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Category Archives: Prescription Drug Rehab
Opiate Addiction: A National Debate
With opiate addiction reaching epidemic levels across the United States, physicians, law enforcement and politicians are trying to find a way to help stem the abuse and help the hundreds of thousands of people who suffer from prescription drug addiction. Opiate addiction, a term once synonymous with heroin and morphine, has come to represent commonly prescribed and abused prescription drugs such as Vicodin, Oxycontin and Percocet. Read More
Opiate Addiction: Taking Action as a Community
Opiate addiction rates have reached epidemic levels as a result of soaring painkiller sales around the United States in the last decade. Opiate based painkillers, such as hydrocodone and oxycodone, the main ingredients in prescriptions such as OxyContin and Percocet, are popular prescription options for physicians who want to treat a patient’s pain. Read More
Heroin Abuse Rising As Cheaper Alternative to Prescription Drug Abuse
Prescription drug abuse is an epidemic that’s sweeping the nation, as we’ve all read here countless times. The fatality rates associated with prescription drug overdoses have tripled over the last decade and the numbers are continuing to climb. What we don’t read much about however is how much money prescription pills, opioids especially, are going for on the black market. Thanks to them being the drug of choice for hundreds of thousands around the country, the demand is far outweighing the supply not to mention accessibility now that states are finally starting to crack down on pill mills. A single dose of OxyContin is selling for $80 a pill in certain parts of the country. We can assume that the majority of the population engaging in prescription drug abuse doesn’t have the money to support their habit at exorbitant costs like these, so what options are there? Read More