Home  Medical Use Law & Legislation Legislation Proposed to Ban Drug Advertising in the U.S.
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Legislation Proposed to Ban Drug Advertising in the U.S. |
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Some view the U.S. as out of step with the rest of the world in allowing prescription drugs to be advertised to consumers. The U.S. and New Zealand actually are the only industrialized nations to allow direct-to-consumer advertising for pharmaceutical medicines, and New Zealand is already mulling a ban.
Far from helping us be more healthy, the ads actually allow drug makers to increase sales of often useless and dangerous drugs and as a result, pharmaceutical industry has boomed while the health of Americans is in a deplorable state. A coalition is being built to support the legislation, which calls for a stop to public drug advertising.
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Norml administrator note: 37 out of 204 pages of a 2006 issue of "Health" magazine, were dedicated to pharmaceutical drug ads. |
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