RX Nation

A while ago in class we watched a clip of Sarah Haskins in Target Women: Medicine. It described America’s commercials to a T. Every other commercial we see is promoting a drug to help cure some illness or aliment we think we might have. We are so bombarded with prescription drug commercials it’s almost sickening. I feel these commercials are contributing to America’s dependency on prescription pills. Doctors have noted that more and more patients are going in and asking for specific drugs. In the past this would have never have happened and patients would not know of specific drugs to use. I can understand the original idea behind this because it lets patients have more knowledge of what their doctor may prescribe to them. But now it has gotten to the point that every other commercial is about depression or asthma. I feel these commercials are fueling the problem America has with prescription drug use. Our own generation has even been called Generation RX because of the availability of prescription drugs and how people abuse them. My high school was defiantly part of this statistic because so many of my peers abused prescription drugs. With so many young adults that grew up in this generation I feel that most of them will become prescription drug dependent and will forever be reliant on drugs to survive. I also think that if pharmaceutical companies began to stop advertising their drugs I feel that the demand for these drugs would lessen. All of that money spent on drug commercials should go towards something more worthwhile like finding a cure for a disease and not let people believe that they need a pill to cure everything.