How prescription drug abuse costs you money
The site was also a marketplace for firearms, ammunition and computer hacking services. And Ulbricht was accused in separate complaints of paying for the attempted murders of two business associates who he believed had crossed him. The arrest underscores the extensive use of the Internet by criminals who frequently mimic the legitimate business models of Internet retailers. Thousands of drug dealers advertised on Silk Road, and dispatched their products via U.S. mail . The site took a slice of each sale using the Bitcoin online currency. QUIZ: How much do you know about the Bitcoin?
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Adult prescription drug use leads to increased poisonings in kids
He says he got hooked when the pain wouldn’t go away after double hip replacement surgery. When his doctor would no longer prescribe the drug, Bell turned to Craigslist to make his buys. “I went to Craiglist, and I like typed in Oxycontin for the first time and all these things came up. I thought I hit the jackpot,” said Bell. We contacted Craigslist for its response to our story, but the company never got back to us. Craigslist does post the following warning on its website: “Postings connected to or in facilitation of illegal activity are strictly prohibited.” State Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Redondo Beach) wants to take it a step further and ban Craigslist outright for allowing these postings.
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Ashby police prescription drug takeback Oct. 26
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — One study puts the potential overall cost of painkiller abuse at more than $70 billion a year. Pill addicts who shop around for doctors to score prescriptions cost insurers $10,000 to $15,000 apiece. The toll in lost productivity: $42 billion. The criminal justice bill: $8.2 billion. It all adds up. Over the past decade, prescription drug abuse in the U.S. has increased rapidly, to the point that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now labels the problem an “epidemic.” More than 36,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2008, the most recent year for which data has been analyzed, according to the CDC, only a few thousand shy of the total killed by car crashes.
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Prescription drugs sold illegally online – ABC7 investigation
adults has led to more poisonings among children — despite efforts to prevent that outcome. The phenomenon is so concerning that researchers are advising pediatricians to talk with parents about how to safely store prescription drugs away from kids of all ages. The investigators write that despite public-health interventions like educational campaigns and the introduction of child-resistant medicine bottles, between 2001 and 2008, pediatric emergency-department visits due to medication exposures increased 30%, while the rate of hospitalizations increased 36%. Pharmacies’ varied prescription prices A prescription for despair Dr. Gupta on prescription drug abuse Simultaneously, the number of U.S. adults using prescription medications has also gone up. Researchers decided to explore whether there is a connection between the two.
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Just because your doctor prescribed a drug doesn’t mean it’s safe.
Although the drug was removed from the market, the manufacturer, Roche, continues to pay out settlements and jury awards for individuals who suffered serious injury. Antipsychotics have been shown to promote rapid weight gain, elevated lipid and cholesterol levels and higher blood sugar levels. Drugs in this category include Seroquel, Zyprexa, Risperdal and Abilify and are used to treat both serious mental health conditions such as schizophrenia as well as off-label disorders. However, issues of weight gain and cholesterol are of far less concern to the FDA than the risk of long-term neurological and brain damage. The British Medical Journal declared them to be deadlier than terrorism. Opioid prescription pain relievers such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet, codeine and morphine have been shown to cause more fatal overdoses than the illegal drugs heroin and cocaine combined. The CDC has declared that the growing number of prescription painkiller deaths is at epidemic levels.
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Last October, Americans turned in 377,080 pounds, or 188.5 tons, of prescription drugs at more than 5,300 sites operated by the DEA and nearly 4,000 state and local law-enforcement partners. In its three previous takeback events, DEA and its partners took in almost a million pounds, nearly 500 tons of pills. This initiative addresses a vital public-safety and public-health issue. Medicines that languish in home cabinets are highly susceptible to diversion, misuse and abuse. Rates of prescription drug abuse in the U.S. are alarmingly high, as are the number of accidental poisonings and overdoses due to these drugs. Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including from the home medicine cabinet.
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