In this day and age?!


Question: In this day and age!?
why is it that in this day and age everybody is obsessed with drugs, weather it be prescription or illegal!. for example if someone has a sore head, back or stomach the pop a pill to help take the pain away or if someone wants to forget the troubles of life they snort some cocaine!. in the olden days they didnt take paracetomal for sore heads they just let them pass why dont we!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Because our culture has brainwashed us into thinking drugs are the answer!. Doctors like to force medications down our throats, pharmaceutical companies desensitize us with their endless commercials, etc!. Although in the olden days you could just go buy opium off the shelf at the store or cocaine in a soda!. All in all, prescription drugs are marketed to us so the health care industry can make more money!. People believe they can fix all of their problems with a pill!. As for illegal drugs, I would say that they are more readily available!. People try to medicate themselves because the world really isn't that happy of a place!. Kids become so desensitized to drugs through television shows, movies, and music that they don't really consider them a big deal!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Because we're conditioned to instant gratification - drugs provide fast relief of symptoms!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

because in this day and age we have such things that are affordable to us allWww@Answer-Health@Com

Because we have the opportunity to do so!.

They didn't have such opportunities in the olden days!Www@Answer-Health@Com

I think people have begun to use medicine as an excuse to cure all there problems!. I understand our life span has grown dramatically over the years but I honestly don't think half the things doctors suggest are really for our health!. America as a country makes a lot of money off of health care!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

they only didn't take paracetamol because it didn't exist!. if it had existed i'm sure people would have taken it, better that than live in pain!.

as for illegal drugs, thats a different matter!. Although such drugs certainly existed in the past, they probably just weren't as easy to get hold of!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Because the NHS is free at the point of sale, and most people want anything for free!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

Coz people pressure each other into taking them!.
I think they have got the 'screeming ad dabs', I mean not happy in themselves!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

because we are a very spoiled generation!. Theres no use in telling someone to handle the pain when they can take a pill for it!.!.!.but taking drugs is something else!.!.it starts with fun, and then people use it to forget their pains if they even have real ones!. Its not going to solve the problems, but theyll go away for a little whileWww@Answer-Health@Com

the world has progressed and people have hectic lives!.!. Everything is way faster the b4!.!.!. To make things calm in their crazy lives people have found new ways to ease the pain!.!.!.!. It does not matter whether its right or safe!.!.!. so long as it eases the pain!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

No, in the 19th century they could legally buy laudanum (an opium drug) cocaine (coke and pepsi used to contain it) plus marijuana!. Laudanum was given to babies for teething and cause many infant mortalities!.
Queen Victoria took marijuana for period pains!.
Its is not true that we are more nesh than the ancestors, its is just that we are more savvy than they are about the side effects!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

how far back are ya going!?!? If your going back to caveman days,well,they did'nt have the stuff we have today!.We dont have to suffer!. Why would'nt you want to take an aspirin if you have a headache,or backache!?!?As far as the cocaine goes,all people had to do back in them days is buy a dagone coke!.I wished I did live back in those days!. I'd be buying me a keg of coke every week-end!. lolWww@Answer-Health@Com





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