Have you ever wondered what they were thinking when they decided that pharmaceuticals could advertise on television? Next to political ads, that are nothing more than well organized bickering, the drug ads are the Mount Vesuvius of grotesque information overload. Why do I, someone who has no intention of taking medication for “ants in your pants syndrome”, have to hear about the fact that it may cause depression, constipation, acne and excessive belching? Are these weird ailments actually affecting the population in the epidemic proportions implied? Whatever happened to the days when people dealt with their sleeplessness by getting up and cleaning the kitchen floor and taking a few gulps of Benadryl? We have become a society of complex anxieties and it is a conundrum of our own doing. And do we think its just coincidence that overactive bladder became rampant right about the same time that Starbucks took over the universe? Think about it.
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