Are Prescription PainKillers America’s Most Toxic Drugs?

Posted by Ginny Williams
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Mar 6, 2012
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“The biggest and fastest-growing part of America’s drug problem is prescription drug abuse,” says Robert DuPont, a former White House drug czar and a former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “The statistics are unmistakable.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the misuse and abuse of prescription medication has caused a drastic increase in substance fatal substance overdose. This epidemic has gone generally unrecognized and continues to claims thousands of lives each year around the world. 38,371 people died in 2007 as a result of drug overdose this makes overdose the 10th leading cause of death.

“The death toll is equivalent to a hundred 757s crashing and killing everybody on board every year, but this doesn’t make the news,” said Dan Bigg of the Chicago Recovery Alliance

“The number of overdose deaths from opioid painkillers — opium-like drugs that include morphine and codeine — more than tripled from 1999 to 2006, to 13,800 deaths that year” according to CDC statistics released Wednesday.

“About 120,000 Americans a year go to the emergency room after overdosing on opioid painkillers” says Laxmaiah Manchikanti, chief executive officer and board chairman for the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.

“In the past, most overdoses were due to illegal narcotics, such as heroin, with most deaths in big cities. Prescription painkillers have now surpassed heroin and cocaine, however, as the leading cause of fatal overdoses” Paulozzi says. “And the rate of fatal overdoses is now about as high in rural areas — 7.8 deaths per 100,000 people — as in cities, where the rate is 7.9 deaths per 100,000 people” according to a paper he published last year in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety.

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Ginny Williams
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Adam C.
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Thanks Ginny for the info, I been having those pain killers daily. Shoulb be reduce by now.

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Daniel A. Lopez
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Daniel A. Lopez

A good article, this is what medicine should concern us all.
Do not expect to be sick for knowledge on welfare to feel healthy.
Thanks for sharing this information.
Greetings.

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Ernestine Emery
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Internet Marketer

I understand what your are saying, but what about the people that really need the pain killing prescription? I think they should be aware of what they are taking. They should discuss with their pharmacy about the prescriptions they are given. I always discuss my prescription with my doctor as well as the pharmacy.

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Ginny Williams
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Thanks for your comments

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Elizabeth Ratnik
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it just comes to show that prescription and non-prescription drugs are poisons and should never be taken except during emergencies.

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Ginny Williams
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Thanks David, I agree.

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David Denman
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Good job. Education is the answer.

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