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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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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.
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Thousands of Oklahomans are fighting an addiction to prescription pain killers. According to a report in News on 6, former Oklahoma State University basketball coach is just one of these individuals.
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To say there is a problem with prescription medications in the United States would be an understatement. A recent piece in the Dispatch reported that Ohio pharmacists filled 2.7 million prescriptions in 2008 for such painkillers as OxyContin and Percocet. This amount equates to nearly one for every four people in the state.
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As the prescription drug addiction epidemic continues to rise, so does the number of people seeking help for these addictions throughout the United States. A recent report highlights the skyrocketing number of new pain clinics in South Florida that have allowed prescription drug trafficking to go unchecked. As a result, many new prescription drug pill addicts have been created.
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Young people are abusing prescription drugs with alarming frequency, sometimes during "pharm parties" where pills are set out like candy, a man whose son died of an overdose of painkillers told a conference Tuesday.
