Illness Inflation: Expanded Medical Definitions Create More Patients

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has issued a watchdog report titled “Illness Inflation” that examines how new medical conditions are often the product of industry groups aiming to create a market for expensive new drugs. “There are powerful interests that want the numbers to be inflated,” said Allan Horwitz, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University and author of “Creating Mental Illness.” “All of these estimates push the numbers upward.”

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