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embarassed said:
Our nation is definitely being overmedicated, not just with psychiatric drugs. I'm also bothered by the number of people who take drugs to lower blood pressure, cholesterol, or blood sugar.

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">I feel that way too. It seems like doctors really push their pills on you (quick fix, they have done their duty). I recently had an episode of atrial fibrillation after surgery--an isolated incident that spontaneously resolved--and now I have a cardiologist and am on BP medication to help prevent future episodes. I think they are overreacting--my BP is not that high and my echocardiogram was normal--but here I am taking BP medicine every day. I'm healthy, goshdarn it! But yeah, it's a pill for everything, even when the risk is miniscule. Before this incident, I was watching my BP, had lost weight, had cut my salt intake and was managing my BP on my own. Now, no matter what my BP, they want me on this medicine. So it does remove the incentive for sticking on the low salt diet, exercising, etc. Because my BP is now artificially low due to the medicine so I can eat more salt. It just seems wacko to me--they've removed the incentive for healthy behavior by giving me a pill.