Yes, they are.

People are being prescribed through TV ads among other sources. This is tantamount to drug-
pushing.

An addiction consists of not being able to stop doing something. It means something you have
to continue doing even if you know it to be bad. A drug addiction has to do with having to take
a drug whatever happens however happens.

In some cases, will power is not enough to cease doing that something.

The principle under which the “drug-pusher” “pushes” drugs is the same as the supermarket
samples. In the case of the supermarket sell, there is a beautiful mini-skirted long-legged girl
offering free samples. People go there and eat, and decide if the product is good or not, and
then buy it or reject it.

The difference is that, in the case of the pharmaceutical companies, the free samples are given
to doctors.

Then the advertisers do their part, commercials make “such and such” drug known, which then
the patient, becoming a consumer, demands to be fed with.

Incredibly, doctors comply.

You might regard it as impossible, but in the case of drugs, the addiction is something that
entails PUNISHMENT. It is not a compulsion to gamble or to race cars, which might be for fun,
and for some adrenaline rush.

In the case of pharmaceuticals, you may feel punished by your own body for not continuing
taking them. You realize that they are poisonous in such extreme cases, but still you have the
compulsion of going on feeding them into your body.

How is this punishment done?

By the “side-effects” or “adverse reactions”. People, in the long term, discover that if they stop
taking such and such drug, the punishment might be terrible. The just HAVE to go on taking the
drug. Many times, the drug produces the effects that says it “cures” or worsens the condition.
This seems to be the case of Tamiflu which has been used as a “vaccine” (when it is not a
vaccine), creating more problems than solving them.

This is especially true in the case of Psychiatric Drugs Adverse Reactions, which are terrible.

Some medicines and all psychiatric drugs work as retard poisons punishing the consumer if
fails to take them. They are not different from street and illegal drugs.

These are facts.

The point is what advertising is there to do.

Advertising, since immemorial times, has as its main objective to sell. This obvious target is
sometimes forgotten by the spectator, who thinks, in many occasions, that ads are there to
entertain him.

No, they are not.

Ads are there to sell.

What are the techniques to sell? Just observe them. The expression itself, “watching TV” is
misleading, for you are not “watching” TV, you are passively receiving the data, not the
information. Data becomes information when it is evaluated by the spectator, and in many
occasions, people do not evaluate what they are receiving from the TV set; they are, for all
practical effects, being programmed. Such data is fed into your mind for you to buy that
something, whatever you see in the commercial. The same principle can be observed, when
listening to the radio, or in the street or wherever you see any ads.

There is some hypnosis involved in this.

This is as well planned and executed as has been done for years by tobacco companies.

With the difference that American people are so numbed now that they do not care about the
warnings.

Commercials are carefully planned by great teams of people to sell you things. In the case of
the pharmaceutical companies, they work hard to make you believe that “such and such” drug
or new drug will “cure” such and such illness. Amazingly, in the US, what we could call, “TV
drug-prescription” is legal, ads recommend taking “such and such” for “such and such”
symptom or sign. The medical doctor is then substituted by the ad and also, since s/he is many
times co-opted by the pharmaceutical company, the physician just prescribes the new drug or
the TV ad drug without any further analysis.

From this point of view, “TV drug-prescription” equals “drug-pushing”. Drug commercials push
drug addiction by pushing drugs exactly as it is done in the street by drug-pushers. The
difference is what it is invested in ads, for drug-pushers do it by samples and then muscle to
collect. Pharmaceutical companies buy doctors, buy TV time and push the drugs.

That’s the only difference.

See,

http://www.april.org.uk/main/index.php?uid=269&rand=0.87494000%201267802994

and

http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Advertising-Man-David-
Ogilvy/dp/1904915019/ref=pd_sim_b_1