Pills, Profit & Power – How Pharmaceutical Giants Built a System of Control

From SSRIs and Adderall to Ozempic and statins, the modern pharmaceutical industry has turned symptom management into a trillion-dollar machine. In this episode, we uncover how Big Pharma’s “pill for every ill” mentality transformed healthcare from healing to dependency — and ask whether we’re treating disease, or sustaining it.
- How drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy became global weight-loss sensations — and why the pounds return when the injections stop.
- Why Adderall’s wartime origins reveal how productivity and profit drive mental-health prescriptions.
- The truth behind SSRIs, the “chemical imbalance” myth, and how antidepressants reshaped psychiatry.
- How beta blockers and statins expose the hidden economics of chronic disease management.
- What an integrative, root-cause approach to medicine could look like — and why the system resists it.

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