Advertising drugs isn 't entirely a positive thing . Not everyone needs drugs or wants them . Not to mention the advertisement may not hit the target audience it needs to hit . If an ad is shown several times in a brief amount of time , the repeated advertisement will annoy people or pressure them to buy it . Some drugs can hurt people more than help them but the patient doesn 't find that out until later . In addition , while drug advertisements encourage people to seek medical advice from professionals , there needs be more information given out when the advertisements airs because the advertisements may weaken the patient 's relationship with their doctor , not enough information is told about the drug when the advertisement airs and some people are easily influenced by these drug ads .
The $300 billion a year U.S.pharmaceutical industry burnt through $3.1 billion on publicizing professionally prescribed medications straightforwardly to shoppers in 2012 ("Prescribing Drug Ads " 1 ) . Since 1962 , these promotions have been controlled by the Food and Drug Association (FDA ) to guarantee that they are not false or deluding . The U#S# Food and Drug Association did not start to direct professionally prescribed medications until Oct . 10 , 1962 , with the entry of the Kefauver-Harris Changes .The United States and New Zealand are …show more content…
An Apr .2013 FDA overview found that 48% of specialists concur that advertisements "advise , teach , and engage " patients . Illnesses and restorative conditions will probably be dealt with when customers see physician-recommended drug promotions . As indicated by a 2004 FDA review , 88% of the doctors that had patients get some information about medications seen in advertisements reported that the patients had the conditions the medications treat and were accordingly ready to get treatment
The $300 billion a year U.S.pharmaceutical industry burnt through $3.1 billion on publicizing professionally prescribed medications straightforwardly to shoppers in 2012 ("Prescribing Drug Ads " 1 ) . Since 1962 , these promotions have been controlled by the Food and Drug Association (FDA ) to guarantee that they are not false or deluding . The U#S# Food and Drug Association did not start to direct professionally prescribed medications until Oct . 10 , 1962 , with the entry of the Kefauver-Harris Changes .The United States and New Zealand are …show more content…
An Apr .2013 FDA overview found that 48% of specialists concur that advertisements "advise , teach , and engage " patients . Illnesses and restorative conditions will probably be dealt with when customers see physician-recommended drug promotions . As indicated by a 2004 FDA review , 88% of the doctors that had patients get some information about medications seen in advertisements reported that the patients had the conditions the medications treat and were accordingly ready to get treatment