Emphasis on Lifestyle Drugs

The New York Times recently reported that the new drugs the pharmaceutical companies are producing are certainly helping to relieve suffering and preventing premature death, but some of the hottest preparations, the ones that pharmaceutical companies "can't seem to roll...out fast enough," have nothing to do with matters of life and death. These so-called lifestyle drugs treat toe fungus, obesity, baldness, face wrinkles and impotence. The market for such drugs is worth billions of dollars a year, and is one of the fastest-growing product lines in the industry.

Lack of Corporate Social Responsibility


Corporate social responsibility, CSR, refers to the dedication of businesses to the interests of its community, customers and society at large. Rather than focus on curing life threatening diseases that would support the needs of these broader stakeholders, global pharmaceutical companies are only focused on satisfying their shareholders. Researching and producing more “lifestyle drugs” is far more profitable to their bottom-line.

According to the Nation, almost three times as many people, most of them in tropical countries of the Third World, die of preventable, curable diseases as die of AIDS. They continue to die because the drugs to treat their illnesses are nonexistent or are so outdated that they are not effective any longer.

This is a direct result of pharmaceutical companies moving away from developing better drugs to treat life-threatening diseases and focusing their attention on profit-making Lifestyle drugs.

Health is a human right


Seeger Weiss believes health is a human right and that more pharmaceutical companies should be held accountable for doing what is best for patients rather than their shareholders bank accounts.

With their preoccupation in finding the next Lifestyle drug blockbuster to ensure a steady stream of profits, human health is at risk. The stance taken by the pharmaceutical companies against providing affordable treatment of AIDS shows they currently value wealth over health.

Make sure your voice is heard. If you have suffered irreversible harm from a drug injury, contact Seeger Weiss for counsel.

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