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Research shows that individuals who received a prescription for some sort of opiate in 2009 refilled their prescription or got another one sometime within the prior thirty days. The director of NIDA (National Institute of Drug Abuse) Nora D. Volk states, “As a nation, it is important that we all become better informed about effective pain management and the risks of abusing prescription painkillers.”
For the past twenty years there has been a steady yearly increase on the use of prescription painkillers. Between the years 2005 and 2009 the number of emergency room visits that were related to abusing prescription drugs doubled. Most individuals who were caught up in the abuse of prescription drugs state that they were getting their drugs through friends and relatives who had prescriptions or that they were abusing their own medication by not taking them as prescribed.
In addition the studies show that part of the reason why prescription drug addiction has become such an epidemic is because physicians are very liberal and quick to write prescriptions and just as quick to refill them. NIDA reports the scary statistic that Dentists are the leading prescribers for individuals between the ages of 10-19 years of age and that nearly 46% of opiod prescriptions were administered to individuals between the ages of 40 and 59. Overdose from prescription drugs is now the second leading cause of accidental death in the United States second only to traffic accidents.
Addiction to prescription drugs can happen in the blink of an eye. What starts off as using prescription drugs as an honest relief for pain can quickly turn into addiction that can ultimately end up ruling an individual’s life making them do things to feed their addiction that they never thought they would. Without the proper help to recover from the physiological and psychological aspects of prescription drug addiction it will be very hard to recover.
