so i just watched this newscast about how masshealth is cutting prescription coverage for certain "unnecessary" psychofarm drugs like neurontin for bi-polar disorder. i dont even know if i can call the media "biased" anymore bc proclivity would imply that they have some knowledge of least one side of an issue and they don't. they interview and dramatize the life experiences of poor, unfortunate people and avoid the underlying issues all-together. they are like the idiot at the table who misses the political conversation and instead comments on how nice someone's outfit is.
anyway, i hate to even joke about siding with romneys legislation bc they suck, but i need to research this more. i wonder how the mass rx commission is justifying this cut. did they finally find out how commonly misdiagnosed bi-polar disorder is or are they just conducting business as usualy by targeting majority of pharmaceutical receiptiants: the poor and the elderly, or both?
it's amazing how Bi-polar disorder didnt even exist a few years ago, but now there is a myriad of really expensive drugs to treat it, such as neurontin which was originally developed for people who experience seizures. i'm definitely not siding with my crappy, uber-conservative state that rewards a construction project that's 8 billion dollars over-budget, and punishes the poor and cuts education, but when more and more symptom-producing meds are making the pharmaceutical industry the richest in the world--drugs like lipitor that have been proven to cause liver disease and other related disorders, drugs that treat the symptoms not the causes of behaviorally preventable diseases like poor diet and high blood pressure and high cholesterol, i take issue. then there's the mythical ssri. ssri's that, in epidemiological studies, have been proven to cause breast and cervival cancer, but Eli-lily's financial influence on main-stream medicine have slanted research and publications on these issues. also, many doctors get penalized by insurance companies if they don't prescribe certain drugs. translation=lots of pharmaceutical companies are getting rich off of fucking people up and their financial influence is re-inventing the medical world. When Eli-Lily was losing their patent on prozac a few years ago, the decided to re-market the drug as "Serefem." You may remember that they made up a new disorder called "PMDD" or pre-menstrual dismorphic disorder. Ironic isn't it? The lucrative treatment came before the actual disorder. Oh, you may have remembered the lame-ass commercial featuring this stressed-out mother having a melt down in the grocery store because she couldn't get her cart out of the carrel..then this cloud-blue "serefem" billows down from the heavens and she's suddenly back to her original baseline of no stress, as would be the case for any overworked, single mother, hypothetically speaking. Like I say, the treatment treats the symptom not the cause and furthermore causes more symptoms, like sexual dysfunction But, uncannily, Pfizer has developed a remarkable new drug for female sexual dysfunction called "female Viagra" so one could take that to counter-act the new side-effects from the previous drug and so on and so forth, the vicious cycle continues. And they're making a mint off of people's vicious cycle, which is more just shear desperation and lack of knowledge.
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Mystic River was a great portrayal of this area, I thought. The character development was amazing and creepy. I Love Marsha Gay-Harding. Mostly because of Casa de los babys and Pollack, but she was great in this too. The acting was great. The lack of resolution at the end of the movie bothered me tho. It seemed like there was new suspicion introduced and thrown in there was this ending moment that portrayed how sick ppl kinda protect each other when they fuck up.
All in all, it was fantastic. Most notable was Tim Robbins, I thought. He's versatile..i know that sounds so trite..but he really is an underrated actor.
Go see it, but don't expect a nice, tightly-wrapped Hollywood ending. You won't get one. I think maybe Eastwood was hoping for that while remaining true to the book.
I have cortisone injection tomorrow. Soon my cat Bella will too. We'll have this great barrier-free species experience, not like we already don't. She's can be itchy. My neck will be sore.
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