Friday, April 18, 2008

Drugs in 2000 A.D. (1970)

Stanley F. Yolles, M.D., Director of the National Institute of Mental Health wrote a piece which was published in the March 4, 1970 New Castle News (New Castle, PA) titled, "Drugs in 2000 A.D." An excerpt appears below.
At the turn of the century then, which is only 30 years from now, a nurse visiting a 75-year-old person may be engaged as part of her job in making sure that he is taking regularly several kinds of vitamin doses, a painkiller, a hypnotic dream regulator, an anti-depressant, a sedative or psychostimulant, and so on.

See also:
Future Shock - Electrical Stimulation (1972)
Health Care in 1994 (1973)
Computer Doctor (1982)
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6 comments:

  1. FabioApril 18, 2008 at 6:09 PM

    Quite an accurate prediction, isn't it?

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  2. AnonymousApril 18, 2008 at 10:43 PM

    She forgot an ED pill

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  3. AnonymousApril 19, 2008 at 3:31 PM

    Other than the hypnotic dream regulator, Nailed it!

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  4. Mark PlusApril 19, 2008 at 4:59 PM

    My 81 year old father takes a statin drug for his cholesterol, a blood pressure drug, dilantin for his seizures, a drug for his congestive heart disease and a drug for his type 2 diabetes.

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  5. AnonymousApril 22, 2008 at 12:42 PM

    They called it "hypnotic dream regulator", but we call it "viagra"!

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  6. UnknownApril 23, 2008 at 9:44 PM

    Yeah, that's actually a pretty good one.

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