Drug Usage: Ineffective Effect of Extended Use

We take drugs because we get sick and we want to get healed so that our bodies can return to their normal state of health. That's something great science has done for us. The hidden reality or issue that's mostly not considered is, whether these drugs are taken accurately, according to the right measures. These include the frequency of use, the dosage, the manner of intake, and the lot that speaks in this matter.

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It was a kind of puzzle for me to find out that a continuous, extended use of a particular drug can render it ineffective later on. Such that the body system becomes used to the drug that, over time, it develops a resistance to it, and its supposed duty of fighting the necessary sickness or disease associated with it becomes void. So, it's like just swallowing chemical substances that initiate nothing and cause no needed effect on the body. That's how I see it.

It's a reality though, and I've come to realise that well enough. To my basic understanding of some health-related matters at least, since I'm not a professional. The human body becomes resistant to a drug from its overuse by an individual. And this is why becoming our own doctor or nurse or whatever medical professional when we're not is very harmful.

The thing with this is that, the effect isn't seen in the physical, but a deep systemic action is going on within the body. Okay, perhaps we can realise that when we notice that our consistent intake of a drug that once provided the needed rudiment to a specific illness becomes no longer effective in fighting it. I once thought this was the case with me some years back.

That particular year, I fell sick several times. I did well to go to the clinic since I was in school. School clinics can be defunct, though this wasn't the case. I wasn't tested or made to go through any check-up. Drugs were given to me to take under the “diagnosis” that it was malaria. However, the sickness prevailed. I thought if the drugs were no longer working or something. Only when I went through a test later did I find out it was something else all along.

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I haven't really gone through the issue where my body develops a resistance to a drug due to extended use. But there are stories of these things. Even if these stories were far from me, my little experience shared above aids in the explanation, in a way. It's a big deal then when there's a failure to understand that the drugs kept in that shelf, cupboard or wardrobe－that we run to whenever that symptom shows up－and we take consistently without a medical professional’s discretion can be destructive to our system.

Such an irony, right? The bigger deal for me is the case where illnesses evolve; becoming resistant to the drugs that once conquered them. It's a concern indeed. But as much as it's a concern, science and medicine proves to be a match, somehow. For some sicknesses or diseases, it might not be now, maybe in the near future, but science and medicine provide a way out. So, as much as some illnesses evolve, humanity through science does the same. And I hope it matches up to them every time.

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