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🔴 WATCH THE FULL EPISODE: https://ept.ms/49rAGgg “American medicine is on steroids,” says drug policy researcher Alan Cassels, co-author of “Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients.” America is one of only two countries that allow direct-to-consumer drug advertising, which works in two ways: it exposes millions of Americans to constant disease mongering, and it makes mainstream media heavily reliant upon pharma ad dollars. This then affects editorial decisions in the newsroom, he says. And this explains why few Americans know the story of the pain reliever drug Vioxx, Cassels says.