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Better Living Thru Chemistry?? Or - There must be a pill for that!
In viewing the London Telegraph this evening online, the common themes related to the field of Medicine are so often headlines. And, of course, it is not unique to the Telegraph..I have yet to find a major newspaper that does not carry either the same story or a similar one. BigPharma is Big News in general. But in the field of Psychiatry, the stories of increased antidepressant usage, anti-anxiety meds, and excessive medicating of our very old and very young seem far too common. Then, it seems so ironic that stories about excessive psychiatric medications are typically surrounded by paid advertisements for other psychiatric medications.
In recent months, I have found posts typically showing 1 in 5 or 1 in 4 adults are being prescribed psychiatric medications. And more people are dying from “accidental overdoses’ than motor vehicles collisions. Earlier this past week, a new form of a narcotic was approved in the States that can be crushed and is 10 times more potent than our current narcotics. Addictionologists are understandingly worried. It must be more than just BigPharma and Direct to Consumer advertisements. Our entire culture seems to have accepted the dangerous myth that there is a correct medication for distress and pursue various options as if on a mission for the Holy Grail.
In an effort for some comic relief, the hilarious Broadway Musical number “Not Dead Yet” from YouTube will be inserted. I realize the deaths from accidental overdoses are very real, very common, and so tragic…but Spamalot warrants a listen. In reality, I continue to be shocked and in disbelief at how many take pharmaceutical prescriptions excessively, with apparently no thoughts that they just may not wake up. So from the home town of Judy Garland, here is the pirated broadway song “Not Dead Yet”
Not Dead Yet – (with "yet" the most important word !
Spamalot - the Musical & Spam- the food product from Minnesota - Spamily Reunions here.
