Methamphetamine is a drug which creates its own culture. The dark world that becomes real for its users is often dangerous and uncomfortable for those watching. The lines of right and wrong turn into grey as law enforcement officials try to control the spreading plague. One of the side effects is paranoia and this adds [...]
The 411 On Prescription Drugs The numbers are in. 22,000 pounds of unused out-dated prescription drugs were collected in Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and Utah alone, that doesn’t include the other participating states. The Denver Colorado office of the DEA reported that last week’s prescription drug take-back on April 30th, 2011 was a major success. The [...]
Methadone For Mothers? An hysterical mother just called me today about a situation with her daughter who is on fairly high daily doses of Methadone. The woman is not as concerned about her daughter as she is her two month old granddaughter. It just didn’t make sense that a doctor would be advising her daughter [...]
Prescription Drug Disposal You’ve probably heard or read a lot lately about prescription drugs abuse and teens getting high off of the stuff you have stashed in your medicine cabinet. Well it’s true. So what do you do with old medicines you have after they have served their purpose and they are just laying around [...]
PARALLEL TRENDS IN PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE The number of deaths caused from accidental overdose of opioid pain relievers nearly quadrupled from 1999 to 2007, according to Dr. Leanard Paulozzi of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Visits to the emergency room for opioid pain killers increased by 242 percent while the visits for illegal [...]
The Epidemic Of Prescription Drug Abuse, America’s New War On Drugs It seems American has always been at war with drugs. In the 1960s and 1970s the enemy was marijuana, psycho-pharmaceutical drugs like LSD and other hallucinogens, and heroin. At the end of the Vietnam War soldiers came home addicted illicit drugs and brought back [...]
“It Starts With A Visit To The Doctor” Millions and millions of Americans in the United States are addicted to prescription drugs. It starts out as a simple visit to the doctor. Then the patient fills their prescription at a local pharmacy. Soon after, they realize what they actually have in their hands. For things [...]
Did you know that if you are in possession of an unauthorized prescription drug you can be charged with “possessing an illegal substance”? Yes, it’s true. If you are driving erratically and you are pulled over for suspicion of “driving under the influence” and drugs are discovered present in your system, and you have no [...]
Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opiate whose chemical structure is similar to that of morphine and heroin. Fentanyl is a pain medication used after surgery or for chronic fatal illnesses. When misused, drug abusers can feel the same effects as heroin. Fentanyl is increasingly being manufactured in illegal, unapproved laboratories where its chemical composition and [...]
A wave of prescription drug abuse is already here, the damage to our culture is increasingly becoming hard to ignore Prescription Pills Are Not Candy The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta has just declared a new epidemic. Prescription drug abuse has become the leading cause of unintentional deaths in the country. There were 27,000 [...]
