<http://politics.guardian.co.uk/publicservices/story/0,11032,1451337,00.html>
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The power of Britain's multi-billion-pound drugs industry has turned
this country into an over-medicalised society that believes in a pill
for every ill, a Commons inquiry will claim this week.
The report will say that the billions of pounds poured into
researching and promoting new drugs have fuelled an over-emphasis on
medicinal cures at the expense of cheaper and better therapies, or
simple prevention.
The MPs heard evidence of 'disease-mongering' drugs firms effectively
inventing diseases for which they could then sell treatments, with
relatively normal behaviour - from mild depression to low female sex
drive - re-labelled as conditions for which drugs were supposedly
necessary.
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