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On the inertia and the gap between what the research/newest drugs and what is prescribed day to day: it is very real. And there’s tons of reasons for that, ran
by makeitdouble 4y ago
On the inertia and the gap between what the research/newest drugs and what is prescribed day to day: it is very real.
And there’s tons of reasons for that, ranging from:
- doctors that cling to the treatment they know to work (“the devil you know”)
- sheer lack of knowledge (not their speciality so they’re not up to date by a long shot)
- waiting for a few more years to have long term real world data
- pharma companies effectively bribing them by any means so they don’t look elsewhere
- loceng 4y ago- propaganda put out by competing pharma companies to smear newer medications or create distrust of them - pharma companies who spend more to get the lion's share of ad time keep their brand at the forefront of consumers, consumers then ask for those medications and then don't know about alternatives because they've been drowned out - arguably some of most effective drugs have been illegal the past 40+ years as part of the "war on drugs" (did pharma industry help make those illegal?): marijuana, psilocybin/DMT, MDMA, and even cocaine will knock people out of a depression - where it could be taken weekly or less (arguably potentially more addictive than other medications, but SSRIs with severe withdrawal symptom is arguably equivalent to addiction, the aversion to the withdrawal symptoms) - but pharma can't patent any of those, so they can't gain exclusive rights to a brand they advertise to manipulate people to buy or trust their brand over something else (so patented drugs can captured more revenue and have more profit to pay more for ad time to drown out cheaper, more effective competitors). - etc.