August 30, 2007
Drug Detox Centers Soon to Be Inundated with Prescription Drug Addicts?
According to WTAP.com, the online community of West Virginia, addiction specialists in Washington county said prescription drugs are the new heroin. A crack-down on heroin several years ago apparently lowered the heroin addiction statistics, but prescription drugs replaced heroin as the drug of choice. And prescription drug addiction and abuse is now the most commonly seen drug problem in the area.
No surprise, really: painkillers are cheaper, legal and more accessible.
Hopefully, that’s not going to last very long. Since the OxyContin hearings, many news stories have focused on getting control over illegal sources for prescription drugs, and it shouldn’t take long for drug detox centers to start seeing the traffic.
The word ‘suicidal’ comes to mind when I look at how far the prescription drug addiction and abuse situation has gone in the last few years. But ‘suicide’ didn’t seem quite right. And I realized that, really, it’s murder. The work of an enemy. Who is the enemy? Well, it’s not the guy checking into drug detox, of that I’m quite certain.
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