Hmmm ...

As you might have gathered I'm a qual researcher anyway, and I have (as it was recently described to me by a former lecturer, tutor, and boss of mine hehe) 'gone to the dark side' in terms of what I do nowadays.

So I am a little out of practice with reading and critiquing some of these things, although I am well familiar with the methodologies etc. Had a lot of drug and alcohol studies to review during thesis

But ... my area is not psychopharmacology really (in terms of efficacy of treatments), so I am probably playing a little bit more devil's advocate than anything else in this thread :>

I know that drug companies often have their own agendas but then I see a lot of GOOD coming out of them too ... the Pharmac heart campaign here in NZ that's absolutely brilliant and about getting medication to those who really really need it ... so maybe Pharmac is a big greedy monster in some ways, but you have to look at the positives to come out too.

I suppose that is why I am not automatically buying in to the idea of advertising etc being all evil ... (no it's not just cos I'm in marketing ... lol).

Sigh. I wish I was less tired and better able to explain myself - lol.