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This may depend on whether the drug in question is the product of legal research to produce a legitimate medicine or whether it is the product of a chemist on a black market where consumers simply do not they want to buy drugs that do not produce the desired effect. The industry, with all the corporate power of research facilities and marketing campaigns behind it, can often be ambiguous when it comes to cause and effect. He has been accused of inventing "disorders" that can be treated with expensive drugs discovered during research and of offering incentives to doctors to diagnose and prescribe accordingly. Hara refers to this difference in perspectives as the “technical and social deterministic models” and suggests that the truth lies somewhere between the two (2003, pp. 8-10). One thing is clear, though, second