[SamAdams76]

I'm in my 50s but have yet to take prescription drugs. Now I've had some short term prescriptions over the years such as for pain relief, but even those, I would tend to switch over to Southern Comfort for pain relief. The bottle would say "don't take with alcohol" so I said screw it, I'll just toss the pills and take the alcohol instead.

My grandmother lived to be 98 years old and she always told me she never took the prescriptions the doctors tried to give her.

I know people my age who have medicine cabinets full of prescription drugs and they carry around those color coded pill dispensers so they don't lose track of the amount of pills they have to take during the day.

I wonder about that. I wonder whether the pills are keeping them well or if the pills are keeping them sick.

I suppose there are situations where you need to take the pills to stay alive. I resolve to hold off as long as possible getting on prescription drugs.

[Rodamala]

I self medicate with about $3000 of Lucky Strikes, and $1300 of coffee every year. It's probably less expensive than the appropriate amount of liquor I would require to survive without Luckies and coffee.