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Commercial interests contribute to drug use and addiction
Biomedical sciences are bringing increased focus to social determinants of health, which the World Health Organization (WHO) defines as “the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, the systems put in place to deal with illness, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.”1 Very often, commercial interests are intertwined with these social and environmental factors, which has led to the recognition by WHO and other agencies of the need to study and address so-called commercial determinants of health.2 Commercial interests are an important component of the social determinants of addictive behaviors and disorders.
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