Prescription drug

news about how money spent on prescription drugs has increased 3% in 2013, which results to about $329.2 billion. Those are astonishing numbers, now if you take that number and you divide it by how many people live in the US, that works out to be about $1,000 per person spent on prescription drugs. Since doctors hold the key in prescribing drugs, some doctors are prescribing certain drugs that pharmaceutical companies are requesting them to prescribe even thought that drug might not be the best…

Prescription drugs when used properly can help citizens cope with issues such as ADHD, pain, anxiety, and even insomnia. However, these drugs are often used for their unintended use and can lead to a multitude of consequences. The market for prescription drugs has a wide demographic including street buyers, street dealers, doctors, pharmacists, and people who have become addicted when on valid prescriptions. Prescription drugs make up a large part an already sizable industry for drugs. One of…

Introduction whaat and why Drug addiction is a powerful demon that can sneak up on you and take over your life before you know it has even happened. In today’s world this this demon is set lose upon us, our friends and family by someone we trust with our lives, our doctor’s There’s an epidemic happening right now and America is leading the charge. Pain, stress and anxiety are things that many people live with every moment of everyday. In today’s modern world the easiest was to fix these problems…

Among the factors thought to contribute to initial heroin use is prescription drug dependence. Reliance on pain medication (in the form of Oxycodone or Vicodin) causes subsequent drug dependence, but, due to the economic and legal issues involved in the acquisition of prescription pain medication, heroin is substituted as an inexpensive more accessible alternative (Draus et al., 2006). Opiate pain medications cost, on average, $1 per milligram, and the typical dose is 60 mg. As a result, one…

nation’s fastest drug problem is prescription drug abuse. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), prescription drug abuse is the second most abused drug on the market, with marijuana being the first most abused drug. Prescription drug abuse is starts out for most people as legal medical necessity, but then drastically turns to an illegal use the more time one uses the drug. In 2009, studies show that nearly one-third of the people over the age of twelve who used drugs…

Prescription drug addiction is a major problem in the world today. Many people are getting addicted to drugs that are prescribed every day. People who are getting addicted to drugs do not realize the risks that they are taking. Risks including what drugs can do for them mentally and physically, but what it could do to their families and the people who care for them. Are prescription drugs safe or dangerous and what are the risks that could be caused from abusing drugs? Prescription drug abuse…

Wise English PO50 05/03/2015 Investigation essay Prescription Drugs: A Growing Epidemic Prescription drug abuse is a growing epidemic across the nation. Opioids, commonly used to relieve pain, and stimulants, commonly used to treat a medical condition known as ADHD or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, are a few prescribed medications abused by adults and adolescents nationwide. A few of the major issues related to the abuse of prescription medications include lack of education,…

Clearly, all of drugs are addictive and unfortunately are not hard to find. “I was addicted for seven years, I was getting them from my friends, well who I thought were friends, and now after rehab I can’t see them anymore,” said Stashak (Stashak 2014). Like Stashak, many people purchase these drugs off of their “friends” who are prescribed by a doctor or get them from someone else. For some people they receive them right from their physicians. “Illegal acquisition of prescription drugs for…

When there is nothing left in the prescription drug world and all traditional methods of treatment are exhausted what safe alternatives are out there? Prescription drugs have seen a fair share of criticism over the years, although potentially saving millions of lives, some are dangerous and it is not uncommon when you turn on your television to see a commercial addressing the public about a lawsuit against a prescription drug company for having some horrible side-effect. Marijuana is the world’s…

22,767 deaths due to prescription drug overdoses. Of these overdoses 16,235 were from opioid painkillers and 6,973 were benzodiazepines also known as sedative/muscle relaxants (cdc). Why is it that drunk driving fatalities seem to garner more attention nation wide that prescription drug overdoses do? You would think that the one with the higher death toll would attract more attention, would you not? Yet each year it seems that this tragic loss of life due to prescription drug overdoses hardly…