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Yeah I got a prescription. IMO, these are pill farms. Everyone talks about how the medical industry is so driven by money, but somehow when it comes to mental health, people seem to shrug off the fact that everyone from the pharma companies down to the doctors office stands to make money by diagnosing and prescribing.

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I think tribal and political social media discourse has exacerbated this effect, by which I mean, blanket acceptance of the ADHD diagnosis process and medication is now left-coded.

Conspiracy theorist anti-vax types exhibit "Big Pharma" skepticism, so media and pundits take great care to remind people of this. They want them to believe that they're picking a side in tribal politics.

edit: Another way it becomes left-coded is exhibited in this thread: victimization and grievance politics.

Anecdote - I'm in no way antivax or auth right but I still have a very strong skepticism to big pharma and corruption in general. I think about Purdue pharma often and how they showed just how much money you can print with some bribery and a sociopathic disregard for human life. Killing Americans is big (and shockingly safe) business if you cut the right folks in and do it at large scale!

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