OpEdNews - Page 3 of Article: Who Killed Japanese Culture?

"They ran a very intense campaign about mild depression where a beautiful young lady comes out all smiles and says, 'I went to a doctor and now I'm happy.' You know, depression is not that easy. And if it is that easy, it might not be depression."

Between 1998 and 2003, writes Kathryn Schulz, sales of antidepressants in Japan quintupled.[4] GlaxoSmithKline saw its sales of Paxil increase from $108 million in 2001 to $298 million in 2003. According to the company, during one seven-month ad campaign it ran last year, 110,000 people in a population of 127 million consulted their doctors about depression.

It's quite clear, to me anyhow, to see how Japan has become infested with this plague, the pharma plague. They just could not leave them alone could they? They had to breakdown the cultural beliefs and throw a rather large spanner into the nation of courteousness.

On the 28th June, 2007, Bloomberg ran with the headline, 'Japan Says Suicidal Cases Rise Among Paxil Users' - The power of foresight huh?

GlaxoSmithKline, continue to push Paxil in Japan. The current Paxil NCT00812812 trial is evidence of that.

Pharma won't be happy with Japan, they will want more. If life elsewhere really does exist then I really fear for our alien friends looking down on us from the Universe. If companies like Glaxo and Solvay can spoil the lifestyles of the Japanese they will probably want to fund NASA's SETI program[5] just so they can get the first crack at whatever or whomever NASA may find.

The only "soul with a cold" is that of pharmaceutical companies and marketing teams...assuming they have a soul?

Bob Fiddaman

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[1] IMS Health, a company that tracks global health care and pharmaceutical information.
[2]http://www.solvaypress.com/pressreleases/0,,950-2-0,00.htm
[3]Did Antidepressants Depress Japan? [NYT]
[4] IMS Health, a company that tracks global health care and pharmaceutical information.
[5] Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelliegence

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