Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs

[Spiderman]

Interesting that the country that is under the influence of the most drugs has the best economy and best military in the world.

So great is the American economy, that if the Roman empire were to return with its same borders at the height of its Glory, America would still have a better economy than the whole Roman Empire. And yet, statistics show us to be druggies on average more than any other nation. The Most Medicated Country In The World: 46% Of Americans Have Taken A Pharma Drug Within The Last 30 Days.

Maybe being overmedicated is doing some good for us? Ya never know...but there are legal medications that make me a much harder worker, get me out of bed reading, writting, exercising, praising God, and feeling in touch with the spirit-world of the kami, so I think drugs are doing some good for our country.

I'm not talking about anything illegal. (That article is not talking about illegal drugs. )

 

[MikeDwight]

Plus! You can just not take them! Somebody explain that. The doctor can't know your health better than you , as If you get daily checkups, they sell you medications. Don't take expensive medications for nothing.

 

[dfnj]

Research has shown:

 

[dianaiad]

Plus! You can just not take them! Somebody explain that. The doctor can't know your health better than you , as If you get daily checkups, they sell you medications. Don't take expensive medications for nothing.

Huh.

Well, on one hand I can understand the trend here. More people on more drugs, perhaps taking drugs that are not needed for ailments that don't require treatment to that extent, or those who take prescription meds for ailments that, frankly, don't really exist.

On the OTHER hand....

I'm willing to bet that if I am not the most expensively medicated poster on this forum, I come very close. One medication I take, 21 days on, 7 days off, costs someone (not me, but someone) about $7,000 per cycle. then I go in for IV chemotherapy, and that one day, with all the medications pumped into me, someone (not me, but someone) pays nearly $6000. Then there are all the other, less expensive, medications; gabapenton to fight the peripheral neuropathy, so that I can actually knit, type and walk, acyclovir to keep shingles away, compazine, ativan and something else...I forget...for the nausea chemo causes, vitamins, etc, and of course the Vicodin. Not that I take that very often, but I have it to take when required. Altogether, then, I cost Kaiser something like $15,000 per month.

That's just me. there are quite a few other people with Multiple Myeloma who are still around, and kicking, riding bicycles in races, working and being productive ten and fifteen years after the first diagnosis....when without all those prescriptions, they would have been dead within months.

.....the same goes for other diseases, like AIDS, like Diabetes, like....oh, you know where I'm going with this.

Yes, a whole bunch of us take a lot of prescribed medication, and perhaps we ARE the most medicated nation in the world. That's because...those who take those pills are still above ground to be counted.

What I would like to see is MORE nations being more medicated than they are, so that people don't die of MM within months of being diagnosed with it, or who can take the drug coctail that keeps American AIDS patients walking gaily through life.

Excuse me. I have to go take my night pills now.

 

[PureX]

Interesting that the country that is under the influence of the most drugs has the best economy and best military in the world.

Money is just another drug for many Americans.

 

[Guitar's Cry]

Well, drugs help us cope with the reality that much of us are cogs in a system designed to make the rich richer.