as I am sure almost everybody has noticed,there is now a great many prescription medications that are being advertised in television commercials.

most of these drugs are for maladies that most people have never heard of,and the manufacturers are just trying to drum up additional sales by telling people that they need to tell their doctor that they might need to start taking these medications for things they didn't even know they had,which is creating a generation of hypochondriacs strictly to increase a pill manufacturers profits.

I have seen pills advertised or everything from 'restless leg syndrome',to 'peyronies disease',which basically tells you that if your penis has a curve in it,you have a serious problem and you had better start taking this extremely expensive medication.

every one of these medications also potentially comes with lots of serious side effects,as I am sure that everybody knows,since they ALL have a LONG list of side effects that they have to list on the commercials.

PLUS,besides the commercials for the MEDICATIONS,there are ALSO an abundance of commercials for ATTORNEYS,trying to drum up business for themselves for these medications that,after further research,have been discovered to be very dangerous,and responsible for all sorts of terrible,and life threatening illnesses in the people who have taken them!

I think that YOUR DOCTOR should bethe only one that tells you that you have a medical problem that requires prescription medications,ESPECIALLY if it is for something that has never caused you any pain,or discomfort,and that you had no prior knowledge of it before you saw their commercial,which are designed to prey on people's ignorance,and turn them in to hypochondriacs.

MOST of these medications are things that the doctors already know about,thanks to the relentless pharmaceutical representatives,and a reputable,licensed physician has the knowledge to know WHEN/IF they should be prescribed to someone,but the pharma reps are federally prohibited from doing unethical things to make THE DOCTOR push these potentially harmful medications onto people who don't really need them,but these commercials are nothing but a way for the big pharma companies to run an end-around to bypass these rules that are in place to protect us from unknowingly potentially harming ourselves,strictly in the name of corporate profit,and unethically make people who don't have the knowledge that a licensed physician has decide that they should take these potentially dangerous prescription medications.

we are the only nation in he world who allows commercials like these to be aired on television,and in the media!
what do you think about these commercials for prescription medications?
do you think they are necessary?
ethical?
safe?
and,should they be outlawed in the name of public safety,like the commercials for potentially harmful things like cigarettes were?

what do you think?

Getting prescription meds, without proper medical advice, as in face-to-face, is downright dangerous. You can lie about your medical history in order to get a higher dose or even forget about side effects/contra indications

I take enough drugs as it is.. prescribed, they just keep throwing pills at a problem that if drugs hasnt helped since 1988, chances are they aint going to work, so why worry about something i know i dont have a problem with and dont need their penis straightening pills.. ill live with my curve, it dont hurt me, and its not peronies, or ponies.. or pepperonies, or whatever ya said..

It just shows how big business prescription drugs are if they can spend all that money to Advertise when only Dr.s can give prescriptions...

Myself every time I come home with meds that was prescribed, after doing the research I refused to take due to all the side effects they could cause, funny how I'm just fine without them...

Fixing to be 60 and I take no meds at all on a regular bases...... If I hurt I take what I need at the time...

You can't always trust your Dr knows best....

Women that go through menopause they want to put them on all kinds of meds... I refused those when that time came and took natural stuff to stop the effects of menopause... here is it 10 years later and when my Dr looked at my chart and said ohh see you already went through the menopause did you take anything during that time told them only natural.. And her words were good it is best not to if you can avoid them..

Too many Dr's are prescription happy.... so always do the research... prior to taking meds regardless what your Dr gives you...

Well, they removed cigarette, cigar and pipe tobacco commercials.
They reduced the frequency of alcohol commercials.
Chances are, they will eventually do away with pharma commercials too.

The problem isn't the item being advertised as much as it is the sheeple mentality of the consumer that makes the commercials and effective method of revenue generation. People are easily deluded.

People see so many commercials and advertisements anymore, I'm surprised they are able to think at all.
You are fed just enough information to get you interested so you will buy that product (or idea) and find out.
The same thing is done by the NEWS agencies. They sell you an idea about how this should be or how that is wrong and affects you and people get all worked up over it.
If the people are worked up over one thing, they are not looking at other things. Sheeple Syndrome.

Repetition helps build discipline. I often wonder if the discipline that people adopt are their own choosing or something forced on them by the media?

I see very few commercials. I don't watch TV, I don't listen to the radio, I don't see ads on websites and if an ad gets thru, I pay no attention to it.
When waiting to see the doctor the TV is blaring and people are locked onto it or watching their phones. I sit and look at those people and watch their faces. Its amazing just how many people react to commercials. You can see their expressions go thru a range of emotions.
Its pretty sad really.

Turn off the TV, put down the phone and start interacting with the world around you.

Tom....

Oxycodone

Now here is a drug that was known from day one to be highly addictive. yet it was manufactured by the pharmaceutical companies and passed FDA. Then pushed by doctors

The world did not need this pain killer. we had enough already

It was sold for one reason..greed. knowing full well people would get hooked on it. Which they did in record numbers. People's lives were ruin. People graduated from this to heroin..and countless people. Died.

Who is responsible?
the pharmaceutical companies. The FDA. And rouge doctors.

I feel that people who knew and let it get out to the public should be held accountable..to include jail time