The next time you see a commercial for a prescription drug that “MAY” help you to quit smoking, get over depression, or hold your bladder (for the boat ride you’ve been dying to take)……
GET YOUR SMELLING SALTS.
Give yourself a chance to wake up, before you’re lulled into smiling faces and authoritative voices that claim to have the right pill for your condition. It’s delivered with such assurance that, “this might be right for you”….You are nodding in agreement before the commercial is over.
There is a chance however, that it just may be,” right for you” (?) After all, look at all the happy people getting control of their lives. Sometimes you’ll even see someone looking and sounding like a real physician. In the world of marketing, the pharmaceutical companies have the best.
If you haven’t paid close attention to the drugs disclaimers, take a whiff of your smelling salts. It shows how gullible, or uninterested the public is and how unbelievably unconcerned the Medical community is, for allowing it.
When the pharmaceutical companies first started advertising their drugs, the disclaimers were generally brief. Warning the medication may cause drowsiness, diarrhea, or something else reasonably mild. Now, you can’t write them down fast enough and turn oblivious, to this verbal fine print. Yada yada yada, This is certainly not unintentional.
Have you noticed how many of these prescription drugs, at the very end of a long list of possibilities, add it “may also lead to suicidal thoughts, or in some cases, even death”? Frankly, so does Cocaine, Heroin, Meth and others, we’ve already outlawed.
If commercials showed how good a person a person can feel on Cocaine, we’d all be in line. It’s too good, too habitual and too dangerous. Yet should the pharmaceutical companies ever find a way to mask it, as a prescription drug, you can bet they will tell you about it in their commercials.
Many of the side effects, of legal prescription drugs, are even more threatening. Had I seen the possible side effects of the drug Chantix that aids smokers to quit…I would have kept smoking. Better to take the chance of skirting cancer, with a habit I enjoyed, than be encouraged with suicidal thoughts, while detoxifying. Any smoker who’s tried to quit, has their own thoughts of “jumping” on occasion, without needing assistance. A men’s drug that is supposed to shrink enlarged prostrates, warns women, not to take OR EVEN HANDLE Avodart, due to possible birth defects.
I think the ultimate disclaimer, is the one that finally suggests, “ask your doctor if (said drug) is right for you.” A clever attorney diminishing the pharmaceutical company’s liability, throwing it on the physician. (After all, he should know if it’s ok for you to take it, right?) Brilliant!
Free marketing and the unbelievable trust given the pharmaceutical Gods, by the FDA and Medical Association, can and does, sell anything. We presume them to be the experts, looking out for our well being, because we want to. We don’t want to be responsible for ourselves and we’ve stopped thinking, for ourselves.
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Prescription drugs are not designed to cure the cause; they’re designed to treat the symptoms. Otherwise two things would happen.
1. We would not have to take these drugs continuously for life.
2. The Pharmaceutical Companies would put themselves out of business.
People not only take more pills than ever before, the costs have skyrocketed. Especially if, life is threatened, without the drugs, When the body grows dependant on these drugs, serious consequences can occur if stopped taking.
Do you notice any similarities to how the illegal drug trade operates?
1. Show how good a person can feel, when taking the drug,
2. Make it readily available, popular and even alluring.
3. Get them dependant, so they need to continue taking the drug, for their well being.
4. Keep the prices high, enjoy high profits and lure more clients to expand their network.
In all fairness to the Pharmaceutical Companies, there is no doubt, whatsoever; they are modern miracles, with a myriad of necessary and appreciated prescription drugs. No doubt in the least. They are invaluable. What we don’t need is a drug for every “itch” the human condition is bound to encounter. RSL?... Restless leg syndrome? Excuse me?
Many of the prescription drugs are not even biodegradable. 50 to 95% of each drug is excreted unchanged, or metabolized. Producing chemical effects forever and mixing into our sewage systems, land and atmosphere. As my friend Joyce, put it so well, “we have become architects of our own demise.”
We need fewer pollutants, with unnatural side effects and more of the natural remedies long proven over the centuries. Call it alternative medicine, wives tales, Grandmas remedy, or natural use of the healing properties of plants and herbs.
The very ones used by physicians and pharmacists before synthetic drugs. They had medical books that referenced which herbs treated which ailments. What so many of them have forgotten is, they work.
Synthetic medicine is far cheaper to produce. It’s controllable and provides a much higher financial yield. Stockholders demand nothing else, but profit.
Because profit is the leading drive in producing prescription drugs, I sadly find it doubtful that Cancer, Aids and any of our horrific disease will not be actually cured until life nears extinction. It doesn’t pay to. I’m sorry, but it’s common knowledge, drug companies know they will come up with an antidote, should one of their drugs fail. It’s called business. Very big business.
In 2002, according to Harpers, Aids killed 2500 Zimbabwe a week, while prescription drugs killed 1900 a week in the US. And that was in 2002. Don’t you find that scary?
The next time you see a commercial for prescription drugs, pay attention to what it’s for and the disclaimers it gives. Take responsibility, they’re insulting your intelligence.
The same way the FDA and the Medical Association does, for allowing it.
Say no to drugs, legal, or illegal. It may save your life.
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