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Medicine impending danger to the public is that it is going to take over every aspect of our lives.

Medicine

Medicine is the looming giant is our mists. There isn’t a human function that can’t be made better by a prescription. From pregnancy, ADHD, toenail fungus, erectile dysfunction, dry eye, pre-diabetes, pre-high blood pressure, pre-high cholesterol readings, behavior problems, bed wetting, pain relief, sleep aids, acid reflux, depression, addictions, constipation, and rashes.

The recent history of allopathic care is one that has evolved to define and treat everything as a medical problem. Most common conditions can be traced to lifestyle. As such are not meant to be treated as medical afflictions. The medical community is standing guard over every human function by introducing pharmaceutical solutions.

Research Into The Cost    

Researchers, let by Brandeis sociologist Peter Conrad, evaluated 12 conditions that have been medicalized by physical organizations, and for which there were medical spending data. The other conditions considered in the study were anxiety, and behavioral disorders; body image; male pattern baldness’ normal sadness, obesity, sleep disorders, and substance-related disorders.

Conrad and his colleagues analyzed medical spending on these types of problems. The payments to hospitals, pharmacies, physicians, and other health care providers, and discovered that they accounted for $77.1 billion in medical spending in 2005-3.9 percent of total domestic health care expenditures.  

 ”We spend more on these conditions than on cancer, heart disease, or public health,” said Conrad. “While medicalzation is unlikely to be a key driver of skyrocketing health care costs, $77 billion represents a substantial dollar sum.”

The Danger Of This Trend

The danger of this trend is in medicine’s growing jurisdiction.

Children can be taken away from parents and put into the states custody if the parents refuse certain treatments.

There is an increase in consumer demands for medical solutions for lifestyle generated problems. More Americans think that health is in an encapsulated, blister packed, shrink and cello wrapped substance. They want the fountain of youth coming from the latest technology. The new consumers think the right ingredients are in packaged cartons with label warnings. What’s in it  for the pharmaceutical company is unlimited opportunity to boost their bottom line. Novel approaches to health are not in a tube, pill, or formulation.

The pharmaceutical industry is expanding into the areas where they see a potential profit, and where there is the greatest opportunity for growth.

When $77 billion is considered unlikely to be a key driver of skyrocketing health care cost, than the spending is out of hand. Our dependence on a pharmaceutical solution is hands down one of the biggest threats to our physical and financial health.

A doctor squard will take on pharmaceutical ads. A new Federal Drug Administration program will urge doctors to blow the whistle on misleading drug advertisements.

The “bad ad program”

The “bad ad program” announced Tuesday, is “part of the agency’s latest effort to police the pharmaceutical industry’s multi-billion-dollar marketing machine,” The Associated Press reports.

The problem with this is program is The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) let the horse out of the barn quite awhile ago. The barn door is shut tight now, for any real opportunity to return to the way things should be.

Despite, this late and lame effort to curtail the pharmaceutical companies from reaching the TV audience with false and misleading adverisements, they still will have the lion’s share of sales through aggressive marketing.

Drug companies are legally required to present a balanced picture of a drug’s benefits  in promotions. That remains to be seen according to some critics.

Brands are aware of their marketing tactics, despite maintaining their compliance with the law. Drug companies make major investments in promotion drugs to doctors and layman alike.

Drug companies invested $12 billion on promoting drugs to doctors that is three times higher than ads aimed at consumers in 2008. That means they spent $4 billion on selling the consumer on the idea of using their drugs.

Drug Awareness

Drug awareness is really a war against time. The reason is that a pharmaceutical company has a certain amount of time to cash in on a drug. They have the intellectual rights for a certain period of time before it runs out. The other reason is drugs present dangers that will come out before they made their millions in profits.

The only guaranteed protection is consumer knowledge, which means that the citizens believe the only elements to good health is better living. The consumer is boss everywhere but in medicine. Positioning the consumer to emerge as the whistler blower is the best solution.

Doctors can report false advertising, but that will not help allopathic medicine climb up from the brink and make health care relevant.

Stress relief is a pill away according to a pharmaceutical perspective. Global Health Venture, Inc. (OTCBB;GHLV ) (the “company”) has announced that it has targeted the development of a new anti-stress medication “Relax-B” using its proprietary sublingual technology. The company’s lead therapeutic product “X-Excite” (male sexual enhancement drug) is already proceeding successfully through the clinical trials. “Relax-B” is designed to cause relaxation of muscles leading to stress relief. The new product uses an already FDA approved drug with a special formulation at a very low dosage that reaches blood rapidly.

Anti-Stress Market

The anti-stress market is estimated to be over $5 billion and counting. The company has a mission and it turns out to be how much is stress worth. The perpetual conundrums for the consumer is can you identify health problems in the future from this fast fix.

The pharmaceutical companies’ viewpoint is how much resource to allocate for the perceived revenue returns. Consumers must beware of their bias; they view stress and depression as a chronic disease that can involve lifetime intervention. The current anti-stress medications are slow action and may require months to see results. The need for rapid anti-stress medication is highly desirable so is a fast payload.

Anti-Stress Medication

Anti-stress medication takes away the possibility of change. There is a danger of losing direction, changing your life doesn’t mean reaching for a pill. High stress levels may mean your diet isn’t supporting your nervous system, brain, or hormone levels, and you have a poor lifestyle habits. This could include working too many hours, poor relationships, and poor problem solving ability.

Your stress level doesn’t lie, so a pill that protects you from it may decrease your ability to see and find a new way to manage your life. Just because a pill is validated to relieve stress doesn’t mean it is a natural alternative. Being dependent on a drug to help you manage your life isn’t a good strategy.

A better mood, more energy, will not come from a pharmaceutical. We live in stressful times and the stress related conditions are on the rise, from socio-economic problems, constant news coverage, and a feeling that the world is going in the wrong direction.

Anti-stress medication doesn’t balance the sheet; it doesn’t give you an ounce more of control. What is does is swing the pendulum by boosting your feeling of calmness. It doesn’t help you upgrade your actions, optimize your situation, refigure, and refresh your life. Without doing that you will always be a pill away from calm.

Relaxing muscles is not the magic solution to stress. An audit of your life is what stress relief is about. The company goes from “X-Excite” for men to cracking down on stress with a pill. Who will scrutinize this trend, and determine if a growth oriented company is looking out for you. There is contradiction in terms to say that their aim is to dominate the market, and at the same time lifting the mood of people who are stressed.

If you want to get ready, set, and grow emotionally, spiritually, and physically forget the pill and take steps to improve and regulate your life.