YOUR NATIONAL NEWS
Source St. Petersburg Times
NOVEMBER 2011
2nd Day
The precription drugs given from nations's doctors is said be enough to medicate every adult American in the U.S. around the clock for an entire month. This report is sited from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With Florida ranked as the highest of written precriptions in the nation. Without modification it's been also reported by the CDC that at least 40 Americans die every day from using overdoes of prescribed medications. The report highlighted that the evidence is escalating an prescribed epidemic among uses of high does of pain killers. Medications such as higly additive drugs including OxyContin and Vicodin are held responsible for 15,000 deaths a year. That figure conquers more than drugs like cocaine and heroin combined.
Along with the numerous epidemic of prescription drug abuses are the deaths, and emotional toll of addiction. The report said that the cost of this recent "write of the pad" costs the nation $73 billion dollars annually. With this attention being focused now there may be necessary steps that will govern physicians to limiting strong prescriptions to their patients. There will need to reform to control pain killers, or the deaths from precriptions will continue to soar.
Amazingly frightening.
Posted By: MIISRAEL Bride
Thursday, November 3rd 2011 at 12:05PM
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