The Political Economy of Drugs

Of all the affairs of the nation, one would think that public health should be divorced from the distorting interference of politics. Alas, this is not the case as former Editor in Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine makes clear in her recent article "The Truth About the Drug Companies". The article focuses more on the nasty bussiness practices which pharmaceutical companies engage, but its relevence to psychiatry is all to clear. If these companies will do anything to make a buck , then it is no wonder why they are capable of passing bad drugs onto consumers without blinking an eye.