However, your real enemy is the doctors who use this medical as a weapon to get the money out of you.
some of the 'family clinic' doctors that own their own stripmall clinic end up being 'pillmill's just selling anything they can.
they are a completely different category of doctors to the medical profession in hospitals.
if a 'clinic' doctor has given you several varieties of medication but you never had any tests/scans/ blood draws to get a full diagnoses then its time to change your clinic doctor
EG if your on painkillers for a bad back. and after a couple weeks the pain is still there and you are not getting a scan to find out if its bone, muscular or nerve caused damage. then find a new doctor.
some painkillers numb the mind to make you not know/care about the damage. but the damage is still occuring and getting worse
EG if back is imflammed. having a anti-inflammatory would be better than high dose (nearly narcotic) pain killers. but even with anti-inflammatory its best to find out why its inflammed to get to the underlying cause
if your on antidepressants for months with no support to find if the underlying cause is biological or environmental (bad life experience vs hormonal imbalance) then change your doctor
yes some might have a biological factor thats chronic(lifelong) and meds are needed for life. but if you are just given pills just because you mention a problem. but dont have tests to diagnose it. then you might have a treatable thing that can be temporary but instead are just given different meds to make the issue feel like its gone, but still there untreated for life.
some people think that all doctors are pillmills. but the truth is a pillmill professional is salesman. not a doctor
learn to not think of the word doctor as pillmill profession. learn that a pill mill profession should not be treated as a doctor
EG back pain. but told to get yourself a massuease instead of an xray. you can spend months geting a back massage for temporary relief but still having the pain come back. or you can find out the cause and get proper treatment