Without making light of anyone’s very real pain, or the very real struggles that they may have faced with issues of depression and thoughts of suicide, I wanted to make note that at least a few people have mentioned the role that modern pharmeceuticals played in the treatment of their condition(s) – albeit the need to make some “adjustments” to those meds from time to time to make them effective and to get the desired result(s).
I was wondering – are these the same meds researched, developed, and sold by those “evil, greedy pharmeceutical companies” under our system of marketplace-driven, free-enterprise healthcare and mostly private insurers?
Yes, I realize that many of these new drugs are very expensive, especially at first, and that this puts them effectively out of reach of many of those who could possibly benefit from them.
But at least they’re out there. They DID get developed, and it wasn’t easy OR cheap. Once the breakthroughs are made, newer and less expensive versions do follow.
Countless generations before now have lived and died in misery without any understanding or hope for relief, and without those very same medications now at our disposal.
Profit is a great motivator. We couldn’t live without it.
