SOCI 2F60 Lecture Notes - Junk Science, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Medicalization
19 Jan 2013
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If come up w/ new drug you need to patent it, and for a certain period of time you won that product and no one else can sell it and you make the money. Eventually they run out and don"t last forever. In 2001, they ran out of patent protection and they did not have an exclusive franchise on it. Thus they came up w/ seraphin which is slightly different for this new disorder. On friendly terms w/ chad and has given them a large amount of money over the years. Thus can see why corporations have an interest in this expansion of labelling. Faced w/ self help experts (on tv or mass media) Experts played a key role in the labelling of attention deficit disorder add. Needed a drug to treat this disorder which is ritalin. It was proscribed almost exclusively for hyperactive and inattentive boys in the classroom.
