Have you seen a commercial on a particular type of medicine, gotten your doctor to prescribe the drug, and felt it changed your life for the better? Worse?
Do you think you would likely have tried that drug without a commercial?
Do these commercials influence the method of treatment you'd try for your ailment?
I, personally, think it is out of place to have such a surge of prescriptive drug commercials on television and cable.
What do you think?
2006-06-29 18:09:25 · 2 answers · asked by thedalaimama 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Absolutely not. Did you know that the pharmaceutical industry takes in more money than all other industries combined? They have a drug for every symptom a person could possibly have. Whatever happened to "sweating it out"? Maybe we'd be a healthier people if we didn't take so many pills. They want us to be scared of natural plants (marijuana: which is given to people with cancer and aids) but they want to cram all kinds of lab-created drugs down our throats. They make me sick (please excuse the pun).
2006-06-29 18:18:58 · answer #1 · answered by Ross A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think sometimes, mostly in older people, the commercials sort of help try to pinpoint the problem rather than the solution. Like the Cymbalta commercial or the Prevacid commercial...I honestly don't think that commercials make the patients ask for particular drugs unless they already know they have a condition and it is a drug they have not tried. Besides, doctors push the drugs THEY get the rewards for...Drug companies track how many prescriptions they write for a certain drug and give them vacations and ****....I think the best place to go for actual advice without seeing a doctor is a pharmacy because they know more about how the drug works and what it interacts with. Just my opinion though.
2006-06-30 02:01:48 · answer #2 · answered by snuggles24_04 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋