Medicine Cabinet Abuse

Chances are what is in your medicine cabinet is quite different than what was in your mother’s medicine cabinet when you were growing up or even what you had in your cabinet ten years ago.

“According to the Drug Enforcement Agency, Americans are buying 90 percent more painkillers containing codeine, morphine, oxycodone and meperidine than they did 10 years ago,” comments Mary Rieser, Executive Director for Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia. “The Associated Press states that we buy 200,000 pounds of painkillers every year - that’s enough to give 300 mg to everyone in the country. Are we in that much pain?

“It comes as no surprise that prescription drug abuse is on the rise with our youth, with seventeen year olds reporting that it is easier to buy prescription drugs than it is cigarettes or beer. And abusing prescription drugs is a short path to drug addiction.

“What is surprising is society’s numbness to the problem.”

The National Institute on Drug Abuse recently stated that marijuana use among teens has declined in the past few years, but more teens are abusing prescription drugs than any illicit drug except marijuana.

Many teens (41 percent) mistakenly believe the abuse of prescription medicines is less dangerous than abuse of illegal drugs. However, teen abuse of prescription medications is serious, because teens use prescription and over-the-counter drugs in combination with alcohol, which can lead to dangerous drug interactions or other medical consequences, as well as drug addiction.

Our youth are the future. Unless this trend changes, society’s future will be sculpted through a haze of unconsciousness.

"This has quietly and insidiously grown into a big problem," said Tom Riley, a spokesman for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. "It's not a creepy guy in an overcoat pushing drugs - this is about medications that are in your home. Prescription drugs are the drug of choice for teens who are trying drugs for the first time. They are getting drugs from their parents' or their grandparents' medicine cabinets."

We still have a chance to change trends now and if we don’t, it is unlikely that someone will in future generations.

Whose mind is going to be clear enough to think?

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