Lifestyle Drug Affecting Health : Obesity

Many doctors, pharmacists, biochemists and scientific researchers have engaged tremendous efforts to providing drugs and supplements that would help overcome sexual malfunction and ill-health.

“Substance use disorders” or “substance-related disorders” are intended synonymously and are used interchangeably when referring to the broad category of addiction to psychoactive substances. Additionally, the word “drug” should be considered in the context in which it appears and can refer to alcohol specifically and/or other psychoactive substances such as cocaine or heroin etc. Again, this is because of the large overlap within the broader category of substance use and the high prevalence of polysubstance use. For the sake of clarity, “drug” as used in North America to generally refer to any illicit or controlled substance has been avoided. Instead, “medication” will be used to denote a prescribed substance used to treat physical symptoms. However, many legally prescribed medications (such as morphine) can and are abused and have addictive quality, making them just as devastating as “street drugs” or alcohol (Compton & Volkow, 2006).

The safest and often most effective courses of action are normally exercise, nutrition, and work-life balance, but doctors who do not prescribe lifestyle changes instead of drugs would probably soon find themselves out of business. Informed patients who have done research on websites such as WebMD and Rxlist.com believe that they know what drug will best treat their symptoms and seek out doctors who will prescribe what they want. Financial considerations should not be the driving force of medical decision-making. Though tempting, prescription drugs are often not the best course of action to improve health and treat symptoms. Doctors

This distinction, between the legitimate use of psychoactive medicines and the sub rosa use of drugs, is more vexed than ever. We have seen nearly 45 years of the War of Drugs… outcries about the safety of our children and accompanying uproars about nicotine in e-cigarettes, caffeine in energy drinks, “synthetic marijuana”, and heroin… club drugs, designer drugs, experimental drugs, homemade methamphetamine… We have pharmaceutical commercials on TV…to the point that any thinking person would be forgiven for questioning the

Prescription drugs, on the other hand, are medicines that have been approved by the Food and Drug

A drug is any substance that produces a psychoactive, chemical or medicinal effect on an individual. The term “psychoactive drug” is often used to refer to mood-altering drugs. The effect of a drug depends on a combination of three elements: drug (the pharmacological property) set (the characteristics of the user) and setting (the social and physical environment where drug use takes place) (Cheung). Although a drug produces psychoactive effects on the body, the effects, or harms, vary according to user characteristics (set), such as the pattern of drug use, the users perception,of the pleasure and risks of drug use, and the demographic, socioeconomic and cultural characteristics of the user. Higher levels of drug use and drug problems have

Obesity is a condition where the fat in the body is collected and stored in huge amounts. It is the Body Mass Index (BMI) which is the comparison between the weight and the height of a person that would help in identifying obese cases. If BMI's is greater than 25, the person would be called overweight and if it is more than 30 than he would be called obese. Obesity is an issue of public concern because of the threat it has towards the physical and the mental health, to the relationship, development and the overall well being of an individual. It is not only limited to a particular age group, gender, culture or a part of the globe. Instead, every individual is in danger to its bad affects.

The government in today’s world supports the use of these drugs with a prescription from a doctor. If one takes this drug without a prescription it is considered illegal and one can get in enormous amount of trouble with the law. Like the World State, the democratic government today has addictive drugs that are legal. Although we do not really know that they are drugs at all, such as nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine they do have the same feeling of empty happiness. Just like soma, these addictive substances are mainly used to calm one down. Nicotine and alcohol may not have the same consequence as using illegal non-prescription antidepressants, but the idea of escaping one’s problems through substances to make one feel happiness is still a quick fix for long term physical or mental problems or a way to get high. These drugs also hurt the users with addiction, body functions failing and making one violent when under the influence. The use of any drug has severe effects on the users and not only in reality but also in Brave New World.

There are many drugs in the world that can better a person’s health. There are also drugs

In this study, they investigated the social spread of obesity by performing a quantitative analysis on 12,067 people that were a part of the Framingham Heart Study. Longitudinal statistical models were used to assess the effect of another person’s weight gain on an individual. They found that a person was 57% more likely to gain weight if they had a friend who became obese, 40% more likely if their sibling became obese, and 37% more likely if their spouse became obese. Hence, obesity seems to be influenced by social factors. This study seems like a reliable source as it was published by the New England Journal of Medicine in 2007.

The concept of “deprescribing medications” as mentioned in your paper is an interesting topic. This is a relativity new concept that the use of multiple medications that can increase the risk of adverse drug reactions to the patient. When polypharmacy is apparent, the risk of drug interaction falls hospitalization and death can occur. The APN has a role in the medical profession to start a trend of watching over and deprescribe medication for the polypharmacy patients. While compiling the prescribed medication and the medication the patient consumes the chance that they can overlap each other and cause harm is increased. With the elderly population deprescribing by tapering, stopping, and or discontinuing medication

defines the disease, suggesting that the disease is to be defined and interpreted by pharmaceutical

calculate weight-based medications for the obese patient. The patient’s ideal body weight is subtracted from the patient’s actual weight and multiplied by 0.4. Incorporating the obese patients BMI may also be beneficial to more effective weight-based medication dosing despite not being traditionally used to dose medications. More hospitals are utilizing pharmacists with dosing weight based medications using the best known modifications for the elderly and obese. Pharmacists use drug blood levels to dose most appropriately for each individual patient. Additional research is needed to find to most accurate means to calculate weight-based medications for the obese patient as dosing is more complex and results in longer hospitalization.

Western drug overall has never aplogized for it's 'reductionism'. It has offered ascend to exceptional understandings of our bodies and how they work. It has empowered improvement of technological guides that have incalculabe value.

Most drugs can be characterized as following the mass model of health or the individual model of health. However, despite these preconceived categories created by pharmaceutical companies, drugs sometimes do not fall into one specific category. For my informant, her use of Advil combines both health