Alcohol Abuse Advice

Prescription Medication and the Hidden Danger

Is prescription medication bad for you or does it actually help? This is truly a question worth pondering. It seems like all of these problems we have with drugs now never really seemed to exist. Truthfully, addiction to as well as abuse of prescription medication is a fairly new development in recent years compared to other types of drug use and abuse. Part of this problem is due to the fact that technology as well as science has developed significantly over time.

If you think back even to as recently as your own parents or yourself when you were growing up, you need to ask the question, “How many commercials for drugs were on television?” Throughout the past few years, there has been much development as well as research on new types of medication. Now it seems that whenever you turn on the television, you can’t escape commercials spouting out information about symptoms for medical conditions that you didn’t previously have but now think you may have as a result of what you’ve seen or heard on television.

One of the major problems with prescription medication is the fact that it almost seems like there are too many medical advancements happening at once. Every time you turn on the television, there is a new advertisement for a different type of prescription medication. It becomes almost unbearable at times. The next thing that we need to look at are the doctors. How easy is it to get a prescription from a doctor? When I was an full-scholarship athlete, it was incredibly easy to get prescriptions written for just about anything. Having a little trouble breathing during a workout? Within a matter of hours, you were handed an inhaler. Feeling a little sluggish? Perhaps an energy drink or some iron pills are the option. No matter, just set up an appointment with the doctor to have a look. It begs the question, are doctors nowadays less ethical? Are they ignoring the fact that there may not actually be anything wrong with you?

Look at most celebrities today and you will find that the vast majority of them are on some sort of prescribed medication. If they’re not, then they’ve at least been prescribed something. Are doctors being reckless with their assessment of our actual condition? Perhaps we are so convinced that there is something wrong with us after having seen all of these commercials about various medical problems, that we really believe it and somehow convince our physicians as well! We need to ask ourselves questions which shouldn’t be all that difficult to answer. For instance, the next time a commercial comes on advertising medication for a medical condition, maybe we should ask ourselves whether or not we really think that we have that problem. How much of our “conditions” are really just a manifestation of our minds?

The mind is a powerful thing. Because of this fact, sometimes if you think long and hard enough about something, your mind will make your body believe that it is true. Yes, you can actually make yourself sick!