Drug commercials are everywhere these days and they influence us because they are effective. People see how happy others look in commercials and they want the drugs. So, doctors, who make money off these new drugs, are sometimes more than happy to write prescriptions. The problem is that these drugs aren’t always safe and they are causing consumers health problems. Sometimes taking an over-the-counter medicine or something that has been around for years is much safer. In the Archives of Internal Medicine, there is a new study showing that you would have been much better off taking an over-the-counter arthritis medicine instead of Vioxx or Celebrex. But people wanted those medicines because they appeared to be so effective in ads. Turns out they were much more expensive and could cause serious health problems.