Propaganda! That’s how.
I take some prescription drugs. Last time I went to the doctor to get my prescriptions refilled I had to take a urine analysis. It’s something new in response to the growing number of people abusing prescription drugs. The test also makes sure you are taking your drugs and not hoarding or selling them.
It's for the children, donchaknow?
Psychiatrists are dangerous quacks, and their pills make you sicker than you were when you went in for help. I would think twice before trusting anyone in my family to their tender mercies.
Welcome to FR, BTW...
My wife was prescribed Paxil 20 years ago... The doctor doctor who prescribed it died and the new doctor just continued the prescription.
In checking her medications on the web, I found that the first 150 thousand hits with google involved lawsuits regarding this drug...
I told the Dr., either justify it or take her off it. I ask him if he knew why she was on it and he didn’t.
He immediately weaned her off it. I think he was somewhat embarrassed.
Bottom line... YOU have to check. They won’t.
The awareness that has to resonate is that prescription drug addiction is no better than illicit drug addiction and those who abuse either type of drug is an addict.
Prescription medications are still killing, writes the Association of Accredited Naturopathic Medical Colleges (AANMC).
Huh? What does a Naturopath have to do with pharmacology? And propoxyphene has been pulled off the market( very stupid move by the way) since 2010.
This is what gets me about the anti-supplement jihad.
For every person who is even made sick by taking supplements, probably TEN THOUSAND die from prescription drugs!
Prescription pain killers/sleep aids/anti-psychotics kill far more people in this country than supplements and/or illegal drugs combined.
Way, way more.
Many times more!
I am in withdrawal from Cymbalta right now.
Its hellish. It was prescribed for nerve pain.
It did not do enough for the pain so I want to quit.
Also, it is expensive.
Google it. (ssri syndrome).
We need a war on drugs.
bunch of crap. 15000 died of prescription drug use, but if you look at the data closely, a lot of it is diversion of narcotics from patients who needed the pain medicine, or diverted from “pill mills” like that of abortionist gosnell.
In comparison, 15000 people died from “NSAIDS”: aspirin, motrin, etc.
The increase in pain pill abuse is because for years, people hurt: because docs wouldn’t give them enough pain medicine to relieve their pain. I saw this in my father when he was dying of cancer, and I’m sure you know of similar people.
So they loosened the criteria for using narcotics.
And voila, the druggies started stealing it: I know of two deaths from narcotics diverted from cancer patients. Are you going to blame the docs for these deaths?
as for anti depressent medicines: Yes, I filled in for a clinic where a lot of the ladies I saw were on prozac etc...I joked about it only to have a nurse say she was on it too.
A lot of these ladies needed TLC and cutting back on a busy schedule, but when the HMO tells you to see 23 people a day, who has time to counsel them? Which is why I was filling in there, not working there.
ON the other hand, if prozac helps your raging hormones, well, why not? As for depression: It is a major problem. And often people with chronic pain have secondary biochemical depression. Should we let them suffer? Depression is not in your head.
http://www.blackdoginstitute.org.au/public/Depression/depressionexplained/index.cfm
As a chronic pain patient all I can say is I’m getting sick and damned tired of having to jump through more and more hoops thanks to all the idiot dopeheads out there.
I take my meds as prescribed and have since 1989 when a drunk driver very nearly killed me. I’ve never and would never do anything to cause any problems because I know what is SUPPOSSED to happen to those who abuse them.
If I can follow the rules and do it for 23 years straight then so can anyone.
This is awful! We need to ramp up the War On Drugs! We need DEA and the professionals of Obamacare to second guess Doctors even more than is already done. Obviously we need more no knock raids and more paperwork for medical professionals. More bureaucratic oversight is always the cure!
Give even more power to government to tell doctors what to do? As this article seems to suggest.
“How can we as a society make people more aware of this danger.”
Talk about our drug experiences on Freerepublic.com.
Seriously, there was a time when investigative journalist
actually investigated and exposed truth. Truth that mattered.
Now, everything must fit the agenda of Satan which is pretty much void of truth about anything that really matters.
Now it’s the new media. In fact you are at one of the founding websites of the new media.
Prescription drugs are "Controlled Substances", regulated primarily by the FDA (stating the obvious; work with me).
Prescription drug abuse begins & ends with the doctors prescribing the drugs, not "people". Seriously: A study of people abusing essentially government-dispensed drugs blaming people?
Doctors are also "drug dealers" now, based on my interpretation of the article.
So, if the government can't enforce its own enforcement mechanisms & regulations for Schedule 'x' Controlled Substances, there's little point to continuing enforcement of 'illicit' drugs under the current scheme.
Worse, if you look at the statistics between 1998 & 2008 here, then one stunning explanation stands out:
Economic Anxiety
And the author sees fit to publish only 4 ways to deal with the problem, ALL of them with more regulation by the Government? ROFLMAO if this guy weren't serious, as most progs are about increasing government even further.
Ironically, this study is a stunning indictment of government across the board.
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