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My mother is a nurse in hospice care and actually have patients families tell her they'd rather not have their loved ones take 'such and such meds' as they don't want them on drugs!!

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That reminds me of how some companies have jumped on this bandwagon of demonizing chemicals. They tout their products as being "chemical free" or having "no chemicals." Well, guess what?? water is a chemical... is it bad to have water in the product? They are trying to form and reinforce an association in peoples' minds that "chemicals" = toxic and cancer-causing substances.

Similarly, over time the word "drug" has come to be associated with illegal drugs. Certainly, a person who had given up his cocaine habit but still took nexium for his heartburn everyday could still proclaim himself to be "drug-free."

My point after all this rambling is that ...oh hell I forgot.

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