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I read an article today in which the author compared drug company CEOs to the terrorists who flew the planes on 9/11 – with the noteworthy difference that drug company CEOs kill enough Americans every year to do the damage of 25 9/11s. I don’t know how many of those deaths and injuries could have been prevented by drug detox, but I do know that if I were taking prescription drugs, I’d certainly want to find out if I could live without them.

The article, entitled, If prescription drugs are so good, where are all the healthy drug takers?, was written in 2004, at which time the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) released statistics saying that 100,000 people were killed by prescription drugs each year and another two million plus were injured.

The death and injury toll was actually much higher as it did not include death and injury caused by errors, which some estimates say would double the number of deaths from the medication errors in hospitals alone. Nor did it include much of the prescription drug abuse, dependency and addiction that now account for a major percentage of people going into drug detox and drug rehab programs.

Are things getting any better? In 1992, 2.03 billion prescriptions were dispensed in retail pharmacies alone. That figure reached 2.78 billion in 1998, 3.28 billion in 2005, and 3.42 billion in 2006.  So, no, things aren’t getting any better. If over two million people are injured by those drugs (and that was back in 2004, the situation is worse now), that means that over half of those prescriptions put the drug taker at risk.

The fact is, there are usually other solutions. And they don’t kill you, you don’t become dependent on or addicted to them, and they actually make you healthy.

Unfortunately, many prescription drugs are as dangerous to stop taking as they are to take. If you would like to get off some of your prescription drugs so you can live life drug free, contact a medically supervised drug detox program to help determine whether you need drug detox to get a new start.

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