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    Prescription drug overdose is an increasingly widespread public health issue. This is a public health issue because it is claiming lives at a faster rate than ever‚ with 29 states having doubled the death rate from prescription drug overdose since 1999 (APHA). Not only is it claiming lives at a faster rate‚ but research has shown repeatedly that prescription drug abuse is a chronic brain disease and should be treated as such‚ but in our society‚ we tend to view it as a choice and judge them instead

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    Unit 2 Project: Prescription Drug Abuse in Dayton‚ Ohio Michele Gue Kaplan University CM220-19 Professor Mcdonald January 21‚ 2013 The “Big Idea” I have decided to try and educate people on is the severity of prescription drug abuse in Dayton‚ Ohio. My working thesis statement is “Prescription drug abuse leads to further drug addictions‚ serious health issues‚ and complications with loved ones. Severe policies

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    Overview Prescription drug abuse and addiction is a growing problem in our society. In 2007 an estimated seven million Americans abused prescription drugs‚ and almost twenty-eight thousand people died as a result of accidental drug overdose. In the United States drug overdoses are the second leading cause of unintentional deaths (CDC‚ 2010). Medication prescribed by physicians killed more people in that same than illicit drugs such as heroin and cocaine combined (Harvard‚ 2011). Many members

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    Prescription Drug Costs Should Medicare be allowed to negotiate drug prices? Is the debate in this case Americans on Medicare have out-of-pocket spending tends that increase with age; in 2010‚ beneficiaries ages 85 and older spent three times more out-of-pocket on services‚ on average more than beneficiaries ages 65 to 74 ($5‚962 vs. $1‚926). With prescription drug costs out of control since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)‚ commonly called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) drug

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    want to take a look at the prescription drugs and the abuse of it. I would like to look into different origins to where prescription drug uses for non medical purposes might have started (ie. residential mobility‚ disabilities‚ race‚ or gender) . It would also help if I look at what are pharmacists and prescribers thinking when they are prescribing and giving the drugs to their patients. Bibliography: Felicilda-Reynaldo‚ R. D. (2014). Recognizing Signs of Prescription Drug Abuse and Addiction‚ Part

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    In United States‚ we have a major problem with the addiction of prescription drugs. “Prescription drugs are playing an increasingly larger role in U.S. life‚ with nearly half of all Americans taking one or more medications” (Thompson 2013-2014). “Since I went to pharmacy school‚ I learned Drug Enforcement Administration’s  (DEA) and FDA rules and regulation which made me  wonder about how and why misuse and abuse of prescription drugs costs the country an estimated of $53.4 billion‚ which is very

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    Illicit and Prescription Drug Abuse and How it Affects Families June 27‚ 2011 PSY/425 Instructor Barbara Nosal Drug abuse has affected many families and households. Some families have family members who are addicted to prescription drugs and other members of the family are not aware. Twenty percent of people in the United States have used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes (U.S. National Library of Medicine‚ n.d.). Prescription drug abuse is continuing

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    The Rate of Young Accidental Overdoses have Recently Increased Because Prescription Medication Abuse is Now on the Rise. Why are prescription medications quickly becoming the most abused drug throughout today’s youth. Dr. Nora D. Volkow‚ director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse‚ estimates that forty eight million people misuse prescribed medicine. That is about twenty percent of the United States population (1). Maybe because these medications are fairly easy to posses‚ no matter of

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    using themselves as experimental laboratories for strange drug combinations that no scientist ever thought of‚” (Winters 62). Overall‚ today’s rate of drug abuse in teenagers has dropped‚ but the nonmedical use of prescription medication has drastically increased (Chapter 4). Kids around the world are turning away from street drugs‚ to abuse prescription medication that can be found right at home. Prescription drug abuse is using prescription medication prescribed by a doctor‚ for nonmedical reasons

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    most other nations are not: prescription drug advertisements. In a nation built on consumerism‚ where people are often too easily influenced by the advertisements they see‚ is this really a beneficial or safe practice? Many would say no. These advertisements can often have negative impacts on consumers perceptions of their doctors‚ and even on their own health. However‚ others would argue that these advertisements are beneficial because they put information

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