StrangeButTrue said:

I've seen Gwyneth Paltrow's mom in drug commercials on tv, a person on a drug walking across a cartoon bridge holding the hand of a giant pill in a drug commercial, and now Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" was in a drug commercial I saw this evening. I dig the Mac but it's sorta ironic and fucked up isn't it? Fleetwood Mac music selling pills during the news. . Why do u think are there so many drug commercials on tv that are for super specific audiences? This is a relatively recent development. There are even lawsuit for pill commercials that run on the other over the air networks alongside them. I don't have any prescriptions and I can't say I know of anyone else's prescriptions but has a TV commercial pitch ever inspired u or someone u know to change their regimen in a positive way? I'm always telling folks to not take so many prescriptions even my grandmother is on one of those mood pills these days. My mother told me and I was surprised but not as some doctors are sorta the new pushers. I try to pressure her to keep asking if and when to stop or lower the doses. People are doing the most with legal shit it seems.

Totally fucked! I hate that commercial...and all the other ones using some of my favorite songs from way back when. I understand that old bands need to make money but not off the corprorate pill pushers. Pisses me the fuck off! Especially the ones that have a cartoon character accompanying the patient in the advert... Do med-cos really think that older people are that ignorant, demented, or juvenile?!!! Puh---leaaaaaaaaaaaase!

StrangeButTrue said:

I've seen Gwyneth Paltrow's mom in drug commercials on tv, a person on a drug walking across a cartoon bridge holding the hand of a giant pill in a drug commercial, and now Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way" was in a drug commercial I saw this evening. I dig the Mac but it's sorta ironic and fucked up isn't it? Fleetwood Mac music selling pills during the news. . Why do u think are there so many drug commercials on tv that are for super specific audiences? This is a relatively recent development. There are even lawsuit for pill commercials that run on the other over the air networks alongside them. I don't have any prescriptions and I can't say I know of anyone else's prescriptions but has a TV commercial pitch ever inspired u or someone u know to change their regimen in a positive way? I'm always telling folks to not take so many prescriptions even my grandmother is on one of those mood pills these days. My mother told me and I was surprised but not as some doctors are sorta the new pushers. I try to pressure her to keep asking if and when to stop or lower the doses. People are doing the most with legal shit it seems.

the answer is simple: CAPITALISM!!!

it's all aimed at the consumer who just happens to be the worker

tryin to climb the ladder with the capitalist who have no intention

on separatin with their hoarded monies and power...

none of what you bring up is 'new' to westernized countries...

I saw that and didnt like it. Using that song for the wrong reasons.

morningsong said:

morningsong said:

most times i don't notice those commercials until they start rattling off the long list of side effects. Good lawd I cringe.

The side effects sound worse than the conditions the meds are supposed to treat!