[FireBeyond]

This is another of those "no idea how to fix it says only country where it's a problem" type issues.

The only two countries where direct-to-consumer prescription advertising is legal are the US and New Zealand, and my belief/understanding from my time living in Australia was that informal or other trade agreement negotiation pressure from the US was at least one of the reasons for that.

> The "placebo effect" may contribute to a success of a drug. Maybe drug ads help start this psychological process through the visuals in their ads.

So in theory, US responses to medications should be notably better than in other countries, right?

> I'd say they don't really explicitly mislead

I'd disagree - in the realm of mental health drugs, many ads have such vague handwaving as to be useless (where to me is that the misleading intent is to get you asking your doctor about a specific drug regardless of what's going on) - "Do you have trouble starting your day? Cymbalta could help! Ask your doctor! Eli Lilly can help with the cost!"