLP-1 agonist eye risks, negative mental effects, surgical risks and their links to thyroid tumors, pancreatitis, hypoglycemia, kidney failure, cancer and gallbladder harm? What about the drugs' addictiveness when they are stopped? (underreported by a media funded by drug ads)
Selling Disease to Sell Drugs
Like the many drugmakers-funded patient front groups like the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention who now hide their funding behind "foundations," Szalavitz sees "mental illness" everywhere. To monetize recovery, drugmakers have elevated anxiety and depression to "mental illness" and have "dually diagnosed alcoholics and drug addicts with "major depressive disorder" and "bipolar disorder" so they are lifelong Pharma customers. Ka-ching.
Final Ironies
It is a final irony that ubiquitous "everyone-is-mentally-ill" and "everyone-needs-psych-drugs" messages are funded by the corporations and health insurers that most media sources and their reporters say they detest. Are you listening New York Times?
It is also an irony that if RFK had an addiction ("like" Szalavitz--as she says by way of comparison) he has seldom to never spoken of it.
It is sad that crybaby, "poor me" diary excerpts like Szalavitz' have become the new journalism norm. And it is scary that such self-disclosing swill casts Big Pharma and its products as the public's mental health savior.
(Article changed on Dec 25, 2024 at 3:48 PM EST)
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