My opinion of the 2 articles

After reading through the article "Abbott rapped for pulling drugs out of thailand", I think that there is no absolute right or wrong for the both sides. Abbott trying to pull drugs out of thailand, is because they want to stop these people from producing copy-cat drugs from their original drugs. Besides this reason, these copy-cat drugs does not go through any clinical trial test, nor any processes that is required before producing drugs. Therefore, this drugs is consider not as safe, and it might not appear to be as effective as the original drugs to the patients.

On the hand, those people in thailand start to produce their own copy-cat drugs, mainly due to a reason that they were unable to afford all those expensive original drugs. Thailand is considered to be one of the poor country. Since they cannot afford the original drugs, the only way out for them is to combine a few content of the drugs, and produce their own copy-cat drugs, for people in their country.

Since the drugs company, have to go through lots of clinical trial and processes, before putting it on the shelf, thus it is impossible for them to lower the price of the drugs further. The only way not to affect either sides, govenment can consider to provide incentives for the poor people in buying the drugs.

The other article that i would like to talk, is about "pushing drugs". I fully agreed with the article that illness are "created". Then from there the pharmeutical companies, can start to do research on drugs to "cure" the illness, and in turn earn money from from there.

For example, sometimes people just cannot get into their sleeps. These pharmaceutical compines kind of going through some research and realise that there is this kind of problems with people. So, they when to develop a drug to solve these people problem, and called it a sleeping pill. From then, once people cant go into their sleep, probably somethings are bothering in their minds, they will turn to these pills.