Drug Circus Pt. 1

Written by: Terry

Parents, please talk to your kids about drugs—the legal ones. I would love to see an anti-drug commercial featuring Mom and Dad sitting with their children at the dinner table trying to explain why they consume a variety of drugs daily in order to cope with the pressures of social mobility, careers, parenthood and all of life’s little problems.

While children sit through class after class, year after year learning about the dangers of alcohol, tobacco, cocaine and many others, there is very little attention paid to an expanding marketplace of pharmaceuticals which has the entire country hooked.

They come in many shapes, sizes, colors, and some even come in flavors. These days people are popping pills like candy. One of the most fascinating hypocrisies American society has attempted to maintain is its double standard culture concerning narcotics.

The pharmaceutical industry is among the fastest growing industries in the country. Turn on your television during the prime time family hour and you are guaranteed to be sold promises to cure your anxiety, depression, sickness, fatigue, aches, pains, obesity, old age, bad breath, organ problems, foot fungus, STDs and limp dick.

My personal favorites are the dozens of ways to make that “special place” bigger so you can keep up a misogynistic ego of rocking her world and finally put an end to that shameful feeling of throwing a hot dog down a hallway. That’s right folks; they are selling happiness in a bottle for only $19.95. Call now and they will double your supply Just pick up the phone and give up those digits on the little piece of plastic in your wallet. You too can fix whatever ails you, even if it’s not FDA approved.

Talk to your doctor about taking their “stuff.” Don’t worry; making an inquiry to imbibe something that the voice on television told you to will not in any way sound absurd to a medical professional. Remember the happy couple running through the fields while they play Frisbee with Fido. That’s PR for you, saving marriages, one pill at a time.

To Be Continued…

Tags: Culture, Drugs, Family, Society | Jan 9, 2008 |

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Malia

LOL…LOL…LOL….limp dick???? Yikes!!!

*OMG, stop makin me laugh at work*

It’s so funny, my cousins have an ongoing joke about which pill they’re taking at the present……. Cialis, Viagra and Levitra…..you gotta admit that it’s pretty bad when the Brand is just as familiar as KFC or McDonald’s!!!!! And please tell me what the F is Restless Leg Syndrome???? I think Chris Rock said it best when he said they make it start with a Z and you KNOW IT’S GOTTA WORK!!!!! LMAO!!!!!!

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Felicia

There are undoubtedly many Americans who abuse prescription drugs– there are also many Americans who abuse food, alcohol, and gamble compulsively. Phobia of prescription drug abuse has led to untold suffering by thousands of chronic pain sufferers because doctors are unwilling to attract the attention of DEA zealots and state licensing boards ;controlled drugs are underprescribed in this country. Adding to our national paranoia regarding controlled substances cannot help: increased control will simply enrich black market drug dealers. This is a “problem” whose cure is worse than the disease. Anti-medication hysteria has led to the underprescription of pain medication for terminal cancer patients on the grounds that they may, even with a few months to live, become “addicted”. It has also most certainly increased the use, by pain patients, of illegal drugs. This book encourages more of the same. The fallacies upon which this book is based are obvious in the title itself: real epidemics are never “hidden”.

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LoverOfPeace

Finally, someone has addressed the rampant problem of prescription drug abuse and addiction.

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LoverOfPeace

Check out: Prescription Drug Abuse: The Hidden Epidemic : A Guide to Coping and Understanding by Rod Colvin.

Rod Colvin provides readers who are concerned about their loved ones’ prescription drug abuse the tools to both personally cope and take action to help. This is no small problem; as a paramedic, I have seen many, many individuals who landed in my care because of their abuse of prescription drugs. In fact, the number rivals those who abuse illegal drugs. And as the hippie generation ages, you can be sure you’ll see the problem with greater frequency. If you have a family member, friend or loved one who you suspect has fallen into the grips of prescription drug abuse, do yourself and them a favor by buying them this book.

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boosy

This is Duke Boosy, the bougiest of them all saying today-
don’t hate on prescription drugs, people gotta pay attention in class somehow.. By the way, Who’s got that ritalin, prozac, vicatin…..so delicious made me forget about that double cheeseburger… hate hate hate hate…lol

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Q.

as a guy that has made money and won awards by creating some of those ads, i will say that the industry is crazy.. from the dollars companies will pay for us to devise a way to get doctors into a room so that they can push their drug over the other, it’s a mess.. the ads are getting worse due to the gov’ts demands on putting every side effect known to man (which is smart, and why they should avoid tv ads all together)..

Malia, i hate those RLS commercials.. how can you take a drug to make your legs stop falling asleep, but if you do you can fall asleep at the wheel of the car? that drug alone should be banned, let alone the ads.. i’d rather deal w/ that tingling feeling than kill myself or somebody else!

we might have gone too far to come back with this whole issue.. once they started giving it to kids like every day was Halloween, it was hard to turn back.. now with patents being shortened more and more so that everybody can make money off of it, the generics will end up becoming over-the-counters, and then Walgreen’s, Duane Reade, CVS, Rite-Aid, etc, will be the biggest drug dealers ever.. theft would be at an all-time high, and 2010 will look like a scene from 28 Days Later..

i’m just sayin’..

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BrokenSilence

Hello to All!

I enjoyed reading this article and everything stated is so true. I believe that we as American have become so lazy to the point where we just one a pill so solve our problems. 99% of health issues that we’re ‘inflicted’ with are actually stress related. If we would take better care of ourselves, we would be able to put the pharmaceutical industry at the end of the Unemployment Line, but we would rather pop a pill that will cure one issue and cause 5 more in it’s place. The objective of the pharmaceutical industry is to keep you sick so they can make money. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t what dope dealers do on a daily basis?

We really do need to sit down and talk to our kids about these things so they will not ‘parish for he lack of knowledge’ and will be able to enlighten others as well.

You All Have A Blessed Week!

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Malia

Q———————

The first time I saw a TV commercial about Restless Legs Syndrome, I just KNEW that it was a spoof. I figured I had stumbled across a prime-time Saturday Night Live special and was seeing a well-done fake ad. It was pretty funny, though — I was like…..Restless Legs Syndrome, Dang! Who thinks of this stuff? Of course, it turned out to not be a joke at all, but rather a pharmaceutical ad — for Requip ((I think)) And then I thought, Now THIS is what Direct-to-Consumer advertising is made for. You make up a disorder, give it an easygoing name like REQUIP, and voila: DRUG SALES.

Makes your job pretty easy, huh????? LOL

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Malia

BROKEN SILENCE ———–

It’s about dang time you stopped peeking in TROUBL and finally broke your silence ((yes, pun intended!!!!)) Girl, I love your post and thank you for the scriptural basis that backs it up!!!! It really does make a difference what we instill in our children…..everything in society isn’t good for them just because BLOW JOE down the street is doing it. We really need to get back to the basics and stop being swayed by evrything in sight!!!!!

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TROUBLMan

The converstion should go like this: Kids, mommy wants to tell you something. I’m a drug addict. You know the pills I pop every morning, those are drugs, legal drug but still drugs.

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Malia

LOL!!!! No TROUBLMan—–you know you wrong for that one…lol……what about those of us who actually need the dang pill? I know my bi-polar a$$ needs to be taking SOMEBODY’S drug, but I like to wing it and go commando! It makes life much more interesting!!!!!!

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ChiCity Star

I don’t think you’re bi-polar. Yes, you do without thinking first, or act impulsively, or other crazy, NOT CONSIDERED NORMAL things….but you did warn us that there wasn’t anything NORMAL about you. It adds to your overall charm…lol…..

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Keene

It’s crazy at the end of each of those commercials, they are always stating the side effects with a very easing voice or rush through them like the dude from the O.G. Micro Machine’s toy commercials. Cuzzo was sick when he used to resite the tounge twister of Peter Piper LOL. More on end as “Oh yeah, you’ll have a larger ‘piece’, but it does come along with headaches, diarrhea, and not to mention a small rash may appear here and there… Oh and if it lasts longer that 4 hours… >PAUSE< 4 HOURS THOUGH??? C’MON SON!!!

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TROUBL

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