THE DISTRUCTIVE DISCOVERY

Science has been playing a great role to make our living more easy and more productive and it will continue to do so. A great feature of science is dynamism and science never relent on holding onto that because they believe the only way to develop is through change, change in our housing system, our modes of transportation, communication, health care delivery system, agriculture and food production. I have read a lot of articles and posts where positive reviews and appraisals are been given to scientific and technological inventions, yes, a rosy picture of science and technology but this is not true. People forget to think of is the catastrophic side of these inventions, talking of the deployment of weapons and other instruments of men destruction, atmospheric pollution due to factory and car emission, loss of job due to industrial revolution, man’s dependence on drugs.

Narrowly, medicine as a great discovery by science is our case study because at this very age none of us could deny he or she has never been treated with the use of scientific medicine whether for minor sickness like headache, chest pain, common cold and cough, malaria, fever or the major sickness like heart disease, kidney failure, cancer, diabetes. It is not a sin to use any chemically produced drug to cure sickness, but when some of these medicine are misused, they can be very harmful to our health;

Over a long period of time, medicines are being used as cure for many diseases that could have killed mankind and till date, it remains a good discovery that can be used for any disease or sickness that could stop man from being able to carry out his daily activities. How beautiful would it have been if all these great discoveries are harmless?

According to a poll, 48% of youths are now participating in drug misuse known as drug abuse, this has led to the death of some, mental disorder or even heart failure. Pain killers are one of drugs the youths get engaged in nowadays, it spread rapidly to the extend that most government of nations have decided to ban the importation of such drugs because they do more harm than good for the people who use them. I have also had an experience of  some doctors who give pain killers to patients instead of prescribing normal drugs that should be use for a particular sickness, some do that to make people think they are competent, when you visit them, you feel good after 5 minutes you use the pain killer, this is bad and unhealthy, what the drug does to you system is just to block out the pains and make you feel you are okay, it wont take the sickness away, it remains there temporarily and when the effect of the drug is over, you start feeling bad again. Beware, you might have been doing that for a long time and it can result to an internal damage of your body system in no time.