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Rx Drug Dealers
Many of those peddling prescription drugs to others are in business to feed their own habit.
Despite all the attention the problem has received, prescription addiction continues to be a growing problem in the U.S. The Louisville Police Department Prescription Drug Diversion Squad says that the number of investigations the unit initiates is up 148 percent from 2009.
The detectives in that unit will make between 500 and 600 arrests this year, and they say that while it’s a lucrative business, most of the individuals they arrest are procuring the pills to support their own habit. Kentucky has the dubious distinction of being one of the worst in the nation when it comes to prescription pill abuse, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
The problem is a complex one. Responsible doctors don’t want to enable addictions, but they also don’t want to refuse to help someone who is legitimately in pain. The problem is, there isn’t a concrete way for doctors to know who, out of those with legitimate pain, might become addicted. Some doctors find the dilemmas associated with prescription addiction so troubling that they no longer prescribe them.
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