Everyone has a drug probably to one point or another. A drug problem isn’t just the stereotypical crack, heroin and other hard core drugs. A drug problem can be a dependency on any man made substance. It can be the older person to taking the Bayer low dose to a child taking a daily Flintstone vitamin which we all have taken at some point in time in our lives. The yummy little vitamins we all can eat like candy flies under the radar as being a drug addict. Everyone has one of these people in your family or is one themselves.
A hundred years ago or even less you would never see people taking vitamins just to live. It really isn’t necessary. How come people decided all of a sudden people need to take a aspirin or a vitamin or something else? Some people with heart burn have pocket full’s of pills. Instead of just relaxing for a day or two they are sipping some day quill. How could we have gotten to this point in our lives to rely so greatly on medicine. Our body can care for itself. We do or did at one point in time had immune systems.
People want to live forever but is it safe for themselves to take on a drug habit to survive. It does allow people to live long and more healthy lives but what about the environment. Soon, scientist will create a way to lengthen our life to an extreme. With more people in the world then in anytime in history. This means our mother Earth is being destroyed at an alarming rate. How and where is all our water coming from. How and where is our food going to come from? Better yet, where is our garbage going to go? It boggles the mind thinking of.
Something needs to happen in order to live this long drugged up lives. Soon other disturbing things will happen. Humans evolve and soon we will evolve into having no immune system due to the medicine will replace it. It is a crazy thought to think we may soon have no immune system due to the fact we are a medicine dependant animal. Hopefully we all find some kind of happy medium for our children’s sake.
Of course, a 100 years ago you could buy cocaine and morphine over the counter.... Coca-Cola did not get its name by accident! So, times have changed--people know more about nutrition--and those people 100 years ago often got diseases from bad nutrition: scurvey, rickets, pellagra. I'm not sure things were that much better back in the day!
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