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Sylvia Caras <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:26:52 -0800
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Amazon: Barber explores the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first 
create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it, and he reveals that 
the increasing pressure Americans are under to medicate themselves 
(direct-to-consumer advertising, fewer nondrug therapeutic options, the 
promise of the quick fix, the blurring of distinction between mental 
illness and everyday problems). Most importantly, he convincingly argues 
that without an industry to promote them, non-pharmaceutical approaches 
that could have the potential to help millions are tragically overlooked 
by a nation that sees drugs as an instant cure for all emotional 
difficulties.


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