300 Word Response to "Beware of Drug Sales"

In the essay Beware of Drug Sales, Therese Cherry described how drug sales are being so aggressively advertised now days. People cannot turn on a TV without seeing a commercial about prescription drugs. Also, people cannot flip through a magazine without finding out if Claritin is “right for you”. Cherry states that consumers around the globe are taking prescription medication for the disease called life! Stress and anxiety and fat are not necessarily medical problems that require prescription drugs. Yet the advertisements make people believe that they need them. Doctors are not helping this situation either though. They are prescribing the drugs that are more aggressively advertised. The pharmaceutical companies have to know the side effects of these drugs, yet no one who is on them seem to know the side effects. And on some of the newer drugs all of the possible outcomes cannot be known yet. Cherry also states “A business has every right to turn a profit, but should it really be at the risk of good health?” “Without your health, money means nothing.”
I think most people can relate to this essay. I have a television, and almost every other commercial is about a drug. I also have magazine subscriptions, and in those magazines are drug ads. The way these drugs are being advertised can be confusing to me. It makes me wonder what a real medical problem is and what a non-medical problem is.