Pharmacies want to keep us sick 🙁 is there ANY truth to this?

[TuscanMum]

There’s a lady I know who posts lots of pharmaceutical conspiracies on a regular basis. Things like, they have a vested interest in keeping us sick so as we continue to need their drugs.

The sane part of me says this is rubbish, can’t be allowed, no way.

But a little part of me wonders.🙁

I have a vested interest in this as I’ve an autoimmune disease and keep trying different types of strong medication that haven’t yet worked but Rheumatologist says it’s not cureable and drugs are necessary.

Met a man, just today, who said his wife has lupus but refuses meds and just manages with diet.

I’d be interested to hear what others think or know about this?

I think the thing with medicine is there are a lot of things it controls diabetes, high blood pressure cholesterol and not so many it cures e.g. antibiotics kill bacteria. So the need for on going treatment. I know pharmaceutical companies spend more on researching drugs that will make money so say weight loss tablets are more appealing than curing malaria which is ethically questionable.

I know pharmaceutical companies spend more on researching drugs that will make money so say weight loss tablets are more appealing than curing malaria which is ethically questionable.

They don't spend a lot of money researching malaria drugs because they won't be able to sell the drugs for much money and will therefore not be able to cover the research costs. I don't think that it is ethically questionable for a business or its shareholder to not want to lose money. No other business would be expected to do that. Governments/society need to fund research into treatments for malaria or new antibiotics rather than expected an individual business to fund it.

I’m not especially knowledgable about the specific details but I always remember a pharmacist giving a talk and saying he wished anyone who discovered the cure for HIV or cancer the best of luck finding a pharmaceuti

Good grief, what a depressing thought. But I can believe it.

It's like that horrific individuals Martin Shkeli who purchased a company that manufactured an anti parasitic drug and whacked up the price from $13 to $750 (thank you google).

God knows how you'd control drug prices though.. forcing companies to keep prices low would reduce the speculative R&D needed to find new drugs.

I’m not especially knowledgable about the specific details but I always remember a pharmacist giving a talk and saying he wished anyone who discovered the cure for HIV or cancer the best of luck finding a pharmaceuti

How ignorant. He should know better. There is now a drug prevents people from getting HIV. They obviously would be able to charge a lot more for a cure so why wouldn't they produce it and make a fortune? Many HIV drugs are now off patent and the pharmaceutical companies are making very little money out of them.
As for cancer, as many people have already explained, it is not one disease and there will not be one cure. Some cancers are curable nowadays. Other's will be in the future.

If someone found a cure for any deadly disease. Like, an actual cure.

They could name their price.

A cure for any cancer would be a licence to print money.

A cure for any cancer would be a licence to print money.
Many cancers are curable.
My ex managers wife was one of the first people to be cured of Hodgkinson Disease and was still alive 20 years later and may still be for all i know.
My Childminders grand daughter had leukhemia at 5 , she is now 25 with 2 children
My dad had throat cancer and survived that but died of a heart attack.
My sister had treatment for cervical cancer15 years ago
Sadly a friend recently died but he was inline for a new treatment., sadly he was too far advanced by the time the treatment was suggested
My DM sadly died of a very fast growing cancer , but they still tried to treat it with chemo.

Many cancers are curable.

Exactly. When I was a child, cancer was considered a death sentence as there was little chance of survival. I think about only about 10% of children survived 5 years. Now it is about 90%. Things are very different thanks to drugs that have been produced by pharmaceutical companies.

I think it's rubbish. Humans (and nature tbf) do a good enough job of making ourselves and others sick.

I'm have an incurable cancer and if I had followed the course of the cancer I would have died 3 years ago.

I take a tablet a day and thank God I'm still here to see my children. The pharmacy are keeping me quite well thank you 🙏

People who shit on about "big pharma" keeping us ill are in serious tin foil hat territory

They don't keep us ill. It's more that they pretend their drugs work more effectively than they do. They make more money out of good drugs. They don't need to make us ill, that happens by itself. It's food companies and urban planners largely to blame for the current obesity epidemic (which also causes cancer and other conditions)

Cancer is a sickness of old age , 50% of all cancers in the UK are in over 70s .

They don't keep us ill. It's more that they pretend their drugs work more effectively than they do. They don't keep us ill. It's more that they pretend their drugs work more effectively than they do.

Of course they would like to but others evaluate the drug (e.g. licensing authorities, NICE, doctors, pharmacists) so they don't get very far.