Friday
Apr182008
Drugs in 2000 A.D. (1970)
Friday, April 18, 2008 at 3:47PM 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)
Reader Comments (8)
Quite an accurate prediction, isn't it?
She forgot an ED pill
Other than the hypnotic dream regulator, Nailed it!
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.
They called it "hypnotic dream regulator", but we call it "viagra"!
Yeah, that's actually a pretty good one.
One of the best predictions I've seen on this blog. Nearly every older person I know has some kind of pharmacy he/she has to take. Got a problem? There's a pill for that!
The scary thing is, this is what they were "predicting" to be the norm 30 years in the future. I've been in a few nursing homes in the past 5 years; some of them are at best, awful. All of them tend to be fairly sad places for the elderly and dying. So this prediction raises the question of "what kind of hell-holes were nursing homes in 1970?"...ugh.