7 types of drugs with mythical effect

The pharmaceutical market of Russia, compared with Europe and the USA, is controlled much less strictly. Here are its main characteristics: a huge list of over -the -counter drugs , actively advertising in all available ways, lack of control without a prescription in pharmacies, a system of promoting doctors and pharmacies manufacturers of drugs.

As a result, a huge number of, on the one hand, are not very effective, but at the same time expensive means appear on the market. On the other hand, there are many drugs used for other purposes. To blame pharmaceutical companies would be wrong. The author of this material sincerely believes that all of the following funds were created with the aim of helping people. And perhaps they really help. But often it is not the way those who use them imagine.

Commercialization, weak control in the drug market and low literacy of doctors led to the fact that mythology has been created around entire groups of drugs. Slon tried to figure out these myths with the help of specialists.

7 types of drugs to which consumers attribute mythical properties (from the point of view of official medicine )