I think lobbying is a huge problem.

You look at the fun, even like when you start watching some of the hearings,

and then you go look and see who's behind them, what kind of monies have they gotten,

and what are they protecting?

Are they really working for you and I, the everyday person?

The whole system's wrapped up in the power of the money.

Even a lot of the patient advocacy groups or the disease groups that we think are actually representing the public,

a lot of them are getting, they're getting funding from the pharmaceutical companies as well.

And so they're in some ways the extension of marketing departments,

right? So everybody's speaking the messages, the controlled messages that the companies or those

in power want to have heard. It's not a red or blue issue. It's a purple for people. And so I think

at the end of the day, that's where

when you start seeing it, I'm like, because the whole system's, they're all in bed with each other.

And at the end of the day, like you, we really do need to ask the right questions or just have,

have an open mind and sit in the uncomfortable truth that we may not be being told

everything that we thought was true.

You're about to hear a story from a widow about how her husband took his own life.

And it's a really important story because his state of mind may very well have been influenced by a prescription medication.

I think we're all aware of the warnings on the labels

and the black boxes on things. Kim Witzack has been a champion of making sure that drug companies

are held accountable and do the proper warnings for people. But having said that, we are nowhere near out of the woods.

Woody Matters is her organization launched shortly after the death of her husband, Woody

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