Persuasive Essay: The Dangers And Uses Of Prescription Drugs

Drugs! Prescription drugs to be exact! They are essential to living just as water or food are. You may or may not know that prescription drugs are a very controversial topic in today’s society. Many concerns for consumers and producers can be given to shine a light on this disputable topic and there are needs to each. How much should a pill or other form of drug cost? What are the benefits that come with the currant prescription drugs? Is pizza Italian or American and will society ever make up their mind? Two of these questions will be covered and much more will hopefully be cleared up by the end. Every fact is backed by reputable sources and is cited in a correct manner. Now, who here has eaten food? Hopefully all of you or you would be dead. I’ll ask another question… who here has taken a prescription drug in their lifetime? Same amount right! That’s because prescription drugs are vital to your health and sometimes a home remedy of eating garlic on a cracker just doesn’t do it. Now I will show

Producers work to formulate and distribute prescription drugs with diverted intentions. The authors GlaxoSmithKline state “…they turn these high prices into research toward new cures for diseases. It’s true, we in the U.S. seem to pick up most of the research tab for the rest of the world”. In this instance we get a tasteful sense that not all the money used for prescribed drugs are just baked into the profits. There stands a prodigious sum being flung into research and that may perhaps be a cause for the extraordinary drug costs. In the editorial, “The True Cost of Health Care”, “There is an estimated 800 billion put into disease research”. There is a gnawing realization that the medicinal companies pay for the research to discover more drug ingredients and cook up additional cures for these