This is just getting worse and worse.

[Archae]

What am I talking about?

Ads for prescription drugs.
I tape on my DVR the evening news, so I can skip through the ads.

But in the mornings, when I'm waiting for the forecast on The Weather Channel, there is just one ad after another for prescription drugs.
And the ones for bipolar sufferers are the worst.

We need to outlaw these ads.

[ret5hd]

1. Archae, ask your doctor if Vodka is right for you!

[Initech]

2. Oh I know!

Every commercial on TV anymore is either for a new car or an extremely specific pharmaceutical drug. Sometimes I really wonder if our skyrocketing drug prices have to do with the skyrocketing number of times we see their advertisements on TV? I would be willing to bet there's a correlation there.

[handmade34]

3. might find this interesting

https://www.statnews.com/2015/12/11/untold-story-tvs-first-prescription-drug-ad/

yes. these ads need to be banned

[Va Lefty]

4. And listen to the side effects. Worse than the ailment

[wcmagumba]

5. Most sane countries have...

outlawed these type of ads. I have almost completely stopped watching
cable or network news and other types of shows because of the ads
and the corporate bias. I will watch specific clips someone posts but I
get most of my news and weather online where I can block ads or go
to a different site.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-drugadvertising-20170215-story.html

[JDC]

6. I love explaining to my 10 yo daughter what ED is on a Sunday at noon

Theae ads are out if control yes. In the middle of an opioid crisis, ads for opioid caused constipation really says it all.

[malaise]

7. I have a cousin who visits annually and watches Lifetime non-stop

I've never seen anything like the ads there -: fugging non-stop. I do laugh when the list the side effects which sound worse that whatever was/is the health problem.

[Initech]

8. My favorite is when they say something like:

"Side effects include vomiting, kidney infections, and in some cases, death. Do not take (insert drug name here) if you are allergic to (whatever)."

Wait, did they just broadbrush death? Way to hide the lead there!

[malaise]

10. Yes indeed

But the best line these days tells us not to stop taking it without the doctor's permission for that is worse than all the side effects.

[Initech]

12. I also like how they have in large text on the ads: "See our ad in Golf Digest magazine!"

So you're watching an ad to go tell you to look at another ad. Does anyone actually do this?

[malaise]

14. Heheheheh

[maxsolomon]

9. they know the audience.

the elderly.

"may cause permanent uncontrollable shaking" is my favorite side effect.

[RhodeIslandOne]

13. This

Watch shows geared to twenty somethings and you get none of that.

[Hoyt]

11. I despise the ads too, but there are some benefits in some cases.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/upshot/ban-drug-ads-on-tv-some-positive-outcomes-would-be-lost.amp.html