The ethics of doctors handing out meds as suckers at the end of a visit

I think it pretty much goes without saying that we have become an extremely drugged up society. There is a drug for pretty much anything you can imagine, and if you go to a doctor, they’ll find one to fit you.

Have attention issues? Got ya covered.

Feeling down? Pop this in your mouth

Having multiple issues? Take this, and then take this to counteract the effects of that and this.


You just have to wonder the ethics behind drugging up our problems instead of actually learning to overcome and/or live with our problems or struggles in life.


I remember as a kid having what today would most surely be labeled ADD, but we didn’t know what that was. I had a lot of problems in staying focused in class and when reading, getting lost in class, and reading and re-reading things over and over in order to retain it. SO, the folks sent me to a class to learn how to stay focused when reading and listening. After taking the class things drastically improved. I still had my struggles, but overall I learned how to deal with it, life got more manageable, and my performance improved.

Now, if I was simply given a pill and never learned how to overcome it, i would be forever hitched to the pill for the rest of my life, and while that may serve the doctors and pharmaceutical industry, it certainly does me no favors, and so here is where the ethics comes into play here, how crippling people by drugs over people learning how to deal with life and overcome obstacles affects society and the individual, if no other way than simply their pocket book.

This isn’t intended as an attack on people struggling, but rather the ethics behind doing this to society. If people use these pills as a means of learning how to deal with it by means of counseling and/or classes, and then eventually get off of it, that’s great, but we all know that’s not what is going on here overall. Most are just becoming dependent upon pills to live life, and I don’t see how that is a net positive for anyone besides those making a living off of it.