The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
Doctors are well-aware that they don’t really have cures for much of anything.
They can eradicate invaders, such as bacteria, that do damage to the body through the use of antibiotics, but they can’t cure the permanent damage that was done by those invaders prior to antibiotic treatment.
They can trick the body into building up it’s own defense systems through the use of vaccines which can even be helpful after the body has started to be attacked by a virus. But they can’t cure the damage that was done by the virus before the body was able to repel the invader (with or without the doctors’ treatments).
Sometimes the body is able to recover on its own through its own mechanisms with the help of enough nutrition and rest (and sometimes doctors are able to take credit for this).
In the realms of disease and disorders, there have been no cures (until now).
Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary has a variety of definitions for the noun "cure":
My guess is that most doctors prefer the third definition that does not imply any permanent state of health.
I define a cure as a method of treatment that provides such a state of health that any change in that state would make that organism worse. (Any medication would create a decline in the health of a truly healthy person, as it would effect a very healthy and sensitive child.)
Medications are substances that create change in the functioning of organisms. Medications create change in the states of health or the mechanisms of various systems in the body.
Take this logic one step further and it is safe to say that stopping the use of a medication also creates some change in the functioning of the organism or the systems of that organism.
So if stopping a medication creates a change, and a cure is a state of health where any change would make the organism worse, then a medication-induced cure would possibly be a treatment where the person gets better by stopping the medication. (As a variation on this theme: Instead of a medication treatment that takes away the symptoms from a drug withdrawal, for instance, the best treatment would be the treatment that causes more of the withdrawal in an accelerated or amplified manner as it is the withdrawal that is necessary in order to find the healthier state than that of the drug dependence with the loss of function that is implied.)
A medication-induced withdrawal treatment fits this logic... a withdrawal from the illness... a medication that temporarily makes the organism worse, perhaps.
With the hundreds of millions of dollars that are required to legally test new drug treatments, no drug company could ever make money from a treatment that makes people better when they withdraw from using the medication.
With our current system, no drug company could ever make money from a cure. They make their fortunes by developing maintenance medications that need to be taken continuously.
With our current system, no drug company will even try to develop such a cure.
(And the cure for a bunch of disorders can be administered with medications already on the market that have been around long enough to be available in generic form... another reason the drug companies can’t make money from the treatment.)
Even if only one pharmaceutical company held the patent on the only medication that could provide such a cure, it is very likely that the same company could lose money with the cure because the discovery would result in no dependence on their medication and have a deleterious effect on the sales of some of their many other money-making drugs.
Pharmaceutical companies fund more than 90% of all medical research and thus control the nature of the language used to analyze and explain the data, even in the university settings.
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