Pharmaceutical Commercials (side effects)

[bdreason]

I always enjoy the Pharmaceutical commercials because of the ridiculous side effects. My personal favorite is "confusion". I mean, there are many levels of confusion, so you need to be a little more specific than that. Am I going to forget who I was supposed to call, or am I going to think I'm a bird, and jump off the roof of my house.

I realize this medicine is meant to fight cancer, but check out the list of side effects, which include death. And at the end of the list he states these aren't all the side effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBUDgqg8OQ0

I draw the line at swollen ankles!




I saw a commercial for a pill the other day that was designed to cure the side effect of another medicine. Who wants to bet the same company makes both pills? I saw another commercial for a pill to help treat depression... and one of the side effects was depression.

[UK2K]

So, sort of related question but maybe can someone help me out because I've always wondered...

Why are all the drug commercials scenes of happy people, while the voice over person literally talks for two minutes about how to use, and when to use, and side effects, and warnings...

Are they required to be like that? It seems every medicine commercial is the same, and they all follow this similar pattern.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMSv0GtzCDk

[fiddy]

reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyTVyQuioDA or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqPRafCg9SE

[gigantes]

...I saw a commercial for a pill the other day that was designed to cure the side effect of another medicine. Who wants to bet the same company makes both pills? I saw another commercial for a pill to help treat depression... and one of the side effects was depression.
actually that's extremely common in allopathic medicine, especially for serious / chronic ailments. i recall hearing about people taking as many as 3-4 meds, all because the original one caused a significant side effect. then you add in the chain reaction effect.

i don't think big pharma is up to a conspiracy because they're particularly trying to make their own line of drugs co-dependent. the 'conspiracy' is more about economic self interest in the form of protecting their products and industry as a whole. lobbies and proprietary drugs are two examples. preventing the supplement / natural remedies market from fully developing is maybe another.


re: anti-depressants,
just as the workings of the brain is still a rather mysterious process, the way mood meds work is still not fully understood. we know there's a reuptake inhibitor / augmenting / adjustment process going on with some of the five primary neurotransmitters, but we never know for sure how that's going to affect a given individual. sometimes the drug just doesn't work, needs help, causes various side effects, or yes, induces suicidal thoughts. but i think taking a person to a different mental place can always be unpredictable, just as with recreational drugs. the whole thing is far more complicated than a simple happy / not happy switch that a drug is supposed to throw.

to be fair, suicide incidence is statistically very low with modern mood meds from what i've read. big pharma just has to cover their assets by saying so.

[Annyong!]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x44iru7

[Nanners]

every drug commercial has that shot where the guy who cant get it up and his wife are sitting next to each other in 2 separate bath tubs on their deck... who the **** actually has 2 bathtubs on their back patio?

these commercials should be illegal.

[dude77]

:oldlol: reminds me of the commercials talking about gambling side effects .. looked it up .. it's abilify .. this is a lawyer commercial calling out patients

lol@if you've lost 50,000 gambling ..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W55flFuUfp4