Prescription Drug Abuse and Misuse: An Epidemic?
SHARED by alison b on June 14, 2008 - 7:43pm
A recent article in the New York Times said that the rate of deaths caused by prescription and other legal drugs (in Florida) was three times the rate of deaths caused by all illicit drugs combined!
Do you think there is a prescription drug abuse epidemic? Is it happening in your community or elsewhere? What can we do about keeping our medicine and other drugs (including alcohol) out of the hands of the mis-users?
Have your or a loved one had a problem with addiction to any prescription or non-prescription drugs? What helped you overcome this?
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It feels like there is a prescription drug abuse problem in our community especially among teens who abuse Soma. Some teens have driven across the border to purchase the drug and distribute it among their classmates. In fact, yesterday a family member said to me that he remembers when he was in high school, the people who were popular were the athletes -- the guys on the football and baseball teams and the cheerleaders. A friend of his 14-year-old daughter told him that the criteria for popularity now is ... doing drugs. And this is in suburbia.
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