ESCAPING THE DRUG TRAP
Assuming you are taking one or more OTC medications, which were not prescribed by a physician, the choice to stop using them is entirely up to you.
Before continuing to take any type of drug, you may want to ask yourself these questions:
Why am I taking this medication? Is it really necessary and do 1 really need it? What would happen if I did not take it? What alternative therapies might be more effective, less costly, and free of destructive side effects? For example, before continuing to take a tranquilizer, have you considered such alternatives as exercise, deep breathing or deep relaxation:—all much more effective, safer and cheaper than any drug?
These questions are not intended to discourage you from seeing a doctor, or from taking any drug that is really necessary. Obviously, some people are entirely unsuited to any form of therapy but drugs.
The idea is to get you thinking about stopping any drug that is not really needed. It is essential to try to minimize intake of every type of drug, because drugs may inhibit the effectiveness of natural therapies. Again, if you are taking a drug, it is difficult to assess the effects of behavioral medicine.
Meanwhile, if you must take drugs:
• Always take as few as possible.
•Ask for the minimum effective dosage for the shortest period of time.
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