If Prescription Drugs Are Terribly Abused by Teens, Why Isn’t Anyone Doing Anything About It?
Question by Kaden: If prescription drugs are terribly abused by teens, why isn’t anyone doing anything about it?
Prescription drugs are abused all the time and most pills out there are dangerous and can cause health issues in the future even if it’s not abused.
It seems like there is a pill for everything yet no one acknowledges that most pills out there are bad for you and can cause harm in the future, why?
Best answer:
Answer by Tink
No one is getting high off blood pressure, bone density, gout, menopause, etc, etc, medication.
The vast majority of medications are not abused to get high…however, the ones that are….I’m with you. I would like to know how it is the girls I work with who are in rehab can buy a hundred vicodin at a time, or how percocets can be had on any corner in my town….I can’t believe it comes from doctors over prescribing them….there has to be a leak somewhere.
But this is not a simple issue – there are ten questions for every answer we have, and the answers are nebulous…
For example, why do kids want to get all messed up on these things? It can’t be just because they want to have fun – because who would put a loaded gun to their head to have fun?
Why is is that we have so many people taking opiate pain medications, that kids have them in most medicine cabinets? I have a hard time believing people neeed a script for 50 vicodin to have a wisdom tooth removed.
What holes are there in the supply line that allow so many of these things to get onto the street.
If OTC cough syrup doesnt control cough (which a number of studies suggest) but kids can get high off it, why is it available?
Why isn’t the DEA going after the Mexican and Indian pharmaceutical companies that supply most meth makers in the US (most meth cookers aren’t going to unload a pharmacy shelf worth of pills to make a single dose) taking pseduephadrine off the shelfs has done little to reduce meth abuse…
Ugh! I have a bunch of questions, all in rant format, and for that I’m sorry.
I share your furstration, but know that there are many good medications out there that do not have the potential for abuse, that improve lives everyday.
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