The Pros And Cons Of Prescription Medicine

When you walk into a doctor's office you expect to receive treatment for your ailment and walk out. In a few weeks with proper rest and medication, you're back to normal, except you're not. The pain never-ceasing, you're forced to live the remainder of your life on prescription drugs. The blame should not be placed on the doctor's, but rather the pharmaceutical industry. Profiting on system preservation and disease control, these companies are creating addictions by treating a patient with a disease that will never be resolved. Once healers now stealers, pharmaceutical companies are prescription thugs.
Prescription and thugs are not two words that come to mind when thinking about health care. Instead, these words relate to medicine. Doctors
which represent a culture of health and healing along with relieving illnesses and giving a people a second chance at life. The truth is that doctors are just puppets and medicine is not just a cure in the grander scheme of business. A global phenomenon bringing in billions of dollars, the pharmaceutical industry is banking on peoples health. Prescription thugs describe these companies by the way they work and maneuver around the system. Pharmaceutical companies use manipulative tactics to endorse drugs to average citizens through media propaganda and playing on the government weakness of greed.These companies do not regret infiltrating society in a negative manner. Not concerned with the health of the person, but rather the health of the population leaving the individual lost and addicted. With more people being put on medication every day the pharmaceutical industry's wallet grows gigantic (“Big Pharma: Are They Advertising Addiction?” 1).
The definition of a prescription according to the Oxford English Dictionary is an instruction written by a medical practitioner that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or treatment.
Thug is a word described by the Oxford English Dictionary as a violent person, especially a criminal. Prescription is a widely familiar word in the medical sphere , but rarely paired with the with the word thug. A criminal nature is not something you associate with the medical industry. Healing has turned into robbing the good of humanity. Obtaining trust in a doctor has become increasingly hard to find when someone is constantly pulling at their strings. In the early formation, practitioners sought cures and treatments for the sick whereas now medicine has become a game of
politics.
When envisioning the word thug, your mind thinks of a person on the street with their pants hanging low, smoking a cigarette, and gold chains wrapped around their neck. You would never imagine a thug as a person dressed in a $200 suit, sitting behind a large, mahogany, desk with a family at home. Pharmaceutical companies are playing games on human's well-being. American citizens are being used as the pieces shuffled around the board earning the players billions of dollars by the second. The reason is that America is the national leader in drug consumption worldwide. In America, pharmaceutical companies are drug dealers for the common person.
The United States of America makes up of 5% of the global population, yet we utilize 75% of the world's prescription medication.
In 2015, the money spent on prescription drugs reached $457 billion and by the year 2020, it will be over $610 billion.They are selling addiction through prevention and becoming one of the most powerful industries in the world. Feeding into the world market, pharmaceutical companies stocks are at an all-time high. Unlikely pill poppers are funding a world unknown to them. The dramatic increase in revenue is due to the soaring price of medication. Pharmaceutical companies are using the money earned from medication sales to aid in the United States Food and Drug Administration's yearly budget. Other parts of the earnings cover the cost of scandals from fraud, embezzlement, lawsuits, and more (Llamas 1-2). Prescription thugs are intensifying in danger and cunningly deceitful in
business.
Be careful next time you enter a doctor's office because you might end up as the next victim in the pharmaceutical industries game. Trapped, never able to escape from the pill-popping cycle. Educate yourself and learn from other's past experiences. Do not get swindled by the prescription thugs!