The Rx Generation !

In the late 1980's-early 1990s, known as Generation X, they came into their own, cultural and musical movements such as grunge and hip hop came into popularity. This generation saw the inception of the home computer, the rise of videogames, and the Internet as a tool for social and commercial purposes. Dot.com businesses, MTV, Desert Storm, Grunge music, Hip hop culture and AIDS are associated with this generation.

Gen Xers are a culturally tolerant generation that is practical and realistic. Many of them are staunch individualists, having been the first generation of "latchkey kids". Gen Xers are fond of technology, with the Internet and computer science reaching popular culture around their early teen to college years.

With all the new technology coming out, you can still see traces of the Gen Xers, but there is a new generation popping up now that is replacing the Gen Xers. It is the Rx Generation!

You can not turn on the TV and make it through a half hour program, without seeing at least one commercial for some type of pharmaceutical prescription medication. It does not matter what disease you have, they have a cure for it now. Even if you don't have a disease, if you just feel down and depressed, or if you want to enhance your love life, or you what to grow new hair, or if you don't want to get your period every month, well they have a pill for it now!

Now the side effects they may well give you a disease that you will need real medicine for, like kidney failure, high blood pressure, blood clotting, temporary vision problems, and a vast majority of other side effects that make the cure for what you want to change seem not worth the risk. In some commercials I have even heard that the side effects include "In rare cases death" may occur.

Wow, in rare cases death may occur, I don't think that I am willing to take the chance of being the rare case, just so I can cure my lack of hair or the fact that I have an occasional night where I can't sleep.

Now don't get me wrong, the pharmaceutical companies have made some great advances in some fields of medicine with needed prescriptions and medical devices. I have a heart stint in place that removed an 80% blockage and I am on Plavix , that helps keep the blood platelets from forming plaque in my arteries and stint.

But if looking at all of the needless medications that are out on the market, we have become the Rx generation. If nature had intended a woman to have a period 4x's a year, then that is what she would have. What is to say, that in some way the women doing this are in some way harming their systems for the future. Or in some way re-doing their genes to pass a side effect along to a child when they decide to go off this birth-control.

Look at our children today, 1 in 4 children are on some type of ADHD medication. Many of which try to get off the meds and control their ADHD without the use of medications. Some of which are famous people.

Michael Phelps, Olympic Swimming Gold Medal winner, was diagnosed with ADHD and placed on medications, but by his own decision at age 11, he told his mother he was going to go off the medication and control his ADHD on his own, because he did not like the stigma attached with having to go to the nurses office at school to take medication everyday. With his mothers permission, Michael Phelps went off ADHD medication at age 11, and we know the rest of that story, as he now holds many gold medals for the U.S.A. for the Olympic Swimming Team.

So if you can't sleep, get a good book or turn on late night TV, if you can't get aroused keep trying different things till you find something that rocks your socks, if you get your period once a month deal with it. Sure take medication for legitimate things, headaches, blood pressure, diabetes and most other major things you need real medication for, but leave these fad meds alone.

When the history books look back, I would much rather be known as the computer geek Gen Xer than the pill popping Rx Generation!!

Just one man's opinion. As always, put the wind in your hair and keep the sun to your back. Be good and stay safe. Peace, Love and prosperity to all.

Good Journeys !!!

Frank WOLF TM © 2005 Friday July 31st, 2009
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