Drug abuse has been a problem for many years in The United States. Illegal drugs like methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana are the most commonly known for abusive behavior. In today’s world, abusers are using prescription drugs more heavily than in the past. Doctors who prescribe narcotics are not required to do background checks on patients to see if they already have a prescription. Narcotics are substances used as a medication or in the preparation of medication and is often referred to as an illicit substance that causes addiction. This is a main reason for drug abuse and overdose. Prescription drugs like hydrocodone, oxycodone, and adderall are prescribed by doctors and are either sold by the patient, or the patient abuses the medication
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When patients get their 30-day supply, they sell or use the medicine and then find a new doctor to prescribe more. It is easy for patients to fake an injury to acquire more pain killing medications. Being easier to acquire, prescription medicine is an easy profit and has turned into an epidemic. Illegally, doctors will prescribe these medicines for money. They are the certified “drug dealers”. To acquire these drugs, people are stealing them from homes, faking injuries, or buying them from dealers. Rules and regulations need to be put in place to stop doctors from prescribing as many opioid drugs. If nothing is put into place, drug abuse will spiral out of control with little to no hope of return. Many addicts have no control over their addiction over a long period of time of abusing the medication. Abusing drugs becomes a part of their life and has become an involuntary need for the body of the addict, causing withdrawal to be very difficult and almost …show more content…
Which is 22,000 people every year. Opioid painkillers (or also called narcotics), originate from the poppy plant and contain morphine and codeine. Prescription opioid drugs act on the same systems of your body as that of heroin and morphine, causing them to be prone to addiction (National Safety Council, NP). Narcotics are separated into different drug classes and schedules based on the effectiveness and the strength of the medication. Schedule, one is for drugs that are not used for medical treatment, these would-be heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine. Schedule two are drugs with a high potential for abuse which includes the drugs cocaine, Vicodin, dilaudid, Demerol, OxyContin, fentanyl, Dexedrine, Adderall, and Ritalin. Schedule three is defined as drugs with moderate to low potential for abuse by patients. Medications in this schedule include testosterone, Tylenol with codeine, and anabolic steroids. Schedule four is defined as drugs with low potential for abuse. Medications in this schedule include Xanax, Darvon, Ativan, and tramadol. Schedule five are drugs that have lower potential for abuse and it is the lowest. This schedule includes Robitussin, Lomotil, Motofen, Lyrica, and Parepectolin (DEA,
When patients get their 30-day supply, they sell or use the medicine and then find a new doctor to prescribe more. It is easy for patients to fake an injury to acquire more pain killing medications. Being easier to acquire, prescription medicine is an easy profit and has turned into an epidemic. Illegally, doctors will prescribe these medicines for money. They are the certified “drug dealers”. To acquire these drugs, people are stealing them from homes, faking injuries, or buying them from dealers. Rules and regulations need to be put in place to stop doctors from prescribing as many opioid drugs. If nothing is put into place, drug abuse will spiral out of control with little to no hope of return. Many addicts have no control over their addiction over a long period of time of abusing the medication. Abusing drugs becomes a part of their life and has become an involuntary need for the body of the addict, causing withdrawal to be very difficult and almost …show more content…
Which is 22,000 people every year. Opioid painkillers (or also called narcotics), originate from the poppy plant and contain morphine and codeine. Prescription opioid drugs act on the same systems of your body as that of heroin and morphine, causing them to be prone to addiction (National Safety Council, NP). Narcotics are separated into different drug classes and schedules based on the effectiveness and the strength of the medication. Schedule, one is for drugs that are not used for medical treatment, these would-be heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine. Schedule two are drugs with a high potential for abuse which includes the drugs cocaine, Vicodin, dilaudid, Demerol, OxyContin, fentanyl, Dexedrine, Adderall, and Ritalin. Schedule three is defined as drugs with moderate to low potential for abuse by patients. Medications in this schedule include testosterone, Tylenol with codeine, and anabolic steroids. Schedule four is defined as drugs with low potential for abuse. Medications in this schedule include Xanax, Darvon, Ativan, and tramadol. Schedule five are drugs that have lower potential for abuse and it is the lowest. This schedule includes Robitussin, Lomotil, Motofen, Lyrica, and Parepectolin (DEA,