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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

US people and Swedish people have very different relations to medication.

Swedes generally undermedicate. I have made a vow to compensate for it and take an aspirin when there's a rational reason to do so. And to keep aspirin and ibuprofen around to enable that. I know the names of paracetamol and ibuprofen because of a catchy song in a popular ad in the 90s.

When I watch some US shows, medical brands are part of the vocabulary and I have to stop and look them up to follow the dialog. The intended audience is so fluent in dozens of brands for various states of mind or body, that a character can go "ugh, I need my $BRAND" and you're supposed to know "oh, he's sad", or "oh, she's jittery for the presentation tomorrow", and I'm probably missing the more subtle "oh, that person is probably taking too much of their $OTHERBRAND".

I think that is the opioid crisis. Not some shady guy in a garage and/or another country responding to the demand.

I think the right balance is probably somewhere in between.

dilbert 1
@clacke We're victims of a predatory pharma system. If you meet a lot of Americans many are hesitant about taking drugs as well. I personally don't like taking things unnecessarily but my health has required a change in that attitude.
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
@sun Is it that people who work in the entertainment industry work under crazy pressure and always keep their purse stocked with stimulant, anti-anxiety, cool-the-stomach-after-all-the stimulant-and-anti-anxiety, and so characters in TV shows do that even if Joe Shmoe doesn't?
Mans R

@clacke @sun I've also wondered if American drugs really come in orange plastic bottles rather than blister packs like everywhere else.

Mans R

@Nudhul @clacke @sun Any idea why? Blister packs seem much safer to me.

Jan 07, 2025, 21:38 · · 0 · 1
dilbert 1
@mansr @Nudhul @clacke easy to see it's a prescription.

some prescriptions do have blister packs but they are still contained in a plastic thingy, like a blue sleeve. I can't find a picture of one.
dilbert 1
@mansr @Nudhul @clacke also the bottles have child-safety lids
Mans R

@sun @clacke @Nudhul Over here they put a sticker on the box.

Blister packs are nice because it's easy to count how many have been taken, and they are tamper-proof.

dilbert 1
@mansr @clacke @Nudhul I think over here it's just a law to do it that way and the law hasn't probably kept up with what's best.
Mans R

@sun @clacke @Nudhul America has a lot of that.

dilbert 1
@mansr @clacke @Nudhul we also have awful inertia on improving things even without laws.
Nudhul
@sun @mansr @clacke i blame the unions for why we still use shitty 3 prong sockets
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
@Nudhul @mansr @sun Just out of instinct, or is there a specific story behind this?
Mans R

@clacke The story is that that account should be ignored and possibly blocked.

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