Prescription Drugs Misuse, Abuse, Overdose & Diversion Video
Prescription Drugs: Killing More Than Pain; Sponsor: Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT)/CADCA; Program Description: When America entered the new millennium, it entered a new era in the world of drug abuse. From the streets of the cities to the secluded family homes in the suburbs, prescription drug abuse is a problem that’s spilling out of pill bottles and into the lives of millions all across our country. Back in 2000, about 1.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs. Two years later, that number quadrupled — to more than six million. That’s a 400% increase. Thousands of people die each year because they overdose on prescription medications. Many abusers think they’re an FDA-approved high, while others become addicted after using powerful painkillers to treat legitimate pain. During this broadcast, learn how abusers are getting their drugs and how law enforcement, doctors, and pharmacists are fighting the problem. Hear from recovering addicts, treatment providers, doctors, robbery victims and more. Prescription drugs kill much more than pain. Program Objectives: Learn what prescription drugs are abused. Learn how doctors can better treat pain. See what would help pharmacists spot forged and altered prescriptions
See what tactics work for law enforcement
Find out what drug companies are doing
Know where to go for help. Prescription drugs, a category of psychotherapeutics that comprises prescription-type pain relievers, tranquilizers, stimulants, and sedatives, are among the substances most commonly abused by young people in the United States. Prescription drugs are readily available and can easily be obtained by teenagers who abuse these drugs to experience a variety of desired effects. Often these young people are unaware of the serious health risks involved in abusing prescription drugs. Increasingly younger adolescents obtain prescription drugs from classmates, friends, and family members, or they steal the drugs from school medicine dispensaries and from people for whom the drug had been legitimately prescribed. Keywords: narcotics. Prescription drugs, which are widely available and easy to obtain, provide young people with an easily accessible, inexpensive means of altering their mental and physical state. Abusers may experience a heightened sense of pleasure, euphoria, drowsiness, increased energy, or various other effects depending upon the drugs they abuse. Young people who abuse prescription drugs put themselves at risk of experiencing dangerous side effects. Prescription drugs–when taken as prescribed by a physician–successfully treat a variety of mental or physical conditions. However, when abused, these drugs can alter the brain’s activity and lead to debilitating or life-threatening health problems and result in physical or psychological dependence. Public domain video.
Duration : 1:0:11
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Tags: Abuse, diversion, drug, drugs, medication, medications, narcotics, pharmaceuticals, pills, prescription, prescriptions, Substance
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
addicts are so …
addicts are so smart going to the emargency room wasting hours and hours waiting to be seen and just gettin mehre crumbs 10-15 tablets per visit and messing up there credit with hospital bills.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
So explain all the …
So explain all the celebrities that die of prescription drug overdose…we have a problem…we are going after the trendy narcotics…the DEA helps.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
abused?
these drug …
abused?
these drug are bad
no one should be taking them
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Just more made up …
Just more made up propaganda from the cowards and sociopaths of the DEA. Instead of going after real criminals they go after doctors and peaceful pot smokers and growers. This is another made up ‘crisis.’ Because of propaganda like this legitimate patients suffer every day. the DEA!
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
i was p[rescribed …
i was p[rescribed oxycontin for 3 years, on top of that, i was already a heroin addict and a script of OCs was great at the time.
im also addicted to benzos, been on valium for 4 years and now im on methadone so iv seen my share of perscription drug abuse…its nasty .
if you have kids, LOCK YOU MEDS UP, count the pills, miss nothing coz thats where it starts.
be smart or you WILL end up having a tip for a body. one extra pill can and will kill.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
that happens to me …
that happens to me alot man….and its hard coz im tryn to come off 8 year addiction so i realy shouldnt be watching this.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
there is no “war on …
there is no “war on drugs”…wars end.
there will always be drugs and drug users.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
America’s drug …
America’s drug policy is evil! So is the DEA! Keep your laws off of my body! The war on drugs is not working… you are just giving the illegal drug cartels more money, power and reasons to commit violence! Legalize it and pull your heads out of your (those who think the government should keep marijuana illegal)! and TheFragile89, saying people should not be prescribed drugs ever? How stupid can you be moron! Read what you wrote and think again! Legalize drugs and save money and lives!
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Hey, sorry about …
Hey, sorry about all the stupid kids out there, BUT there is no excuse for the GOVERNMENT to be making any kind, let alone prescription drugs ILLEGAL only for certain people…pain patients WHO NEED IT. The doctors seem to have NO PROBLEM giving out scripts to druggys as long as noone has divulged a persons ANONYMITY or they believe you have a problem. My bible says that it is not what goes into a man that is unclean, but what proceedeth out of the man. Like evil judgements on users or SH*T.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
cocaine is a …
cocaine is a schedule 2 drug- not a schedule 1- used as anesthetic in eye, ear , nose and throat surgery
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
A friend of mine, a …
A friend of mine, a doctor, she abuses opiates. She gets them prescribed to her and she takes a month worth in a week and then withdrawls and then goes to an emergency room to get the morphene and more prescriptions and it goes on and on with games and lies and lies and lies—going to many doctors and paying cash to not get flaged at the pharmacy withtoo many same prescriptions the same month; what a waste of life; she loses jobs and friends and dignity–you name it. HYDROCODONE ETC
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
after that video i …
after that video i need some drugs!
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
It sucks watching a …
It sucks watching a family member kill themselves on pain medication and not know what to do!
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
People should not …
People should not be prescribed drugs ever. Unless they have a serious condition. It’s pretty sick that doctors hold back on telling patients everything they should know about them, so the patients aren’t scared off and the doctors can feel like they are doing their job. Depression, anxiety, and other factors can be overcome without the use of drugs.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
yes, I know what …
yes, I know what you are tryng to say, it is prescribed as micro grans
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Your being …
Your being misinforming, Yes it is 50 times stronger than morphine but they prescribe, by size, smaller amounts.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Fentanyl is a …
Fentanyl is a narcotic is 50x more powerful than morphine. It seems the kid was not very tolerant and he had resperatory arrest or cardiac arrest. If you are thinking of taking prescriptions I will be making a video on how to use them so you wont die. I really should be telling you dont use, but I cant stop you.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Fuck the DEA and …
the DEA and FDA!!!!!!!!!!
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I am a pain patient …
I am a pain patient. Suffered for 30 years because my doctors say they are afraid of the DEA and the states medical boards. Treating pain patients like criminals because 1% to 3% of our population chosses to abuse leagl and illegal drugs is criminal but that’s the result of this failed war on drugs!What’s next, put cigerette smokers and alcohol drinkers in prison too? How about a war on poverty and leave the drug problem to medical professionals who are trained to deal with addiction!
In Pain.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
coke is schedule 2
coke is schedule 2
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Amen! I have been …
Amen! I have been under treated for pain for years and suffer daily. Patients are not believed and labeled as drug seekers. I worked in a ER and my job was to flag anybody who received narcotics. They were all labeled. Some of these people were dying of AIDS, Cancer, and other diseases like broken bones, burns. They were labeled.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Well this is all …
Well this is all well and good, but the bottom line is that the legitimate pain sufferers are not being treated with the medications that they need due to the war on drugs.
In the state of Ky your chances of being properly treated for pain issues are slim to none.
My daughter was given only 12 pain tablets after an appendectomy/endometriosis combo surgery, so you tell me who is suffering from the war on drugs.
I’m all for fighting illegal drugs, but PLEASE forget about those in need of them
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
I had 3 ruptured …
I had 3 ruptured disks in my lower back and had 2 disks removed and had braces and screws added.You say there are other treatments and i say bullshit, i have had cortizone shots and injections numerous times.Iv’e been to therapists and chiropracters.And none of it helps.I live on heating and cold ice packs and take meds to take the edge off of pain.And to be honest i rather take medicines that help and live 10 years then live 30 years and have a pain level of 8.Thank you and have a nice day.
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
pills dont kill …
pills dont kill people, stupid motherf*ckers with pills kill people
August 20th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
It is true that …
It is true that life can really suck sometimes, but popping a pill is not the answer. The quick fix mentality is a lie and you may suffer side effects and addiction. Your life will go from bad to worse.