Drug companies should not advertise their drugs on tv to the public. If they advertise, it should be only to the ones prescribing the drug. The reason why these drugs are advertised to the public, is to bring public awareness to the drug, and to the doctor by you. Because if you ask your doctor: "should I take this drug?", the doctor, who seldom knows anymore about the drug than what a drug rep may have told the doc, may say yes. And the doc may prescribe it on that simple knowledge, and simply because you brought it up.
We know beyond a shadow of any doubt, taking drugs leads to health issues, sometimes quite a ways down the road. Sometimes within minutes. And yet, you go in for a diagnosis of something that showed up in your health a little while after the drug, is the doctor going to realize that drug could be the reason why you now have this health issue? Probably not. They are not taught to diagnose drug side effects. They are taught to diagnose symptoms. Major difference there. My advice is to do what you can to stay away from drugs, and learn from someone like me, to show you how to avoid them altogther. Especially things like Ritalin, Chemo, Paxil, etc.; and actually lose the problem they are simply treating the symptom of.
If you are one who believes chemo and radiation are the way to go if you find you are told you have cancer, read this story.
