Prescription Drug Overdoses: An American Epidemic
Prescription Drug Overdoses: An American Epidemic – The United States is in the grip of an epidemic of prescription drug overdoses. Over 27000 people died from overdoses in 2007, a number that has risen five-fold since 1990 and has never been higher. Prescription drugs are now involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. For health professionals, policymakers and legislators, addressing this problem is complicated—while they push for education, prevention, and enforcement to reverse this epidemic, they must also ensure that patients with a legitimate need for these medications still have access to them. This important session of Public Health Grand Rounds will address these challenges and explore the innovative state and federal policies and interventions that are showing promise in reducing injury and death from this epidemic. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: www.cdc.gov This video can also be viewed at www.cdc.gov
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Thank you for acknowledging that. I live with pain every day of my life, ( for 21 years so far…) and other symptoms. Most people don’t believe me, or don’t care. I have amassed a huge amount of drugs to take to end? it all. I am not scared of dying, but scared of surviving a suicide attempt. I just want to escape my non-life.
the rfid chips in each? and every pill still be trackable by some entities. Plus maybe that is part of the plan, planning on the system to fail and setting up a control mechanism in response to the created problems!!
Electronic prescribing is all good and well,? but how will millions of people get their correct medicine if the computer systems fail??
A pragmatic approach would be to induct all these patients into the healthcare? system so their medical needs are properly addressed instead of criminalized.
Typically, the focus is taken off the focus? of the suffering of chronic pain patients and onto the criminality of a problem our government’s policies created
immediate action should be undertaken.?
If its drug prescription abuse an epidemic already, then immediate action should be? undertaken.no time should be wasted to work against it.
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Everything in life carries a risk. As a chronic pain suffer pain medication has allowed me to have a quality of life back. The war on drugs is a bigger problem than the so called “prescription drug problem”. Pain medication should not be a privilege it should? be a right !!!
Thank you for the research and posting this. ?