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Still find it weird you guys have adverts on tv for medication.
You mean prescription medication? I saw in Europe they still have tons of advertisements for OTC medication and a lot of them are snake oil.
Prescription yes. OTC is more lax but (from what I have seen though of course could be wrong) still more tightly controlled than in the USA.
There are radio ads too. Every single one is either "buy a car", "You have low-T and need to come get shots to be a Real Man™", or "Buy these boner pills for your sad limp dick"
I went to a hotel and watched cable recently and it's, no joke, 85%+ drug commercials. Just endless ads with disgusting side effects read over happy images.
There's basically two side effect profiles:
It makes you fat, sleepy, confused, constipated / diarrhea / both, and your genitals stop working, but possibly in a different way than your usual everyday hell so maybe it'll be a little better?
It only has one side effect that only happens 0.00001% of the time: instant horrifyingly painful death.
Either way, sales are going to top 6.8 billion trillion dollars next year, among infants alone
Even living in the US (but being on Lemmy and therefore knowing computers and hating advertising) getting stuck watching cable TV at a relative's house can be a real "boring dystopia" experience.
It can be genuinely disturbing when you realize the majority of the ads you've seen were for ONLY medication and gambling.
It's fucking wild that seeing a car commercial is refreshing in that it's just an actual product.
Apparently car commercials aren't even really meant to sell cars. Their main purpose is to make people feel good about the car they just bought (and are making enormous monthly payments on) so that they buy the same make of car next time.
This statement is not remotely true
We really need to find our way back to win on sunday sell on monday.
Who do you even advertise to in the UK if you want to sell your new med? 🤔 Is there like a specific person sitting in the NHS whose job it is to scout for new drugs?
You just rock up and say, "I need something for this" and they give it to you. Otherwise a doctor prescribes it. And it's cheap.
Companies will advertise approved drugs to medical boards to be distributed down to doctors. So medical professionals decide what the best options are. There's no taking drugs just because it was on TV.
Considering Americans lag behind the developed world in life expectancy and general health, I think it's safe to say the drug industry is only there to make money and it certainly causes harm, ironically.
Hey now, we do spend twice as much per capita on health care as the rest of the developed world.
Well yes but I meant if you are a pharma company and want the NHS to cinsider your new med
https://sps.nhs.uk/articles/procurement-of-medicines-and-services-for-nhs-secondary-care/
And more importantly
https://www.nice.org.uk/implementing-nice-guidance/medicines-and-prescribing
TLDR: you got to prove your medication actually works (rather than just having a catchy jingle) and it need to offer 'value for money' (this is where politics gets involved)
You have a lobbying meeting with people from various NHS trusts, and advertise directly to them one-to-one, then things go into further tests/trials and may be chosen as one of the solutions/options to a particular ailment.
You can then pay some sort of additional bribe/special offer directly to doctors to be the preferred option for that particular ailment.