As prescription drug sales grew 5.1 percent last year and have had steady growth for 50 years the number of prescription drug overdoses and emergency room visits continue to rise.
According to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency report, ten percent of all high school students are now abusing prescription drugs. 25 percent of all drug-related emergency room visits are due to prescription drug abuse. Drug rehabilitation centers, such as Narconon, are seeing more and more prescription drug addicts. Prescription drugs are easier to obtain and now the drug user's drug of choice beating out marijuana and cocaine. 750,000 doctors are the subject of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) investigations each year. As the pharmaceutical companies rake in record profits in a down economy, doctors take the fall.
This pattern is not new. In illegal drug trafficking, the major drug cartels seldom see the light of justice. However, the street drug dealer is commonly arrested and does his time, only to deal drugs again in the future.
The newest drug deals are made right in the American living room. Ad after ad is chimed into the American household. The tune "ask your doctor" might as well as be a prescription itself. The other side of the coin, unknown to most Americans, is the doctor is being chimed at from his own office to sell the drug being promoted.
In the last six months of 2009 Pfizer paid out $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on its behalf. Not to mention doctors are frequently taken to dinner and special events by drug company reps to promote their latest products.
Couple this in with $26 million being spent on pharmaceutical lobbying efforts last year and we have an open track for the newest drug dealing.
One tends to ask, if the products were such life savers, would such tactics be necessary?
Narconon reveals, several prescription drugs are near impossible to withdraw from without professional help, and some have death as a "side effect" and without medical help can prove fatal to withdraw from.
Narconon is probably the largest long standing drug rehabilitation organization in the world with 120 centers worldwide and they are seeing scores of addicts arriving as prescription drug addicts.
Unfortunately, doctors will wind up taking the hit for prescribing the drugs that lead to emergency room visits. It would be well worth their while to become experts on informed consent laws and thus avoid being the whipping boy of the pharmaceutical companies. Big pharma may be able to pay out billions in legal defense, however, it is unlikely the family doctor is able to.
For more information on the truth about drugs or to help someone addicted to prescription drugs, contact Narconon, the long standing experts in effective drug rehabilitation at 877-237-3307.
