NFRC: what's with all the drug ads in magazines now?!! 21 pages in my Cooking Light mag :(

I think it is that LOTS of "older folks" (like me) are the ones reading the magazines. . .

I cannot say when I last saw my 20-something kids read hard copy, except for books . . . All those young'ns are missing out.

Those drug companies are aiming for their market and their market are those of use still reading magazines.

 
Makes me wonder what is exactly that is going on? Many drug companies are not doing well

I have two prescriptions that I take, usually my druggist has to source at two different places and I get the same pill but from two different companies. It frustrates him but he makes no comment. Plus with the states allowing marijuana to be grown now, there are more drugs out on the streets than ever before.. Honey labs are all over the place. Just in the past year, our city has had four explosions....in decent neighborhoods. We live in a nice area, and today my neighbor smelled marijuana..says her neighbor across the street is growing in his backyard. Drugs are all over the place and bad ones coming out of big pharma too.

 
Not at all sure drug companies are in any trouble-

your statement "usually my druggist has to source at two different places and I get the same pill but from two different companies" indicates these are generic drugs.
The advertisement drugs are the ones proprietary to the drug companies. Big competition for statins, for example, with little to show any difference between them.

 
I think you are right on with that. Just said to dh recently that you can tell who watches

TV news because most of the ads were for drugs aimed at older people

 
The FDA will not allow an Rx TV commercial w/o having other options for a consumer to view the details in print.

 
In other words, for every commercial, there is a corresponding direct to patient drug piece.

The commercials usually say, for more info check out "xyz". it in hard copy.

 
It may be a "requirement" but it is still mass marketing to the public--"ask

your doctor for X".

 
and don't the doctors just love it when a patient asks for specific medication----not! who's the dr

 
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