What is Big Pharma's role in psychiatric medications, can you read this article and tell me?

http://www.newstarget.com/021768.html





The secret history of Big Pharma's role in creating and marketing heroin, LSD, meth, Ecstasy and speed


Tuesday, April 03, 2007 by: Mike Adams





Most consumers think street drugs are in an entirely different class than prescription drugs, they believe pharmaceutical companies would never manufacture or sell street drugs. But...drug companies actually invented many street drugs now considered most devastating, including heroin and meth ("ice").





the connection:





Heroin was launched by Felix Hoffman, of Bayer...Bayer applied for a trademark term "heroin," then began marketing drug as a cure for morphine addiction...cough syrup for children.





Parke-Davis, of Pfizer, promoted and sold cocaine. It


even produced a "cocaine injection kit"





A subsidiary of Novartis, Sandoz Laboratories, introduced LSD in 1938, marketing it as a psychiatric drug named Delysid.





Merck pioneered morphine from opium





Find out more by reading the article|||My opinion-pharmaceutical companies come up with great drugs............drugs that help people with all kinds of illnesses...


it is the elite few that abuse the drugs that make them not worthy of the good intentions that they were created for.


just like with any other good product, someone will abuse it or misuse it and make it an unreputable product to be talked about badly...|||Yes, although you need to realize none of the companies manufactured "street drugs". When the drugs were synthesized, they were legal drugs with potential medical uses. Morphine, heroin and cocaine do have known medical uses. And LSD may have some also.





A more interesting question is why they were illegalized.|||Big pharma is big business, they make drugs to make money. plain and simple.|||A good question is why they are illegal. When I watch cops, I get so outraged by the show every time I see them arresting someone in their car. You're getting arrested for putting something into your own body... most drugs are made out to be much different from what they actually are. Supporting terrorism is bad, who wants to do that? So is the violence, but all this would be solved if they were legal... good point...