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More young adults on cholesterol drugs - Yahoo! News (broken link)
I know this article does really have that much to do with what I'm asking. But it just got me thinking of how many people are on some type of drug to control some type of problem. We have stuff for cholesterol, ADHD, Emotional disorders, blood pressure, etc,etc. And while I agree that some preventive medicines are good and that some people need some of these medicines. I'm also inclined to think that America is over medicating. And that may lead to some more serious health problems for our people in the future. Of course I take into consideration that currently most Americans treat there body like crap and this leads to complications of all sort. But still I think medicines in general are being over done.
We get our fair share of antibiotics, if we like them or not. Ick. Even wrose, scary!
On the converse is a great irony. We are bad at making actual pharms. available to people at an affordable rate, yet we pioneer those very drugs for the rest of the world.
I think the Ritalins, Cholesterol drugs, et. cetera are oftentimes overused.
More young adults on cholesterol drugs - Yahoo! News (broken link)
I know this article does really have that much to do with what I'm asking. But it just got me thinking of how many people are on some type of drug to control some type of problem. We have stuff for cholesterol, ADHD, Emotional disorders, blood pressure, etc,etc. And while I agree that some preventive medicines are good and that some people need some of these medicines. I'm also inclined to think that America is over medicating. And that may lead to some more serious health problems for our people in the future. Of course I take into consideration that currently most Americans treat there body like crap and this leads to complications of all sort. But still I think medicines in general are being over done.
i think sometimes people especially elderly see more than one doctor and they dont know what the other doctor is perscribing and the patient ends up with a shopping cart full of drugs.
pretty common when they check into a nursing home.
stephen s
san diego ca
But it just got me thinking of how many people are on some type of drug to control some type of problem. We have stuff for cholesterol, ADHD, Emotional disorders, blood pressure, etc,etc. And while I agree that some preventive medicines are good and that some people need some of these medicines. I'm also inclined to think that America is over medicating.
Absolutely!!
I can actually remember a time when advertisements for prescription drugs were not permitted on TV....
Now we've not only got doctors pushing a pill solution for every complaint, we've got pharmaceutical companies pushing PATIENTS to push their doctors into pushing pills.
Congress and nearly all of the political figures of our country have bent over backwards for the pharmaceutical manufacturers. It's big $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Every other commercial is pushing some sort of drug (depression; erectal dysfunction, overactive bladder) Gimme a break Not to mention when you go to the doctor they're trying to put you on a pill of some sort. It's sickening!
My wife and I are having our first child. Being young this is really our first time being exposed to how medicinal the United States is.
I really had a lot of faith in our Hospitals and Doctors... before we started talking to them! They want to drug you at all costs, we basically have told our Doctors NO to any drugs, but they still say "Keep an open mind". It is pretty sicking IMO.
This medical system we have in America is corrupt, all of it is to save money for insurance companies by not actually treating the patients and going straight to drugs.
Anyway we decided to go with a Midwife and she has promised us a natural birth plan.
Definitely! I moved with my family from England to the US seven years ago, and I could not believe how much medication people took here compared to the UK. Drugs to get them well, drugs to keep them well, drugs to make them happy, drugs to put them to sleep, drugs to make them lose weight, drugs to keep eight-year-olds from acting like second graders, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs, drugs.
In my eighteen years of life, I've been put on antibiotics once, and I think I've been to the doctor once or twice in the past five years. While everyone else has been gunged up with medication and still gotten seriously ill every winter, I have never come down with strep throat or the flu. I missed about three days of high school (all four years total) due to sickness.
I always disliked my mother for never taking me to the doctor and sending me into school with a minor cold... she rarely even bought me cough syrup! However, my immune system is obviously one of the strongest around, so I can hardly hold anything against her.
I'd like to spread the blame all around.......
I work with three women and on any given day one of them are dazed and confused. Instead of trying to fix what's wrong they and the docs just use more drugs.
When I started having allergies, I went to my regular doc for my 3rd sinus infection in 5 months.
Doc: It's allergies
Me: Can we find out what I'm allergic to?
Doc: You live in Fla it's everything
Me:then what can I do?
Doc: Here's some pills.
I called an allergist on the way home...we're fixing the problem so eventually I will be off this medication.
Absolutely. As in so many other things, they've been seduced by the prospect of a "quick fix". Instant gratification, or at least Instant Improvement with minimal or no effort or inconvenience required.
I agree. The doctors are as much to blame as the patients and the pharmaceutical companies.
I'm not sure which is worse, though: The patient who demands the quick fix prescription, or the one who blindly obeys whenever their doctor takes the knee-jerk "take a pill" approach.
I'm not a fan of either doctors or any kind of drugs. Unless I have a confirmed infection, the only thing that passes my lips is Advil when I overtax my aging muscles or when my wonky knee bothers me in damp weather. I've had doctors tell me I "need to" take everything from HRT to cholesterol drugs, and I've always given them the same answer: NO. If they get pushy about it, I say "Thanks for your time", walk out the door (after paying their bill, which is a whole other subject) and I don't go back.
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Not to mention when you go to the doctor they're trying to put you on a pill of some sort. It's sickening!
