Prescription drug abuse has become an epidemic in the United States especially among the youth of our country. The Partnership for a Drug Free America says that 2‚500 teens a day abuse prescription drugs. Abuse of these narcotics can lead to serious mental and physical consequences. Why is this such a problem‚ what can we do to solve it‚ and how is it affecting our social lives? First we must explore what prescription drugs are being abused. The most popular abused drugs fall into three categories
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nurses were surveyed anonymously about drug abuse and 20% admitted to misusing at least one prescription drug. In another 1999 report‚ nurses were surveyed anonymously about drug abuse‚ and 20% admitted to misusing at least one prescription drug. Easy access was highly correlated with drug misuse. Nurses reported to use: opioids 60%‚ tranquilizers 40%‚ sedatives 11%‚ amphetamines 3.5%‚ and inhalants 1.9%. Of the top 17 abused prescriptions in 2013‚ 16 of the drugs (94%) are classified as Schedule II
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Children and Prescription Drugs Within the past few years‚ more children are being prescribed atypical anti-psychotic medication. Anti-psychotic medications are harmful to children. Parents have a choice rather or not to put their children on this type of medication‚ but they usually let the doctors make that choice for them. However‚ doctors need to stop prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to children due to there being a lack of research on the long-term effects‚ also there are major health issues
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Topic: Consumers are faced with increasing numbers of advertisements from competing companies. To what extent do you think are consumers influenced by advertisements? What measures can be taken to protect them? In today’s material world‚ we are inundated with various form of advertising and everyone has different perspective about them. In my view‚ advertisements are dangerous as they encourage us to buy things without thinking‚ and young people‚ in particular‚ need to have some protection from
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targeting profits mean cutting money that could go toward developing the next new cure. A drug’s price should reflect its effectiveness‚ The “most important factor” that drives prescription drug prices higher in the United States than anywhere else in the world is the existence of government-protected “monopoly” rights for drug manufacturers‚ researchers at Harvard Medical School report today. Patients need to know more about
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Pharmeuticals How do you feel about some prescription drugs? Do they harm us while supposed to be helping us with our health problems? Prescription drugs are supposed to treat and cure diseases when some harm and kill us because they are not being used right or they are being used too much. Most drugs are becoming an addiction‚ and there are more overdoses occurring for over prescription drug use. Pharmeuticals drugs are being used the wrong way and being taken too much when they
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Prescription Drug Abuse in America Illegal drugs in the United States have been a topic of discussion for as long as anyone can remember. For years we have been fighting a war against drugs and this paper will not reflect current trends of illegal drugs‚ but will show that the new problem these days in America is prescription drugs. According to state law enforcement officials‚ “An analysis of 168‚900 autopsies conducted in Florida in 2007 found that three times as many people were killed by legal
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Advertising & Consumer Sovereignty Advertising in the modern day has developed alongside the advent of business ethics as a scholarly and academic practice. As the ethical environment of business has seen a surge in study and discipline‚ advertising has undergone even more intense scrutiny and discussion. Though advertising and criticism is no new marriage as it has been under the microscope since its takeoff in the 1930s‚ developments in both approach by advertisers and its critiques has
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When it comes to the topic of prescription drugs being regulated‚ most of us will readily agree that this is a big concern for many Americans. Where this argument usually ends‚ however‚ is on the question of why do Americans pay some of the highest prices for prescription drugs compared to other countries. Whereas some are convinced that these high costs are set solely for the fact of the amount of money spent on producing these drugs‚ others maintain that there is an opportunity for medication prices
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In United States‚ we have a major problem with the addiction of prescription drugs. “Prescription drugs are playing an increasingly larger role in U.S. life‚ with nearly half of all Americans taking one or more medications” (Thompson 2013-2014). “Since I went to pharmacy school‚ I learned Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) and FDA rules and regulation which made me wonder about how and why misuse and abuse of prescription drugs costs the country an estimated of $53.4 billion‚ which is very
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