Stephen King's Article on Prescription drugs

In all honesty i think that Stephen King has a major point. It's sad to me that
drug companies spend more time worrying about marketing than they do about
the side effects of their medications and how to make them any better. Nowadays,
many companies have no problem being crooked, backward, two-faced, or anything
you'd like to call it. As long as they make bank on their products, they dont care about
what it does to the consumers, as long as it goes unnoticed.
What bothers me is that people who watch these ads start turning into
hypochondriacs, assuming that they have that exact disorder, or illness,
and need that medication. Especially if it's a "quick fix" like Stephen King mentioned.
As Americans, our tolerance for pain and suffering has gone down to pretty much nothing.
I think that if anything, the Federal Government should start monitoring what these drug companies put in their medications a bit more closely.
What i dont understand is how they put some of these chemicals into these
drugs without considering the long term consequences. They're trying to get
rid of herbal remedies, when herbal remedies are so much better for you than
the lab-created crap they put in their pills. I think that drug companies are just like
oil companies, they'll stop at nothing to get as much money as they can, even if it means
screwing over all Americans in the process.