I have come to realize...

[Wayne]

As close as I get to reality TV, is Survivor Man, I used to watch Man Vs Wild, until it came out the whole thing was more or less canned,ruined it for me.

I prefer Survivor Man too. And not only because Bear Grills goes to a hotel every night. Survivor Man is out there all by himself; he's his own camera crew and if he gets in over his head he calls for them to come scoop him up. I'm telling you, Intervention is one of the most compelling reality shows you can find. A lot of them are whiny, but they're almost all stories that will draw you right in. These are people who are completely self-centered, who accept no personal responsibility for the situation they are in. But the impact on their families is where you have the meat of the situation.

Like for instance this one where this guy was an alcoholic. He'd been an avid body builder for years and even owned his own gym. But then one of the drugs he used was illegalized and the guy went on a downward spiral. He had a shitty upbringing, of course, and had had to drop out of school to take care of his entire family because his father left and his mother was pretty much useless. He never had a childhood and the guy wound up dying not long after getting booted out of the rehab clinic. The damage had been done; he had bruises all over his body from where the alcohol was wailing on him. Pretty much taking him off vodkie then was pointless.

I swear drug companies should do more research before they release stuff to the general public.
I used to use the hell out of Andro,and got good results from it.
Now its classified as a steroid
It wasnt when I was taking it.
Not only did it screw with my hairline(which is back to normal,thanks for asking) but every athletic achievement I had during that period is now suspect to me.

I understand what you mean, but you do realize that statement is completely laughable. It's the blindfolded leading the blind. They've learned from the cigarette companies well and know how not to know negative effects of their products. I was reading a fiction novel (I lost it somewhere) and one of the characters was researching a drug and the companies immediately began trying to buy the guy off. I know that's not real, but considering drug companies are making money hand over fist I can see this easily happening. Did you know it is illegal in Canada for drug companies to advertise? Why is it legal here? Well, if you think you have the symptoms described you go to your doctor and say, "I want a prescription for this!" And you may well have restless leg syndrome, but you may not and your doctor has one of two choices: give you a couple sampler boxes of the drug he got from the drug rep or tell you know and risk losing you as a patient as you shop for a doctor who will give you a sampler box. I think I may have ADD and I wanted to be tested. I wasn't looking for the drug, I only wanted a test to confirm one way or the other. My doctor at the time wrote me an Rx for a small box after asking me a few questions. Then she left it up to me to decide if I felt an improvement. Drug companies are able to create a market for their wares, rather than creating a drug to combat people's ailments. That's why they can pay multi-million dollar fines when they recommend their drugs to be used for unapproved uses with no problem. That's another thing that's begun. Say Viagra (I'm not suggesting it's true, just an example) has been alleged to clear up acne. It hasn't been submitted to the FDA for this purpose, which would probably take years to test and approve (unlike the current use for Viagra which was pushed through in a matter of months) but based on the strength of whomever's testimony they begin pushing docs to prescribe Viagra for acne. The fed steps in, fines Pfizer $7 mil, but that's not really a hindrance because profits specifically for scripts for Viagra in the cases of patients with acne tower over the meager fine. I can't site numbers as I heard the story some months ago, but this is essentially the gist of it.