Seems to me there are several ways around this,
not the least of which is to see what heppens when you go without these
'compounds.' You haven't died yet, I assume, so how do you know for sure?


katysails wrote:
There's more truth than you know in that statement. When we take in an admission, the resident is often on a drug regime that would intimidate most people. We have had admissions with people on from 20-30 drugs.

A lot of people are walking chemical experiments.

Does the FDA mandate testing drugs in combinations? No.

Do drugs interact with each other, or cause bodily reactions which change the body's reaction to other drugs? Absolutely.

Do we have any idea what the effects of all these drug combinations are? You gotta be kidding.

Most people would rather take a lot of drugs, and complain about how much they cost, and not feel good much of the time, instead of making changes in their lives & their habits to become healthier.

State nursing home law mandates that we start weaning. It's amazing what happens. We usually get the person down to 5-6 necessaries and voila!

their health improves.

Very sensible IMHO. BTW are you sure you're not violating HIPPAA rules in joining this discussion


... Part of that problem, and part of the problem why there are medical accidents, is that people go to more than one doctor and use more than one pharmacy. The right hand does not know what the left is doing and the people begin to medicate themselves to death. When they arrive at a nursing facility, everything is placed under the jurisdiction of the medical director and one pharmacy...they begin the process. If it's cardiac drugs Vito's on, much can be done to eliminate there necessity
by diet and exercise. He is probably a diabetic, though, and is referring to his insulin. He mustn't tamper with that one.

True enough, but a proper diet can still help.


At least not until they figure out how to do a pancreatic transplant or find a way to make stem cells regenerate pancreatic tissue. (i can say that now that I have been informed that you can get stem cells in your own body and don't need the assistance of an unborn baby).

I don't understand why anybody is against stem cell research. Are you against the space program too? If God didn't want it to happen, She would have made it impossible in the first place.

We will see regeneration of tissue within a decade or two, provided we don't see a major collapse of science programs. Of course, it may happen in Australia or China or Poland, rather than the USA, if this country continues it's current trend of trying to turn back the clock to about 1680.

Back to the drug thing, why do the same people who want to fight a "War On Drugs" also want the gov't to subsidize mass hypochondria?

Boats are fine, it's people that I can't figure out!

DSK