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Part of our readiness to swallow these pharmaceutical inventions is because many of us believe we deserve medication for every one of life's problems, says Professor Joan Busfield, a clinical psychologist and sociologist from Essex University
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So if indeed that's "what's many of us believe we deserve" who's to say it wasn't a manufactured "belief" from pharma's advertising creating a market by sheer over stimulation & overplaying their ads, in the same way a song/album gets "promoted" into a gold record by airplay?
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