Director digs into pharmaceutical industry in 'Love and Other Drugs'
20.11.10
Ed Zwick doesn't want to seem like a pill, but he's on a rant against the pharmaceutical industry in his latest movie, “Love and Other Drugs.”
On the surface, it's your typical romantic-comedy, much like Zwick's 1986 directorial debut, “About Last Night.” But look beneath the oft-bared skin of stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway and you'll see some of the naked truths about the pharmaceutical industry.
Zwick, a Harvard grad, said he sensed a seismic shift in our culture in late 1990s, when TV ads made certain drugs household names.
“People who had never heard the name of any drug could now name 10; and they would tell their doctors which ones to prescribe,” said Zwick during a trip to Cambridge to promote the film. “Suddenly, what had been the province of doctors, became the province of consumers, creating a culture that's now much more dependent on pharmaceuticals.”
The film, culled from Jamie Reidy's memoir, “Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman,” centers its attention on Pfizer, where Reidy made a bundle by promising doctors copious amounts of free Viagra if they bought the company's other products, most notably, the anti-depressant Zoloft. But Zwick insists that the use of payola is common throughout the industry, which, like the stock market, has little or no government regulation.
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Feb 23, 2007 by steve1oh | Posted in Philippines
I noticed last time I was there many people getting drugs over-the-counter at places like the mall pharmacies. Can I just go to a pharmacy there and ask for viagra and act like a dumb American?
Some tell me that they will sell it to me maybe at a higher price.
Thanks
Go to any doctor. For a low price, he will fill out a prescription for you, which you can then take to the drug store.
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yeah you can do over the counter business even in malls but i guess for viagra you'll need a prescription from a doctor for it.
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hi all i am a final year psychology and pharmacology student and i am looking into buying perscription drugs on the internet.. i have seen so many questions posted on yahoo answers asking people if they knew where to buy drugs such as valium and viagra etc etc and have also seen a few from people that say they have in fact purchased drung off line. i would like to know if any one here has brought drugs off line and wat the effects were and if they feel that the drugs were the real deal so to speak.. thanks for reading this any help would be much appritiated. xxxx
I find it very hard to believe that being a student of psychology and pharmacology would even post a question of this type.
You know what a controlled substancs is and to obtain it you need a doctors prescription, by receiving it any other way is illegal and you could be prosicuted.
You sure you aren't looking to push drugs,or hook up with a dealer.
iggy465 | Nov 14, 2008
how is the best way to deal with people who force their ways on you?
Aug 07, 2007 by boris t | Posted in Religion & Spirituality
this is complicated, so its in 3 parts.
1.) getting into others business, and forcing your ways on them. Ex: Giving a students detention on an afternoon a student had planned out a date, because the teacher didn't think that they were a good couple.
A persons guidance counselor telling the school about one of his/her students being involved in prostitution, because the counselor felt the school had the right to know. Thats one thing i think is wrong.
2.) not getting involved with something your agianst. ex. Refusing a job as a secretary at an assisted suicide center. refusing to track a guy/girl your friend has their eyes on. Or refusing to buy someone beer.
3.) if you are in a job, volunteer service, or club where you are required to do thing that you are agianst. ex. A mailman refuses to deliver a letter to someone from another, because they know the sender and the reciever are enemies. a doctor refuses to prescribe viagra to gays. a waiter refusing a fat person a burger.
the people who mentioned about prostitution being illegal, what I meant to say is that if the guidance counselor told the school about a recovering prostitute, and i would have to say cops arent the best answer, have them seek counseling
First, if you are American living in the United States, people can not force you to follow their ways; they can attempt to do so, but you can resist. If you are treated in ways which you think are unfair, you have the recourse to question them or, if adolescent, to appeal to a higher authority, even to take them to court if you view their behavior toward you as illegal or unethical. The case you cite of the mail person definitely involves a serious illegality if proven. If a doctor refuses to prescribe Viagra, there are other doctors who will prescribe it to someone who is gay. If you belong to an organization which requires you to perform acts which you can not in good conscious do, then you either resign from the club or refuse to engage in the questionable activity. Unless someone has a gun to your head, you are the one who is responsible for yourself, and there are countless methods of circumventing whatever you do not want to do!
Lynci | Aug 07, 2007
Why do Yahoo! Groups discourage a new, relevant open source offering?
Dec 10, 2006 by C Neg | Posted in Yahoo!7 Groups
I'm trying to promote a new open source offering- a soapmaking wiki that is like wikipedia- and I post to the group. My message is of the 'please contribute your time and knowledge to the site' nature.
Now, the moderators take it as an ad and won't post it. It IS an ad but it IS non-commercial and it serves only to help their group or business- the site provides a means of cross-promotion with a company and organization directory. Also, people are on those Yahoo groups TO list their services, in other words, commercialism and talk are inherently associated in this domain. Cottage businesses where ladies exchange and talk about recipes and where to buy cheap materials. That being said, it's as if my offering is rejected on the basis that 'I don't know you', or that I am a male. I'm facing the girls club and I'm just an outsider.
Am I totally off mark? I don't think my invitation should be lumped in the same category with viagra and hot teen action.
http://saponaceo.us
I think all of these are good answers, despite the thumbs down. Thank you for taking the time to answer, folks :)
Ads are ad's. Rules are rules. A company the size of yahoo has to apply the rule equally to all for the benefit of all. There is no discrimination.
John L | Dec 10, 2006
What do liberals think of my "free market" healthcare plan?
Mar 23, 2010 by YES WE CAN! | Posted in Politics
Liberals keep complaining that Republicans don't have a plan for reforming health care in America. I have a plan!
It's a one-page bill creating a free market in health insurance. Let's all pause here for a moment so liberals can Google the term "free market."
Nearly every problem with health care in this country -- apart from trial lawyers and out-of-date magazines in doctors' waiting rooms -- would be solved by my plan.
In the first sentence, Congress will amend the McCarran-Ferguson Act to allow interstate competition in health insurance.
We can't have a free market in health insurance until Congress eliminates the antitrust exemption protecting health insurance companies from competition. If Democrats really wanted to punish insurance companies, which they manifestly do not, they'd make insurers compete.
The very next sentence of my bill provides that the exclusive regulator of insurance companies will be the state where the company's home office is. Every insurance company in the country would incorporate in the state with the fewest government mandates, just as most corporations are based in Delaware today.
That's the only way to bypass idiotic state mandates, requiring all insurance plans offered in the state to cover, for example, the Zone Diet, sex-change operations, and whatever it is that poor Heidi Montag has done to herself this week.
President Obama says we need national health care because Natoma Canfield of Ohio had to drop her insurance when she couldn't afford the $6,700 premiums, and now she's got cancer.
Much as I admire Obama's use of terminally ill human beings as political props, let me point out here that perhaps Natoma could have afforded insurance had she not been required by Ohio's state insurance mandates to purchase a plan that covers infertility treatments and unlimited ob/gyn visits, among other things.
It sounds like Natoma could have used a plan that covered only the basics -- you know, things like cancer.
The third sentence of my bill would prohibit the federal government from regulating insurance companies, except for normal laws and regulations that apply to all companies.
Freed from onerous state and federal mandates turning insurance companies into public utilities, insurers would be allowed to offer a whole smorgasbord of insurance plans, finally giving consumers a choice.
Instead of Harry Reid deciding whether your insurance plan covers Viagra, this decision would be made by you, the consumer. (I apologize for using the terms "Harry Reid" and "Viagra" in the same sentence. I promise that won't happen again.)
Instead of insurance companies jumping to the tune of politicians bought by health-care lobbyists, they would jump to the tune of hundreds of millions of Americans buying health insurance on the free market.
Hypochondriac liberals could still buy the aromatherapy plan and normal people would be able to buy plans that only cover things like major illness, accidents and disease. (Again -- things like Natoma Canfield's cancer.)
This would, in effect, transform medical insurance into ... a form of insurance!
My bill will solve nearly every problem allegedly addressed by ObamaCare -- and mine entails zero cost to the taxpayer. Indeed, a free market in health insurance would produce major tax savings as layers of government bureaucrats, unnecessary to medical service in America, get fired.
For example, in a free market, the government wouldn't need to prohibit insurance companies from excluding "pre-existing conditions."
Of course, an insurance company has to be able to refuse new customers with "pre-existing conditions." Otherwise, everyone would just wait to get sick to buy insurance. It's the same reason you can't buy fire insurance on a house that's already on fire.
That isn't an "insurance company"; it's what's known as a "Christian charity."
What Democrats are insinuating when they denounce exclusions of "pre-existing conditions" is an insurance company using the "pre-existing condition" ruse to deny coverage to a current policy holder -- someone who's been paying into the plan, year after year.
Any insurance company operating in the free market that pulled that trick wouldn't stay in business long.
If hotels were as heavily regulated as health insurance is, right now I'd be explaining to you why the government doesn't need to mandate that hotels offer rooms with beds. If they didn't, they'd go out of business.
I'm sure people who lived in the old Soviet Union thought it was crazy to leave groceries to the free market. ("But what if they don't stock the food we want?")
The market is a more powerful enforcement mechanism than indolent government bureaucrats. If you don't believe me, ask Toyota about six months from now.
Right now, insurance companies are protected by government regulations from having to honor their contracts. Violating contracts isn't so easy when co
Your plan is very bad and is detrimental to consumers. Insurance companies would love it though.
The insurance companies want to be able to operate like the credit card companies and have their domiciles in states with few regulations. That would enable them to sell to individuals in states with high regulatory standards. That is how credit card companies are currently able to bypass state usury laws and charge consumers outrageous interest rates. Insurance companies would operate similarly and engage in “a race to the bottom” i.e., to operate out of a state with the most minimal consumer protections. That does not help anyone, except the insurance companies.
Most people would not realize how defective their coverage was until they become ill or injured. That is one reason why so many people who currently file bankruptcy due to medical bills are actually people who have health insurance.
In order for selling across state lines to work decently, the federal government would have to institute strict minimum standards of coverage in order to protect the insured. The new legislation addresses this issue.
In addition, I find it interesting that conservatives who are always babbling on and on about state’s rights would support such suggestions which clearly strike down the states’ authority to set minimum standards for the coverage protection of their own residents.
Also, your argument concerning preexisting conditions does not make sense. Of course the insurance companies don't want to cover such people because they anticipate paying out a lot of money in claims. The individual mandate is included in the new legislation in order to try to offset the insurance costs by including more people who tend to be younger and healthier.
You're also confusing the preexisting condition situation with insurance companies dropping insured people after they become ill. They do it all the time. That is well documented. They stay in business, so I don't know what you're talking about. The new legislation addresses that situation also.
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