Depressing it would be to look up the numbers of Americans who lose their dreams and goals, their jobs, families and homes due to the use of "drugs". Overwhelming to understand that as the economic crisis has stolen the same things that there is just not any money for "drug rehab" centers or intervention. It is still common in the United States to believe that cocaine, heroin, and "speed" are the "street drugs" Americans choose to abuse. Today a silent killer is loose. As Americans have come to depend upon medical science to reduce physical and emotional pain we have come to accept the illogical conclusion that "pain killers" are not dangerous. After all they are "prescribed" by a physician. Or the thought "this pain killer isn't a dangerous street drug because it is made by a prosperous pharmaceutical company". It seems a sign of the times that the American medical and dental professionals have thrown up their hands and will "over" prescribe "pain killers" and then fail to give patients adequate warning of the dangerous side effects or addictive properties of the drug prescribed. As health insurance benefits have expanded their "payment" quota's patients are able to obtain "larger" prescriptions at reduced costs. In the 1980's the White House overruled the FDA and expanded the how or why and the amount a physician or dentist can prescribe of pharmaceuticals categorized, classed as "controlled substances". These drugs commonly known as "pain killers" or anti anxiety agents include Percocet, Vicodin, Soma, Valium, Hydrocodone and Oxycodone. They are each an opiate, they may contain acetaminophen as well and they are highly, very, addictive. If not taken as prescribed, if combined with alcohol or other illicit substances they may produce an "euphoric" high, allow a user to "relax", or increase the effects of alcohol or other street drugs but they are killing Americans and destroying for the long term so many lives. While drug rehab and drug intervention programs close due to loss of Federal Funding or reduction in health insurance coverage of these needed services the number of Americans risking addiction, risking severe and chronic injuries to their brain, liver, and heart by using "ops", pills, or pain killers has increased. These "street drugs" have become readily available as the FDA fails to enforce regulations from the prescription pad to the pharmacists' inventory. As we fail to say no to an "opiate pain killer" or throw out unused portions of these prescriptions these drugs become available to our children and then unfortunately to our Seniors. No one needs to find a drug dealer. No one needs to know. This silent drug addiction, this terrible secret Americans are keeping, then misusing from their medicine cabinets' needs to be off the "streets". The FDA must reinstitute prohibitions and regulations regarding these "controlled substances". Can we find the money to expand, to build and to provide drug intervention and drug rehabilitation to Americans trapped by this "secret" killer? To provide drug rehabilitation services, rehabilitation centers and drug education programs that address the needs of those only twelve years old and then past the age of fifty five? To educate and start a national campaign to end an addiction that has seen a rise in Americans being disabled by symptoms so curiously similar to the brain disorder known as bipolar disorder. The secret must be "out".
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Depressing it would be to look up the numbers of Americans who lose their dreams and goals, their jobs, families and homes due to the use of "drugs". Overwhelming to understand that as the economic crisis has stolen the same things that there is just not any money for "drug rehab" centers or intervention. It is still common in the United States to believe that cocaine, heroin, and "speed" are the "street drugs" Americans choose to abuse.
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