The Legal Drug Problem

We are imprisoning people by the boat loads for selling illegal drugs. There are ruined families and deaths from this worldwide problem. Indeed it is a problem. However, what about the “legal” drug problem in our society? We use to trust and believe that the FDA protected us from legal drugs that would harm us in any way. We took it for granted that they were safe.

The drug companies have become the drug cartels of the legal drug trade, and doctors are their drug pushers. The FDA has somehow faded into the back ground and left us on our own. We see commercials every day on the television, where “new” drugs are being introduced for just about any physical, mental or pain imaginable. At the end of these commercials we hear warnings about how, “this drug could cause blood clots, heart failure, lose of this or that, and a multitude of other side effects INCLUDING DEATH.

We call pharmaceutical drugs, “Medications.” Many illegal drugs are used as medication. It is the “abuse” of certain drugs that makes them illegal. Even drugs sold over the counter such as “Bronkaid” for asthma attacks, can no longer be bought without signing for them. The Bronkaid inhalers that cost only around $12.00, have been removed completely, and one must pay out over $85.00 for a prescription one. The drug companies claim that drug dealers were making illegal drugs from the ingredients.

We are forced to buy the legal drugs when the over the counter ones are not available to us. Sure the illegal drugs can be dangerous. All drugs can be dangerous if not taken properly. Poor people and people with no health insurance can not afford the prescriptions and are at risk of dying for lack of cheaper over the counter drugs. Is the only reason we warehouse drug dealers for selling “illegal” drugs, because they don’t have political connections?