People will take desperate measures to be thin. From going under the knife to going on crash diets, people are going to extremes—the new trend—taking off label medication.
The Today Show’s Matt Lauder covered this desperate-to-be-thin trend early this morning. The trend, doing more harm than good, entails taking various mixtures of pills to curb appetite. Doctors are prescribing mixed “cocktails” ranging in ingredient from anti-depressants to anti-seizure pills.
Taking off label medication has been shown to work for some, but serious side affects can be experienced. Patients have been known to have adverse affects from these pill concoctions, from balding to sporadic body numbness.
The real question is, how the hell is this legal? I was under the impression that doctors prescribe specific medications like anti-depressants to help, I don't know, DEPRESSION. Legitimate doctors are prescribing drugs intended to help serious medical conditions for weight loss?
Doctors should be using their practices to take on more serious medical conditions, not to humor the desperate-to-be-thin fanatics. It is disappointing that dru
gs intended for serious medical conditions are being frivolously distributed for weight loss. These same drugs can be given to those who need them the most. Millions of people, mostly in third world countries, do not have access to needed drugs because of a lack of government infrastructure and funding. But we, shallow, Americans are using them to curb our hunger in order to look like Nicole Richie.How far will we go for beauty I wonder, and how far will doctors go for money?
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