Prescription Drugs Are Killing Twice as Many People via Overdose as Street Drugs

Question by bassdoc: Prescription drugs are killing twice as many people via overdose as street drugs
This is true in Miami, a city well known for illicit drugs, and certainly sure for the entire country probably at a higher rate.
What can we do to educate people that you cant drug yourself into health or happiness.
Heath Ledger is dead, and now they are question Mary Kate about where he got the drugs from. Should she be in prison.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/us/14florida.html

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Answer by “Big Guns Upstairs”
Goes to show that humans still find a way to kill themselves, no matter what you make illegal.

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6 Responses to Prescription Drugs Are Killing Twice as Many People via Overdose as Street Drugs

  • novice says:

    Hispitals and prescription drugs come right after cancers and heart attacks/strokes. Wrongly filled prescriptions account for a high death rate—and believe it or not, so do hospitals.

    I’ve personally gone through some serious interaction of drugs as well as side effects and decided about 2 years ago that I’ve had it with prescription drugs because ALL of them have some side effects, even creams and eye drops. I went on natural supplements and lo and behold–I’m back to perfect health…
    I am not sure if education would help—for example, how many people realize that muscle relaxers can be addictive? And look at another issue: when you have major surgery, doctors turn to prescribing tons of pain killers freely. A supply of 30 Tylenol-3 for some minor back pain? As long as these doctors do not limit their prscribing and do so after a patient calls in–that long will you have prescription drug addiction…

  • Michael T says:

    Yes.. you can abuse any drug weather it is prescribed or not.. There is a rise in youth taking whatever pills they can find..
    Some people do not need the medications that they think they do and some doctors should not prescribe certain meds as easily as they do.

    Basically if you do not take presciption as directed you can suffer adverse consequences.

    Please list your sources to back up your claim.

  • smorandi06 says:

    It’s not an oxymoron. It’s about prescription drug addiction.?

  • John Winning says:

    The title is an oxymoron. Nuff said. Prescription leads to addiction.?

  • smorandi06 says:

    It’s not an oxymoron. It’s about prescription drug addiction.?

  • Stop Addiction By Prescription says:

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