The contradictions of our pill-popping ways…
Posted in Down on the Pharm, Medication Nation on 12 September 2008
YOU MAY HAVE noticed that PillGirlReport has been on hiatus. Why, you ask? MDD—a severe case, as is described in the following video (not to mention other work commitments). Gotta get me some Strivor …
Posted in Down on the Pharm, Medication Nation on 1 February 2008
SIX DIFFERENT MEDICATIONS in one person’s apartment!? It’s hardly as scandalous as reporters implied when Heath Ledger’s drug inventory was made public. In this pillophile nation of ours-where four billion prescriptions are dispensed a year and over 51 million people ingest more than three meds daily—six is hardly outrageous. Certainly not as outrageous as …
Posted in Down on the Pharm, Medication Nation on 16 December 2007
I HAVE LOTS of friends who, perhaps not coincidentally, have lots of pills. Now I’m not saying that my friends are a representative sample of the American public. To be perfectly, perfectly clear, there’s very little that’s scientific about what you are about to read. Still, it may be (slightly) enlightening …
Posted in Down on the Pharm on 15 December 2007
WHY IS IT so much easier to get drugs you don’t want than ones you do? Oh, did I say drugs? I mean, medication, a distinction my therapist insists upon making. ( “I’m going to the medication store”? Whatever.) All I wanted was a refill. My Zoloft had run out and my internist’s office insisted …
