Is this common practice?

Question

Hello I have recently moved here from India and things are very different for me. A few days ago I was walking near my local area and I met a man who claimed to posses a pain reliever. My back has recently been hurting me because of my partner's rough tendencies during intercourse. This main claimed to have something that would relieve the tension in my back. He took me to a building in which he claimed the antibiotic was held. Inside a building I met a man who was reffered to as The Doctor however he was dressed in jeans and t shirt. He was surronded by big men and women wearing very little dress. I told him about my back problems and he handed me 3 different antiobiotics. I gave him 15 dollars and he told me not to tell anyone who he was or he would "find me." Once i took these in succession I found a sudden feeling of joy followed by some sort of brain dysfunction. Is this a standard American pharmacy or clinical service procedure for giving antiobiotics?

Answer 1

No

Answer 2

Senior bu bu, you are funny.

Answer 3

I think you already suspect the answer(s) to these questions, namely, a profound "NO!"  What you experienced is in no way standard American medical practice.  Additionally, antibiotics would be of absolutely no use for back pain, unless that pain were caused by a kidney, bladder, hemorrhoidal or some other sort of bacterial infection.  Antibiotics can only be prescribed by a doctor or a physician's assistant (PA), in this country, and it is rare that they would be given out in a doctor's office, unless you were being given samples by that doctor.  One usually gets one's prescriptions filled in a pharmacy in this country.  

To be honest, I'm having to wonder how anyone could be this naive, and if this is truly a real post...Most people, whether they are foreign or not, have enough sophistication to know if they are in a real doctor's office or not.  It sounds much more like you met your friendly neighborhood drug dealer than it does that you dealt with any sort of true professional...It also sounds like you did something extremely foolish and dangerous, so quit doing things like this, okay?

Answer 4

Whose leg are you trying to pull?

Who takes antibiotics for a bad back?

Who follows a perfect stranger into a strange building in a country where you have newly arrived?

Who buys unknown "medicine" from strangers? It could have been poison!

How naive can you get and how naive do you think we are? (Although you manage to get a few naive people to answer you in all their naive seriousness! Well done!)

Thanks for the 2 points and hope your back is better with the good laugh you must be having each time someone takes you seriously. :-))

Answer 5

I hope you are feeling better.  It sounds like you were given a recreational drug ("party" drug, "street" drug, "designer" drug), or maybe an herbal concoction.  No legitimate licensed health care worker would threaten you not to tell on him, nor charge you only $15 for an office visit and medication.  The euphoria you describe indicates the drug may have been an opiate derivative, or perhaps "ecstasy," a mildly hallucinagenic amphetamine (speed).  $15 would be a very low price for such street drugs, so I don't know.  Be careful in future -- there are all kinds of crooks and crazies out there!!