Talk:Havidol

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HAVIDOL (avafynetyme HCL)

When More is not Enough

HAVIDOL (avafynetyme HCL) is prescribed to people with Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder (DSACDAD). Sufferers of (DSACDAD) reported such symptoms as worrying about life, feeling tense, restless, or fatigued, being concerned about their weight, noticing signs of aging, feeling stress at work, home, or finding activities they used to enjoy, like shopping, challenging before taking HAVIDOL. The drug has been proven to enhance indoor and outdoor physical activities. Since the drug has a short half life, the patient must take HAVIDOL repeatedly in order to maintain the beneficial effect. Available in 20mg tablets or suppositories^[1].

How does it work?

Scientists believe that DSACDAD develops in a person when the brain's reward system is compromised, meaning that a person is feeling anything but their best. The drug works by binding to the receptors of the recently discovered hedonine hormone. What this means for the sufferer is a greatly improved sense of well-being and the ability to enjoy the challenges of our high-paced culture^[2].

Side Effects

As with many medications, HAVIDOL has several side effects that mainly improve a person's overall well-being. These side effects include, but are not limited to^[3]:

Mood changes
Muscle strain
Extraordinary thinking
Dermal gloss
Impulsivity induced consumption
Excessive salivation
Hair growth
Co-dependency with inanimate objects
Markedly delayed sexual climax
Inter-species communication
Taste perversion
Terminal smile
Oral inflammation

Propaganda

This page seems to be like an advertisement and is rife with propaganda about success stories and no mention of any negative side effects etc. Please cull the author. Anand droog (talk) 12:49, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Havidol is not a real drug. The ad campaign is a parody. Someone go carried away and include much of the ad copy. There is probably a problem with copyright violation as a result. In the mean time I am changing the order of the article to better reflect that this is a parody. --Dan Dassow (talk) 14:20, 10 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Success Stories

Testimonials of the drug have revealed patients feeling^[4]:

renewed interest in themselves
increased ability to spend
higher risk tolerance
better quality consumer decisions
improved social attention-getting skills
return to former self esteem levels
supplementary stamina levels
augmented vision
a surge in well-being

References

History

According to the artist, the "official HAVIDOL website", havidol.com, had 5,000 hits within a few days after its creation, and some visitors to her gallery have believed HAVIDOL to be a real prescription drug.^[1]

HAVIDOL was presented at the 18th Consumers International World Congress on The Ethics of Drug Promotion held in Sydney, Australia October 29 to November 1, 2007.^[2] Amberbodnar (talk) 04:52, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Reuters (Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:40PM EST) Fake drug, fake illness -- and people believe it! last accessed 2007-02-24
^ Ridberg, Ronit; Carbona, Gene; Cooper, Justine (Artist and creator of the exhibit 'Havidol – When More is Not Enough') (2007-10-31), "SESSION 8 (plenary), Media technologies and public campaigning, Panel discussion", International World Congress, Holding Corporations to Account, Luna Park, Sydney, October 29 to November 1, 2007, Jointly organised by Consumers International and CHOICE {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |first3= and |title= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

Category?

I suggest "Uncategorisable" which would be a new (and self-defeating?) category. The only other fake drug campaign I'm aware of was about 50 years ago for an anti-depressant called Damitol, which now seems to exist only as a punk rock group. Snezzy 12:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Art_exhibitions seems to apply, so I tagged it as such, but feel free to change or add other related categories. "Uncategorisable" is uninformative and shouldn't be used. "Hoaxes" doesn't seem to apply. Maybe "Political Satire". It's hard to tell since there is so little information in the article. - Aagtbdfoua 01:07, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I don't like citations to new papers but have found this story(?) reported by Reuters. [1]--Aspro 21:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Medical satire

Whilst I can't spare the time right now, I have been wondering if there is enough material to create a new article dedicated to Medical satire? The existing article on Satire is getting rather large. The art of medicine and the art of satire often seem close bedfellows (no pun intended) so there must be plenty of scope for a separate article.
http://www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/staff/Kivisto/kivisto_abstract.htm
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/309/6970/1714

Have added sources for a few resent examples below and am sure there must be many more.
PharmAmorin:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46032

The drugs you need:
http://cu.convio.net/site/PageServer?pagename=Rx_song_download

The town of Allopath:
http://mercola.fileburst.com/Flash/Allopath/newsubscribe.swf

Qfever:
http://www.qfever.com/issues/20051005/index.html
--Aspro 16:01, 7 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Clean up claims

I changed the claim that "many" people had been fooled by this campaign to "some", since that matches the Reuters source. In any case "many people" and "some people" are both weasel words, and I'll probably remove the claim entirely unless we're able to flesh it out a little more.

I also removed the statsaholic.com link, since I see no evidence that it's a reliable source (the Google ads slapped across the top don't fill me with confidence). In any case the statsaholic seems to report 10,000 monthly uniques (in the intial month), down to about 1,000 monthly uniques in December, which didn't match the claim (that I have now removed) of 1,000 hits per day in December 2007. - Aagtbdfoua (talk) 02:22, 9 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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