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A drug addiction can lead an individual to do a lot of things, including breaking the law. According to a Telegraph Journal report, Dilaudid was the drug of choice for Thomas Francis Elliott. The 34-year-old came to the end of a year-long crime spree with a 30 month federal penitentiary sentence.
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Prescription medication was originally marketed as a way to allow medical patients to find relief from pain, a control mechanism for depression or anxiety and even controlled weight loss. Now, more and more individuals are developing addiction problems with prescription medications.
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As of 2008, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared that drug overdose had become the second leading cause of unintentional death, just behind motor vehicle fatalities. However, more recent evidence is showing an exponential surge in drug overdose deaths, caused specifically by prescription drugs. Prescription medications are still considered by some to be non-toxic or harmless, as opposed to illicit drugs, which are universally identified as being deadly. Prescription medication, however, can be just as toxic, and is accessible to anyone of any age who can purchase them legally with a prescription, find them in a parent’s medicine cabinet, or gain them by means of prescription forgery or diversion—also known as “doctor shopping.”
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It isn’t any surprise that the abuse of prescription drugs is a growing epidemic in the United States. According to a Behavioral Health Central report, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) has reported that in some countries it has outpaced the combination of heroin, cocaine and ecstasy.
