Overmedication: Are Americans Taking Too Many Drugs?

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Musette of LA 6:28PM October 07, 2011

Just because on MD writes a script, doesn't obligate you to take it. If you're getting cholesterol drugs, seek a dietician instead.

What the FDA doesn't want the average *consumer* to understand, is that FOOD - REAL food - not the garbage in brightly colored boxes in the center aisles of stores, is the BEST medicine.

Granted, a lot of those 'consumers' have bad habits and are just plain-out lazy and would rather pop pills mindlessly, but a lot are looking for a way off the chemical treadmill, that seems designed not so much as to benefit the user, but to keep him broke and living in penury for the benefit of the drug companies and their shill MD salesmen.

Make the FIRST thing you say to your MD be "If you are planning on being the drug company vend-o-mat instead of helping me get to the CAUSE of this problem and stopping it, you do NOT get paid for this visit today."

Believe me, that will catch their attention.

Deborah Terreson of NH 1:38PM April 22, 2011

I havent counted the number of prescribed drugs my doctor has told me to take but 15-20 sound rightr. I have no other choice other then to follow his advise. He is know in the community as the "pill doctor". Long as medicare and or tri-care pay the majority of the cost, I aint going to worry about it. Last time i went to the dr office and told him I worried a lot, he prescribed some more pills.

val of MI 8:12PM April 18, 2011

The hospital/doctor ordered Haldol to be given to my 90 year old step father who had been taken to the hospital with just bad constipation/impacted stool.

He tied to the bed, and given Mega doses of Haldol. And basically weakened, left to die in a death spiral. He had only mild to mid Alzheimers but was till very functional before he came to the hospital.

His own doctor was the one who ordered up the mega doses of Haldol.

He was basically left to die. He had been on iv fluids but when his tray of food came to his bed, he was not fed by hospital employees. He was basically unconscious...virtually coma induced by too much Haldol being injected into his arm every 6 hours. He soon became quite frail and incoherent. When the haldol was waning..he would wake up and have moments of clarity.

Haldol is an anti psychotic. They had no business giving it to a frail 90 year old man, no less giving him mega doses of it, and tying him to a bed like a dog.

He died soon after. This was a death induced from poor decisions on his doctors behalf as well as the hospital.

My plea to the public is to please watch your elderly parents closely when they are admitted to the hospital. Especially those over 80 years old. Hospitals and doctors are notorious for mismanagement of geriatric patients.

And beware of the drugs they are giving them?? Drugs on the elderly need to be particularly scrutinized due to their advanced age and frail physical stature.

Bonnie of NY 8:45AM April 13, 2011