Them & Us – & Doing Drugs

The enormity of the drug problem in the world today, the apparent lack of effective solutions and answers has caused many people to engage in the primitive, and effective, psychological defense of “splitting” the good from the bad, based upon a “them (bad) and us (good)” mentality. With more than half of the world “doing drugs” in one form or another, it is time to get together...

Prescription Drug Kiosks, Ontario

After several years of testing and trialing, the concept of artificial vending machines for the sale and distribution of prescription medications has finally been given the go ahead in Ontario, Canada. There are intended to be some forty kiosks set up throughout Ontario province to service the needs of patients for non narcotic routine medications. In remote areas drug kiosks will make medications more readily...

Nutritional Deficiency and Drug Use

The impact of drug use on nutrition is one of the adverse side effects that fails to get a mention in standard drug warning lists. With drugs so widely and commonly used in modern healthcare practice, we have become familiar with the fact that drug use has adverse side effects. We accept that when we use a drug to achieve a primary purpose, such as pain relief, that there is always a number of adverse “side...

Tiger Moms and Infant Drugs

At the beginning of this year, Amy Chua published a book, the Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – a non-fiction autobiography that rigorously exposed a strict and disciplinarian style of parenting, as practiced by Amy Chua on her daughters. The book drew widespread criticism of Amy Chua’s parenting style – some denouncing it as barbaric and cruel. Yet, beneath the surface of a mother – daughter...

The Diversion of Prescription Drugs

Diversion and abuse of prescription drugs is becoming more of a problem as society in general becomes more dependent on drugs. The problem will continue, and intensify the more reliant we become upon the use of pharmaceutical drugs in the practice of modern day medicine. Until authorities re assess and modify their blind acceptance of and financial support for endemic drug use in healthcare, society can expect to...