- 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 sh

- 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.