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Prescription Drug Abuse
Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem today. Because of this, many people who actually need the drugs that are being abused are finding them hard, if not impossible, to get. Most people still think of “drug abuse” as that involving heroin, cocaine, marijuana—in other words, “street drugs.” A person who is hooked on prescription drugs may be highly insulted to even be put in the same category as “those people.”
Guess what? Drug abuse is drug abuse, whether it’s street drugs or the pills that the doctor keeps writing prescriptions for even though he or she is fully aware that the patient does not need them, and has not needed them for a long time.
A person who is on Vicodin or Percocet or Dilaudid or whatever drug it may be is going to be put in the very same jail cell as the junkie standing on the corner if that person breaks the law while under the influence of that prescription drug. Likewise, if a person obtains his medication illegally, that person is going to go to jail, just like the person caught with a bag of marijuana or a rock of crack cocaine.
So, just because a person is on a “legal” drug; that is, he or she got it from the doctor, if the drug is being abused, that person is a drug abuser. And, that person needs help just as much as the junkie on the street or the wino in the gutter.
And, the sooner a prescription drug abuser realizes that he or she has a problem and gets help for the problem, the better off that person and everyone else who loves and knows that person will be. Don’t be fooled - prescription drug abuse is in fact still considered drug abuse.
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October 8th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
[…] looking at the person. Drug addiction takes on many different forms today. There are people who are addicted to prescription drugs—narcotic pain medication, sleep aids, or even some over-the-counter drugs or treatment methods […]