> agenda-driven More like, profit-driven. If we want to get better, we have to stop allowing a class of society to profit from the sickness. Pharmaceutical c

> agenda-driven More like, profit-driven. If we want to get better, we have to stop allowing a class of society to profit from the sickness. Pharmaceutical companies exist not to make anyones lives better - they exist to generate profit. I'm highly suspicious of the drug-taking culture, as it attempts to justify the enslavement of the individual by way of supplanting their supposed mental-health problems with a very profitable subscription to a proprietary/patented/owned drug formula. I think it is very sad to read this HN article and listen to all the stories of folks who think they are improving their lives with this chemical dependency, and it is really tragic that drug-taking is such a cultural phenomenon that anyone who dares to rise above the field and say "hey, maybe we don't need to do this - maybe there is another way" gets cut down to serve as fodder for the rest of the poppies. Its quite possible that we've all been swindled by our own hubris. Its happened before. The Romans had their lead pipes, the Victorians their laudanum, and we - "modern" society - have our Prozac and Zoloft. Dare to mention alternative means of lifting oneself out of the mire, and you will incur a great deal of wrath - such is the investment in the propaganda from the multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical industry in capturing the subject and making sure nobody dares think otherwise to their drug-delivery supply chains...