DIRECT TO CONSUMER PHARMACEUTICAL ADVERTISING
Why Do We Allow Advertising for Addictive Products?
In the decades that America has allowed direct-to-consumer drug ads plus posters and billboards for alcohol and marijuana sales, we have come no closer to resolving our nation’s problems with these substances.
An Overview of Nations, Looking at the Prescription Drug Problem on a Global Scale
Drug addiction in the United States is an expanding problem. While we might not want to admit it, much of what created the addiction epidemic that we face today was the rapid expansion of the pharmaceutical industry, the lack of regulation in that industry, and the mass proliferation of addictive pharmaceuticals (such as opioid painkillers) into the hands of the American people.