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It seems like every few commercial breaks there is a commercial for drugs. I wonder what type of revenue this brings into the companies? And like advertisements for law-firms 20 years ago was considered taboo you now have commercials that say, call 911 and than call us next to clean up the mess. Yep, it was on there.

In the beginning of the seventies cigarette commercials were banned. Why 30 years later does the media think it is okay to advertise pharmaceutical drugs on television? Drugs are drugs. And a bottle of Ambien can kill you quicker than cigarettes.

The first point I want to bring up is that drug commercials motivate people to think that they might have an issue or health problem that is not even a reality. Anti-depressant medications are flamboyant on television and it is very depressing enough we have to see these commercials let alone have some person attempt to make their own diagnosis for a depression problem. LIve is depressing in a lot of degree's, so can we assume we need a pill when we feel a little blue. Keep watching the commercail and you might. Giving a person insight to medical calamities they think they might or genuinely have thus also would give them the right to know exactly how much of this drug they need. Can they make the decision?

There is a reason that students go to medical school for 8 years or more. There is a reason that these people should only exclusively make these conclusions. Case in Point; I live with a person with a genuine bi-polar disorder. It is unnecessary to get into the circumstances regarding this however since these commercials have come out on television there are a lot of people that think that a friend or loved one has a Bi-polar disorder simply because of simple moods swings, a mild change in behavior or just a slight change in a voice tone. And than, "Oh my God, she's bi-polar" The medical problem of a person being Bi-polar is so over used it is insane. If a person is genuinely bi-polar, trust me you will know it. You will think you lived with someone one day and than died and went to hell the next.

E.D. That's another interesting one. Did we ever hear of this 10 years ago? How do you explain what this means to your 6 year old daughter that just happens to be watching television at the moment that bloody commercial comes on? "Mommie, what is E.D.?" I really think that any attractive hard body female that is 20 years old and petite dressed provocatively can snap any man out of E.D. E.D. might be nothing

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