Sociologists: pharmaceutical ads do little to stem stigma attached to mental illness
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STIGMA SURROUNDING MENTAL ILLNESS REMAINS DESPITE ABUNDANT PHARMACEUTICAL ADS The medicalization of such mental illnesses as depression and bipolar disorder, which have seen prescription drug advertisements on TV skyrocket since such advertising became permissible in 1997, has done nothing to remove the harmful stigma attached to the illnesses, according to sociologists from Indiana University and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. read more
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