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capture world markets. Drug
industry advertising taught millions
to equate feeling well and healthy
with the taking of pills and drugs.
Alcohol industry advertising
equates drinking with success for
both men and women. Unfortu–
nately these advertisemen ts tell
only the temporary "benefits," not
the ugly side effects that can occur
with many drugs, or with misuse of
alcohol. Usually it is only doctors
who (sometimes) have advance
knowledge of these.
Harried doctors, however, often
allow themselves to fall into the
habit of prescribing potent drugs as
an easy way to treat patients. With
mounting case loads of (in reality,
largely emotionally induced) ill–
nesses, many physicians spend only
a few minutes with each patient.
Medica! men admit it is easier and
more economical to reach for the
prescription pad instead of taking
the time-consuming step of deter–
mining the root cause of their
patients' anxieties or wrong living
habits.
Patients are also culpable for
modern drug abuse trends. Many
are not looking for the cause of
their problems. They have come to
believe it is their right to receive
immediate relief from whatever
problems-mental or physical–
plague them. They don't want to
change wrong habits of thinking or
living.
The Physidans' Desk Reference
lists more than 2,500 medica! drugs
on tbe market. ls it any wonder
modern nations are drug-inundated
cultures? Each new generation
growing up in this environment is
more conditioned than the one
before it to expect chemical solu–
tions for whatever bothers them.
Why the Surprise?
During the 1960s and 1970s, the
public and media in Western (even
sorne developing) nations were
shocked at the drug explosion in
youth culture. They shouldn' t have
been.
What the adult establishment
overlooked was the chemical explo–
sion in their own ranks since World
War
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Nobody, it seems, foresaw
the consequences of Mr. and Mrs.
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