Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The smuggling and distribution of misbranded drugs and medical devices of uncertain foreign origin has the potential for serious harm to patients.
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
A lot of medicines are not there to cure diseases. That's fine - drugs that keep people alive who wouldn't otherwise be alive are useful. What I object to is the drug companies' advertising, which you see everywhere in the U.S., which claims that they are curing diseases when they're not.
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
Illegal drug use runs contrary to the image of health depicted by cycling. Distributors of these drugs must be prosecuted more harshly as they are ciminals.
Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.
Drug use, within entire teams continues unabated. It is planned and deliberate cheating, with complex methods, sophisticated substances and techniques, and the active complicity of doctors, scientists, team officials and riders. There is nothing accidental about it.
Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.