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Prescription Drug Addiction on Independence Day
Prescription Drug Abuse Dirty Secret of Health Care
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”While parades marched and fireworks burned yesterday, many American citizens were being denied their life, liberty and pursuit of their own happiness.They are hopelessly entrapped by drug addiction.
While we are fortunate to live in a country where industry is free to pursue expansion, when it comes to pharmaceuticals companies, this freedom comes at great expense to others.The fact is that major pharmaceutical companies are free to rake in millions of dollars, purveying wares of entrapment for others. Prescription drug abuse is a real threat to the personal liberty of millions.
Driven by addiction, drug addicts will doctor shop, clinic to clinic – emergency room to emergency room. If they buy drugs on the black market (where lots of pharmaceuticals wind-up), addicts can get locked up, losing even more of these unalienable rights that are founding fathers fought so hard for.
In Florida, pain clinics have become a big snare in the entrapment business. Pain clinics that do not receive insurance funds are exempt from state inspections – manifestation of a freedom that results in entrapment.
Patients pay cash to receive powerful pain medications with little or no oversight by the prescribing physician, but with a guarantee of repeat business.Intense marketing has resulted in a 150% increase in the number of drug prescriptions written and this in turn has led to a huge rise in the number of those imprisoned by drugs.
In a recent press conference Joseph A. Califano Jr., the National Center on Drug Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University’s director and president said:
"Aggressive marketing of controlled drugs to physicians . . . is designed to increase profits with little regard for abuse potential, Our nation is in the throes of an epidemic of controlled prescription drug abuse and addiction."More than 15 million Americans abuse controlled substances—double the amount from a decade ago, according to a report issued by CASA.
Narconon of Georgia provides drug treatment and education for the entire southeast region.
Narconon Drug Rehab of Georgia is a non-traditional drug abuse treatment program with a 76% success rate.
We offer real freedom so citizens can have the Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness that our founding fathers intended.
