Every 1-2 years we read about diet pills being pulled from the market for their adverse effects. I have to ask myself, why are these drugs even ON the market! And yet, I know the answer to that question, demand. There is a demand for the drug, meaning people are willing to pay for the drug despite the risks.
Why should we blame the pharmaceutical companies? I mean really, somewhere within their literature there must be a warning label. You know that 2 foot long piece of paper that comes inside all the packaging. The one that lists all the "side-effects" and hazards? Yes.
Doesn't that exclude them from any responsibility?! Isn't that enough for someone to at least reconsider taking these drugs? No. No.
We still manufacture them. We still search out and purchase them. We still take them. And we still suffer the consequences.
All because we are not willing to do the work.
My hard-liner feeling...Fine take the drugs. Go ahead. But you assume 100% of the risk. If you die, your estate, your family. your friends you left behind can't sue anyone. You CHOSE to take the drug.
But here is where my basic philosophy on health comes in. "It Takes a Village..." It takes a village for a person to be healthy. It takes each person doing what they need to do to be healthy. It takes a government ensuring that policies are established to protect ourselves from...ourselves, it takes companies truly being altruistically motivated when it comes to the consumers health, not just the "all-mighty" dollar or that quarters profit margins.
It takes everyone doing their share, their part.
When I read articles such as this one year after year, I have to shake my head. Are we so ignorant of our own history to be doomed to constantly repeat mistakes.
Unfortunately, it appears so.
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