[e-drug] Scores of unessential drugs - the main game (8)

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E-DRUG: Scores of unessential drugs - the main game (8)
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{Do look at the video link - related to unessential registered drugs but also about disease mongering. Thanks Antonio. BS)

Dear Colleagues,
In regard with the mail of professor Don Light, I would like to highlight
the importance to be able to spread these concepts to the general public
and in an easy way. I think it's the only way we have to be able to change
these situations.

In this regard, I´d share with you the experience of a group of students in
the 3rd course of High School in Spain, winners of the second prize of the
first festival of short films on polypharmacy and health,
"The Encephalowhasapathy" (http://youtu.be/aAroRssruTQ).
I think that summarize and express very well the whole series of concepts.

--
Antonio Villafaina Barroso
Pharm. PhD.
Specialist in Social Intervention.
Primary Care Pharmacist.
Spain
Antonio Villafaina Barroso <antonio.villafaina@gmail.com>

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E-DRUG: Scores of unessential drugs - the main game (9)
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[Referring to the video mentioned by Antonio Villafaina Barroso in (8)]

Very creative video skit. A more documented overview for general readers of how diseases are proliferated and then treated with medicines of doubtful benefit is THE RISKS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Columbia University Press 2010).

Don Light

Resident Fellow, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Professor, Rowan University-SOM
Visiting Researcher, Princeton University
"Donald W. Light Jr." <dlight@Princeton.EDU>