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Originally Posted by DrPhil
The average family can barely afford medical services and neither has the time nor the money to seek different medical opinions. This is especially the case for foster children. I refuse to believe that so many children actually need these prescriptions. The prescription drug industry has boomed in the past 20 years. A review of the history of illicit and prescription drugs speaks to the different reasons for such a boom, including capitalism.
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I think these are valid points, and I think they point to bigger problems. And I'll also agree that as a culture we've bought into the promise of pills fixing everything.
But still, I think the conversation needs to be about the problem of
overprescribing, not about the terribleness of prescribing at all. Sometimes, it is appropriate.
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