Chemical Dependency

We all have the need to feel well. If we don't feel well, the rest of our life seems to unravel around us. On the flip side, if our life unravels around us, it can make us feel ill. This is why pharmacies create pills. When life gets too tough to handle, we've been programmed to take a pill. There's pills for every imaginable ache, pain, or ailment, whether real or conjured up in our head. There's even fake pills to try to trick your body into thinking you're actually getting help from the pill. There's pills to make our children pay attention, there's pills to make adults pay less attention. There's pills to help fix things on the inside, as well as the outside. The only reason I'm writing this, I woke up at 1 AM with a splitting sinus headache. So off to the medicine cabinet for some relief. After taking the proper dosage of the correct medication, I sat in bed thinking of the different chemicals I ingest to keep this body, most of you refer to as "Kevin", going. Advil for the head, aspirin for the muscles, Claritin for the allergies, Tums for the heartburn, inhaler for the asthma, shots for the flu to keep away pigs, birds, and Asians, spirits for the well being of the mind, liver, and soul, coffee to burn off the morning fog, just to name a few. The pharmaceutical companies should have no worries. Billions of people need a little something from time to time, to get us thru to tomorrow. I prefer to self diagnose, and treat multiple ailments with as few pills as possible. If the pill can be taken with a stiff chaser, or better yet, if the stiff chaser can be the 'pill', that would be my first preference. Pharmaceuticals recognize this form of medication and give it the proper credo it deserves. Where can you often go to buy wine & spirits? Would your final answer be the 'drugstore'? Pills and wine. It works for rock stars.