According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 2500 teens a day use prescription drugs for the first time to get high. Sixty percent of these teens were age 14 and younger.
Clearly the United States has a new drug abuse epidemic on our hands. If trends continue, at an exponential rate of expansion there will be no non-drug abusing youth left to run our country as we reach our golden years. According to the SAMHSA, 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (September 2009) 56 percent of users obtained their drugs free from a friend or relative. The truth about prescription drugs is clearly not known.
By far the best definition about drugs comes from Narconon, a world-wide drug prevention and rehabilitation organization. Narconon states that although drugs are sometimes medically necessary, drugs are essentially poisons. A small amount acts as a stimulant, a larger amount acts as a depressant and enough of the same drug fast enough will kill a person.
The DEA states, "You can’t predict the effect that a drug can have on you". This is true of any drug including prescription drugs. Even when medically given, a drug can have different effects than the one predicted. These are often referred to as "side effects", which are any effect from the drug not the desired effect. There are many drugs that have the "side effect" of death especially when abused. Addiction is another "side effect" that can be just as ruinous or lethal.
The answer to prescription drug abuse is first in the form of education in the true information about drugs. Narconon goes far in this providing drug education lectures and information to millions of school-aged children worldwide. They also do drug education talks to businesses and community groups.
The next answer to prescription drug abuse is safe and effective non-drug rehabilitation for drug abusers. Again Narconon has provided a solution to this with an astonishing success rate that is 4 times that of the international average. The Narconon program as practiced all over the world successfully rehabilitates drug addicts of all addictions.
If you would like more information about the Narconon program, or would like to arrange a drug education lecture to your business, school or community group, contact Narconon East U.S. at 877-237-3307.
