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Who Names Our Medications?
a kid learning the alphabet?
I don't usually watch commercial TV except for some sports and maybe one or two programs — and those on a pretty irregular basis. One of my reasons is that there is just so much in the way of advertising for medications and I've had an issue with this for years.
I'm not going into that issue here — that's one of my many soap boxes and I've written about it elsewhere. [Maybe I should go find some of my older writings and revise them for Medium — but that's a project for another day.]
While watching football recently there was some drug being advertised and it made me again think— who the hell names these drugs? They sound like Dr. Seuss characters.
Then my head goes well maybe they're supposed to sound silly so that you'll just want to go eat these things.
Of course if you listen carefully, the contraindications[which usually include warnings of death and more sickness]while you see “happy” people doing “happy” things with families and friends.
The contrast of the visual and the words is something that I find sad, but then I look at the at the names of these drugs and wonder the hell is going on.
