I would have to go to the opposite end and say that medication is wasted on the young. Misdiagnosis is so prevalent these days and it's way too easy to write something off as a "designer disease". Time will tell how these medications affect the youth of today.

Here's an example of my point:
http://www.chiro.org/pediatrics/ABSTRACT...

"Medication Is Wasted On The Old" is a myth! I have a 91 year old mother who swims, dives, seadoos and she's a social butterfly, funny, smart and she's a great cook! She has seven greatchildren who love her to death, and she loves them! She takes blood pressure medication, thyroid medication and gets B12 shots. Does anyone think this medication is wasted on my mother? I don't think so!

They are both absurdities of course.
The young can squander their youth certainly but that's the point of being young isn't it? Despite my middle aged perspective give me a day as a teenager and I will spend it as a teenager. Those youngsters who end up doing maths degrees at Oxford or Yale never seem to do terribly well in the long run do they?
As for your second 'home-truth' I am terribly worried by the medicalisation (a disgusting neologism - I apologise) of the young. I see teenagers in clinic who have been given medical labels that they wear with pride. There are those that do have genuine conditions and I don't count those but I see a lot who are basically fit and well yet have conditions like 'low sugar' or 'occasional asthma' and enter a bizarre comfort zone that allows them to do nothing. They buy into a 'victim-culture' that will serve them poorly in the end and is typified with the words "I can't...". They are doomed if they won't snap out of it. The elderly need their medicines often to simply live. I can't begrudge them that! It reminds me of a saying by Sir William Osler - ' what separates man from the animals is man's desire to take medicine'.

medication is wasted on the old

i said that medication is wasted on the old because their entire body is already weak to adopt on medications specially treatment... and for me the most useful in our country that can contribute a lot and have potentials to do more are the youth.

"Medication Is Wasted On The Old"-- Reality, come on those sickly old people have less than a few days left those medications are all going to waste!!!

No Just kidding they are the ones who should be look out for the most not teenagers with their stupidity (not including myself!!!) I wished i still had my grandmother i would have wasted any medication there is to let her live a few more years!!! Miss her always.....

They are both myths, however, both have an element of truth in them. In youth, we don't realize what we have because we always want to grow up faster. Only when we get older do we truly realize how glorious some things were, like naptime in kindergarten. I don't know any kid who WANTS to take a nap, and any adult I know would kill for one.
In regards to "Medication is wasted on the old", all I can say is that no one values age the way we should in this society. Hopefully, with age comes wisdom and life experience. But many times old people are just seen as old and crochety (which in some cases they are), and we think medication is wasted.

I think "Youth is wasted on the young," is true. I have to encourage my kids to play games with me all the time. They just want to lay around and be bums. I make them go places with me, and they would rather stay home. They can be real killjoys. Kids are supposed to be active, wanting to go places and have fun! Mine act like they should live in a nursing home. Yes, youth IS wasted on the young!!!!!

"Medication Is Wasted On The Old"



because medications is going to be waste for old people as they have less life span and medicines can't work on them as they have less resistance power when they get any deceases..

Both statements can be myth or reality depending on how you look at it.

Youth is wasted on young is myth for me as my son who is just 20 is training twice his age officials in a bank in US.

Youth is wasted on young is reality when I see one of my friend's son who is a spoilt brat who wakes up boozing and sleeps at night boozing. His parents are mute spectators.


Medication Is Wasted On The Old is myth for father in law of my sister who is living on pacemaker past 25 years and he still looks younger than his son who happens to be my brother in law.