Why Are Doctors To Blame For Prescription Drug Abuse?

The annual number of prescription painkiller overdose deaths have increased five hundred percent since 1990; but who is there to blame for this drastic increase in numbers? Doctors should be held responsible for the abuse of prescription drugs among people. At first, it seemed that doctors were not taking pain serious enough and they were failing to prescribe the right doses of painkillers to their patients. Sadly, this could have possibly started an epidemic of doctors prescribing too much medication to their patients. How did doctors go from not prescribing enough to making one of the nation's leading causes of death pharmaceutical drug overdoses? Lately, there seems to be a fine line between helping patients and curbing drug abuse. Since doctors seemed to be under prescribing painkillers, they eventually were urged to use the medicine that they had to help the patients feel better. This seemed to have gotten out of hand in the last ten to twenty years. Matt Berry says, “Although prescription drugs are necessary and lifesaving in many circumstances, the correlation between prescription drugs and prescription drug addiction is undeniable”(Are Doctors to Blame for Prescription Drug Abuse?). Doctors are aware of this alarming correlation and should have been
Americans are not skeptical enough about prescription pills. They never really look into what they are taking and that is going to negatively affect their health in the long run. American people will hear that a pill will take away pain and they will do anything to get it. It is truly a disease to be addicted to opioids since you won’t even be able to function without your daily dose because the mind is telling the people that they need it. Other countries are much better off without having all these medications and that will result in a healthier population for those