We pay for profitable disease-mongering

I WOULD like to endorse Mary Maddock’s letter regarding psychiatric patients forced to endure damaging treatments (The Irish Examiner, March 6).

Although those cases are on the extreme of a continuum, we are all guinea pigs without even realising it.

Marketing drives the overuse of blockbuster drugs in this country, training doctors and offering them food, friendship, flattery and many other corporate treats.