Prescripotion Drug Compainies

Instead of helping people when they are in need and pain, prescription drug company’s main focus is to make as much of a profit as they can. They have even gone to the extreme as to come up with new diseases to make even more money for themselves. They are now targeting our children more than ever before. They know if they start early they will be hooked on it for the rest of their lives. But so far scientists know little about the long term affects of using these powerful drugs in children.
Drug companies have gotten doctors to go along with them by giving the doctors gifts and bribes so they will write more prescriptions to their patients. They have combined two different pills and given it a new name then the doctors will prescribe this new pill so the patients will have no choice but to pay the higher price. The older drugs patients are on could be working perfectly fine, but the doctors feel pressure from the drug companies so they prescribe the newer pills. Another way to make money is if a patient is prescribed a medication there will be side effects. If the patient complains, the doctor will just prescribe another medication to relieve the side effects. It is estimated that the nation may now pay as much to care for patients who were harmed by their prescriptions as it spends on those medicines in the first place. Is what they are doing ethical?