Although I intended on writing further on Existentialism this week, I’ve decided to explore the unintended consequences of mass drug-administration.
Not only have we achieved vast strides forward technologically causing unintended issues of over-abundance and comfort but the same can be argued with regards to medicine. Although we are living longer, we now suffer from over-consumption rather than the malnutrition of the past. We now have medicinal antidotes to the majority of our aches and pains. However, it seems that the intended good of these medical accomplishments have unintended consequences. The majority of drugs that alleviate some form of pain are pressing on the pleasure side of the balance meaning that they have addictive potential (1). Thus, the alleviation of one form of pain causes another.