Host, Larry Golbom of PAR Radio, has it out for big pharma who market addictive narcotic drugs to America. In fact, anyone who has watched the destruction addiction has had on their families, feel the same. Read OxyContin and Purdue Pharma – Diabolical Beyond Comprehension The genesis is what Larry Golbom calls the marketing of pain as a disease, which has been stunningly epidemic in his home state of Florida. Not long ago, pain was treated as an underlying symptom of a disease and the real disease was addressed. What we have now is pain as the most over treated “contrived” disease in medical history and addiction as one of the most untreated “denied” of diseases. For insight into the making of this phenomena, read this 2001 New York Times piece Pain, The Disease.
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August 22, 2012 at 8:59 am
Robin Martin
This is a very astute observation- treating pain rather than the reason for the pain is the pretty much the definition allopathic medicine and is true of all areas of health care. It is also “cheaper” than diagnostic tests and/or physical therapies. And when big pharm has such influence, why would we expect different?