The Tragedy Of Prescription Drug Abuse
By Edna Lawrence – A few generations ago, food provided all the nutrients people needed to achieve health. Today, there are drugs, drugs, and more drugs. The average American gets fourteen prescriptions shoved down their throat every year. And the drug companies obtain their profit from our pain. If we want to create health and [...]
Prescription Drug Abuse
By Jennifer Bailey – When a prescription drug is used in quantities more than the recommended dosage or when not required, it is termed drug abuse. Painkillers, tranquilizers and anti-anxiety drugs are some of the most commonly abused prescription drugs. Generally, patients take medicines as prescribed by their doctors. When taken this way, there is [...]
Prescription Drug Abuse Out of Control
By George D. Williams – The new drug of choice is not an illicit substance found only in the dark alley ways and parts of town known for criminal activity. Instead the hottest craze can be found in the medicine cabinet of any suburban home with well manicured lawns and picturesque neighborhoods. Prescription drug abuse [...]
Michael Jackson, Demerol, and Prescription Drug Abuse
By Robert Levin – Did Michael Jackson die from a prescription drug overdose? As I write this it is barely 12 hours since the death of the “King of Pop” and rumors are circulating that there is a strong possibility an overdose of Demerol, a prescription pain killer similar to morphine might have triggered or [...]