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Big Pharma Wants to Get its Hands on Free Addiction Treatment


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Twelve Step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Cocaine Anonymous are free, self-supporting and do not advertise so many do not know about them and their success rate. (Disclosure: members of my own family have benefited from them.) Such programs promote no drugs and use no psychiatric or psychology experts, relying instead on peer-to-peer healing.

But drugmakers and insurance companies are increasingly trying to monetize such groups.

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Martha Rosenberg is an award-winning investigative public health reporter who covers the food, drug and gun industries. Her first book, Born With A Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp The Public Health, is distributed by (more...)
 

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Depression, once a transient and self-limiting condition, has been elevated by drugmakers to "major depressive disorder." For this lifelong, chronic and lucrative condition--resting on the now disproved chemical imbalance theory--patients can remain on drugs like SSRIs for decades. Almost a quarter of US women over 60 are now on such pills according to the CDC!

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