Prescription Drug Abuse
Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic
Kartia Kelly
COM/156
May 19, 2013
Eileen Kicmal
A recent poll conducted by the Partnership for a Drug Free America found that adolescents listed drugs as the most important problem facing people their age; prescription drug use is a major problem in our country. (Sallin, 2006; Partnership for a Drug Free America). In the United States the second most commonly abused category of drugs are prescription drugs, which is then followed by cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other drugs with marijuana being the most abused drug. This is according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. There is approximately 6.3 million Americans that stated they are currently using prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons which eventually becomes and addiction problem. If prescription drug abuse continues to increase, we will have an unbalanced society in the close future.
Prescription drug abuse is the use of a prescribe medication is when you take them any other than instructed by your physician, which will usually lead to addiction. Addiction to prescription drugs typically create problems in your personal, work, and family life. This abuse is usually caused by taking prescribed medication too often, non-prescribed medication to relieve your pain, or non-prescribed medication to relax or "get away". One of the causes of prescription drug abuse is when the patient takes his or her pain medication more often than they are prescribed for. The physician that you see prescribes pain medication with specific directions to the patient on how often and how much medicine they should take. However, even if the patient intents to follow the physician’s direction they may take the pain medication more often if the pain is persistent. Eventfully, this will lead to the patient becoming addicted to the prescribed drug and possibly other drugs.
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Kartia Kelly
COM/156
May 19, 2013
Eileen Kicmal
A recent poll conducted by the Partnership for a Drug Free America found that adolescents listed drugs as the most important problem facing people their age; prescription drug use is a major problem in our country. (Sallin, 2006; Partnership for a Drug Free America). In the United States the second most commonly abused category of drugs are prescription drugs, which is then followed by cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and other drugs with marijuana being the most abused drug. This is according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. There is approximately 6.3 million Americans that stated they are currently using prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons which eventually becomes and addiction problem. If prescription drug abuse continues to increase, we will have an unbalanced society in the close future.
Prescription drug abuse is the use of a prescribe medication is when you take them any other than instructed by your physician, which will usually lead to addiction. Addiction to prescription drugs typically create problems in your personal, work, and family life. This abuse is usually caused by taking prescribed medication too often, non-prescribed medication to relieve your pain, or non-prescribed medication to relax or "get away". One of the causes of prescription drug abuse is when the patient takes his or her pain medication more often than they are prescribed for. The physician that you see prescribes pain medication with specific directions to the patient on how often and how much medicine they should take. However, even if the patient intents to follow the physician’s direction they may take the pain medication more often if the pain is persistent. Eventfully, this will lead to the patient becoming addicted to the prescribed drug and possibly other drugs.
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