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There isn't a conspiracy. Drug companies have a duty to make a profit by marketing drugs that cost them millions of dollars to develop. They have a limited time to do so because patents in the drug industry are usually quite short. It doesn't take a genius to add that all up and realize that in order to make this profit, they may not put the health of individuals as their highest priority.

Money can corrupt ethical concerns. We've seen this in the past with Big Tobacco and its scientists who were paid to present studies that minimized the negative effects of Tobacco. A good fictional movie on this was "The Insider" with Russell Crowe about a whistleblowing scientist who testified against big Tobacco that they were suppressing the real dangers of smoking. The truth came out eventually. Just as it does when some of these drugs end up killing people or causing horrible complications. You can see it in lots of industries. There's the Fight Club example of car companies that make recall decisions based on whether they think a particular car problem will cost more if they recall the cars, or if they leave the problem out there and have to settle litigation.

There's no conspiracy. Just some massive corporations making billions of dollars selling drugs that alter brain chemistry. Part of the problem is the assumption that society is always progressing and finding newer and better cures. Sometimes they are just newer and not actually better.

Go research the way studies are conducted and the way drugs are marketed in the US if you don't believe it.

I think the OP got lots of great advice already on what he/she can do with the anxiety problem. If you don't like reading concerns about the ethical standards of the drug industry then skip over it.