"Many doctors are being paid in their offices to do research for the pharmaceutical industries as well," Dr Block told he panel.
"They also give money to different groups who go out and promote the use of these drugs for our children," she noted.
"So the pharmaceutical companies have a tremendous influence on our society and especially on physicians," she said.
This congressional committee clearly knew the score in 2002 and yet here we are four years later getting ready to play the same broken record at more government hearings.
And while doctors continue to claim the increase in cases of ADHD is due to "better diagnoses," it seems rather odd that the only change in treatment for the disorder has been the ever-rising number of new drugs competing for the lucrative market.
Evelyn Pringle
evelyn.pringle@sbcglobal.net
(Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent Media TV and an investigative journalist focused on exposing corruption in government)
"They also give money to different groups who go out and promote the use of these drugs for our children," she noted.
"So the pharmaceutical companies have a tremendous influence on our society and especially on physicians," she said.
This congressional committee clearly knew the score in 2002 and yet here we are four years later getting ready to play the same broken record at more government hearings.
Evelyn Pringle
evelyn.pringle@sbcglobal.net
(Evelyn Pringle is a columnist for Independent Media TV and an investigative journalist focused on exposing corruption in government)
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