Pharmaceuticals & the Profit Model

When healing becomes an industry, what changes?

Focus:

• How pharma companies operate (FDA approvals, lobbying, trials)

• Overprescription, chronic condition monetization

• Psychoactive meds, metabolic meds, painkillers

• The role of OTC medications in self-regulation

• Intellectual property, research incentives, and global inequality

Optional Cheatsheet: “Big Pharma Breakdown: Prescriptions, Profit, and the Public”