They all use the VC to describe drug addiction as due to our weak will power. The drugs are addictive and once we take them, we start being addicted to them. There is a whole industry built on addiction. I have no idea whether it has so far made a dent in relieving the addiction they describe.
The VC I describe is not restricted to addictive drugs. It applies to all synthetic drugs used in therapy because, being made from toxic petroleum, they are brand-new to our planet, hence inherently toxic. Natural herbs and traditional medicines have no manmade chemicals in them. Whatever chemicals therein have been with us since we appeared on this planet eons ago. And our traditional medicines have been developed by our ancestors through trial and error over generations based on keen observation, experience, and accumulated wisdom.
Hence, modern synthetic drug therapy (with its scientific deficiencies) and traditional medicines developed by our ancestors (without a dose of ‘forced science’) can be used together with complementary benefits.
The United States of America may be still the richest country in the world, and we believe we are still the world’s most advanced in health sciences, yet our health in recent decades has not ranked even among the world’s healthiest 30 or 40 nations. Don’t you think with our wealth and advanced sciences, we should at least rank 2nd or 3rd or even 5th among the world’s healthiest nations? But 40th or further down?!
Maybe over the past several decades, we have become less educated and less civilized than most other modern and democratic countries like Scandinavian, European countries, and Canada. Being ‘educated and civilized’(?), our legislators have voted themselves all the benefits, (incl. free healthcare), but excluding us citizens they are supposed to serve. They also voted themselves lifelong service. When did they do all these? Also, when did they allow the gazillionaires who own our drug therapy’s VC (a perpetual fountain of gold for them) and for their interdependent industries (like insurers, promotors & advertisers) to openly push their drugs on us on our living-room TV and exploit our already poor middle class, not to mention our dirt poor? What happened to our country? It is obviously not democratic anymore.
As patriotic Americans, we should each try our best to do our relevant part. That’s why for years I have been advocating improving our health using practical ‘scientific’ modern synthetic drug therapy (with deficiencies), combining it with our tried-and-true traditional medicines, to make us well and whole again. Either one won’t do it because synthetic drugs are always toxic while traditional medicines are not specific chemical-based to be deemed ‘scientific’ by our drug scientists in charge. In fact, some of my drug-trained colleagues used to call them non-scientific or even voodoo. None seemed to be around anymore because I don’t hear anyone denigrating traditional medicines or herbs in recent years. Younger than me, the handful of them must have died (or no longer lucid) some years ago, succumbing to the prolonged debilitating effects of synthetic drugs and additives that they had been taking.