04-15-2017, 02:27 PM
Society promotes good health as the holy grail of life--the key to happiness.
Medical profession creates many medicines to assist in this.
Including those meds (supposedly) acting on the chemical source(s) of happiness itself.
But if a patient shows a wisp of emotional need to continue taking a medicine...
then we label the medicine a narcotic; restrict access to it; call the patient aberrant...
and finally conclude the patient has a new disease (in need of further treatment, with more medicine).
(Just needed to rant! Thanks!)
Medical profession creates many medicines to assist in this.
Including those meds (supposedly) acting on the chemical source(s) of happiness itself.
But if a patient shows a wisp of emotional need to continue taking a medicine...
then we label the medicine a narcotic; restrict access to it; call the patient aberrant...
and finally conclude the patient has a new disease (in need of further treatment, with more medicine).
(Just needed to rant! Thanks!)