a---ranting we will go, a---ranting we will go, hihothe whatever, whatever, a--ranting we will go.
Just when I think I've seen it all.
I'd gotten used to the constant commercials for the latest drug to give you a seven day erection or dope you and or your kid into submission for that attention deficit nonsense, but I have seen a new one that blew me away.
It's called Avitor or Aviator or Avalon or Avon or hell, as we used to call it way back when...speed. It's an anti-fatigue drug because millions suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome. Uh-huh.
I know how it works too, since I buy drugs for our center (yes I get paid to buy drugs). The companies send their hot sales chickadees out with boxes of free samples and hit the doctor's offices. Next, they run an ad on TV to work the huddled masses into a frenzy. Then they go to their doctors and ask about what they saw on TV. The doctor hands over the sample, eagr to just to make the whining stop and voila, a dependancy on a drug for a non-existant condition is born.
Now, yes, of course there are people chronically tired. But fatigue is a symptom not the problem itself! So maybe if you have a serious problem, a little pick-me up will help you, I can see that.
But the ad shows a woman with 30 kids barely able to stay awake. Maybe, birth control not fatigue is her real problem!
Of course you can't tell someone to get more rest, excercise and eat better, heavens no.
This is what makes my ulcer bleed about the unavoidable fact that we are on a course for free drugs for our freeloading society. Certainly, if part of my paycheck goes to give Aunt Bessie her heart medication, even I am okay with that. But at the same time, I'm paying for Grandpa Joe to run around the nursing home playing peek-a-boo with the staff displaying his "stiffie" from taking viagra. I'm paying for adults who think they need 20 pills just to be able to wake up. I guess that's the hippie generation getting old for ya. Again there are real people with real needs out there and let's help them. But when something is free and somebody else pays for it, it is not longer valued and therefore abused. There are too many people who need nothing more than a healthy dose of self-reliance and responsibility. Besides in my opinion there's no ache or pain that can't be licked with a couple aspirin and a shot of whiskey. Heh.
Now if they had a pill that would bring common sense back to people. There's a pill I could get behind.