My friend who is a psychiatrist just told me they got an email from a big pharma group that there will be shortages on medications coming.
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There's a shortage on Adderall that's been going on. He also said they recently got an email that benzodiazepines (pills people take for anxiety) is coming next. He said he is starting to have his patients ween off the them because there can be horrible withdrawals with those drugs, you can even die if you stop cold turkey, just like alcohol. I was asking what is going on and he didn't know but he thinks there will be shortages coming on other medications too.
Don't know what is going on behind the scenes with big pharma but I would start preparing to be without a medication if you take any... horde up some just in case or ween off drugs that have withdrawal symptoms if you can. The precipice is coming and it won't be fun.
And lastly.... the money involved. A log time ago my wife had grieving problems overcoming her sister's premature death. The death was caused by the deleterious congenital adverse effects from yet another 'marvel' drug from the pharmaceutical industry during her mother's pregnancy. It was touted as being "safe". After an abundant number of miscarriages and birth defects started to appear, it was pulled from the public market. They found it caused harm to the fetus. Such is the way with Big Pharma.
Anyway, my wife was seeing a psychiatrist at Harvard on a lengthy basis. The visits became a 'pay-for-a-friend' episode for revealing her grief. To me, this was taking advantage of a client because there is an addiction to this type of thing, especially when it is based on emotion. Emotion is to always be contained by cognitive, rational thought. Grieving has its place, but during this time, it is letting go and moving on to another chapter in life. I knew someone that believed one month of grieving was a biblical precept and he practiced that. When personal cognitive and rational thought is hijacked by the therapist, there becomes a dependency. I think it's wrong to string a vulnerable person along, when if anything, the immediate remedy is to get the person to enforce their own cognitive and rational self to overcome such grief. I was able to break that rather corrupt dependency that the psychiatrist entrapped her in.