America on drugs

Overselling Overmedication
New York Times
2/20/08

This article was written in the New York times about how America really doesn't have the drug problem everyone thinks it has. I'm not talking about illegal drugs, i'm talking about prescription medications. The article is called Overselling Overmedication by Judith Warner, and argues that it only APPERAS that america has been inaccurately and overprescribed prescription medication drugs.The article was very well written in my opinion and brought some interesting facts, statistics and ideas to light.
The article argues that the only reason "Big Pharma"(large pharmaceutical companies) are made to look so evil today is that because they are some of the biggest corporations in the world, their ad's are everywhere, and their products(medications) can be related to everyone, because so many people rely on their medicine to be a normal functioning member of society. I would have to agree for the most part with this author. I worked in a pharmacy for 3 years and both my parents are pharmacist, and most people honestly rely on their medicine to even be alive. The life expectancy of my generation is 120 years! I can reasonably estimate the reason for this unheard of age, as an average age i will be alive, is because current prescription drugs are good now, just imagine how good they will be when i'm old and need to take them so something crazy doesn't happen like my heart exploding during romantic times with the old lady. Humans will continue to need medications to fix ourselves because we destroy our bodies everyday with cigarettes, liquor, fast food, harmful drugs, unsafe sex, and walking miles and miles from your car to your class because LSU decides to rennovate every aspect of their campus during my time of benefitting from their educational facilities. Broken things need fixing if they intend to last. We need to be "fixed" when were old, so we can stay old. which makes no sense but you get the point. sorry for that ramble but the point i'm trying to make is that i congradulate this author for looking at this from the not so normal perspective instead of the normal drug company articles about how they are governed by satan, and don't care about their consumers. I'm almost sure that we dont' "alter" our minds anymore than people before modern society, where they probly stayed in an "altered" state of mind because life then really was harsh, violent and real. I guess they probly wanted to escape reality alot more than we do now. Sorry this is long i could write a paper on this. Great article, mostly in agreement, great points were made, i could write alot more but i know your tired of reading this.