Quote from ftlmatt:

i'll tell u that living with and dealing with add/depression for as long as i can remember, i will take my chances on taking medication that gave me my life back.
i don't bielieve in that deception thing. that is like saying when the tobacco industry lied about nicotine being addictive. any sensible person could have came to their own conclusion that nicotine was addictive..i didn't need anyone to tell me that! it's called common sense and that goes for any other medication. it is up to the consumer to find out for themselves both the negatives and positives of taking medications. those who rely on the drug companies or any other opinion is just looking for someone else to blame for their laziness and not doing their own research. we are not babies and we have access to the internet and a variety of other research tools.

I am not telling you what to do, you can take pills; it is you who will live with whatever that brings. But I am saying there is definate proof of deception, legitamate news stories have popped up recently not only dealing with unpublished clinical trials, but also with one drug rep who was ordered by the drug company head to "sell" Neurontin to docs to treat all sorts of off-label uses. The rep went to the news media after awhile since he was a scientist too and started to worry about the severe side-effects people would get from a drug that shouldn't have been prescribed in the first place....he feared he would end up on the bad end of a lawsuit.

So you don't have to believe in this deception thing, but it does exist. And I really can't speak for all people, but I doubt they are all too "lazy" to look up things. I think usually it is a matter of trust; if your doctor says this will help you, usually you trust him to know what's best. After all, he went to med school. Cigarettes are a bit different in that nobody was telling people they needed cigarettes for any medical condition.

I believe most people listen to their doctors because logically it would seem the best course.....aka "anyone who tries to doctor themselves has a fool for a patient", right?

Modern medicine can be a wonderful thing, but it has also become big-business and has stockholders like everything else.