1 Out of 12 Doctors Collecting Bonuses for Pushing OpioidsEach day, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notes, 91 Americans die from an opioid overdose, and the numbers keep rising, nearly quadrupling since 2015.1 Knowing that these drugs carry the serious risk of addiction, abuse and overdose, they should be prescribed sparingly and only for the most severe cases of pain, for which no other options are available.
Instead, they are often prescribed widely to treat milder cases of chronic pain, such as that from osteoarthritis or back pain. "In the past decade, while the death rates for the top leading causes of death such as heart disease and cancer have decreased substantially, the death rate associated with opioid pain medication has increased markedly," the CDC noted. "Sales of opioid pain medication have increased in parallel with opioid-related overdose deaths."
It's shocking that, in the midst of this epidemic of opioid overdose deaths, the pharmaceutical industry would still be making payments to physicians to prescribe more opioid products, but this is precisely what's occurring, according to a study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
Read more at https://www.lewrockwell.com/2017/08/joseph-mercola/bigpharma-bribes-doctors/. BADecker, you again
"That's all very normal, nothing to see here- its just medicine, please move on"
I didn't try any drugs when I was young. Have tried recently and you have to be careful not to get addicted these will drain away all your money.
This is correct. depending on the user's mental health, emotional stability, self control etc... Some drugs will make you feel so good, its unbelievable. Then a weak person would be desperately trying to achieve that one incredible high over and over again, before they know it, it has become a a problem, which they will obivously keep denying, and things will only get worse, when someone tries to prove it to the abuser.
Its the same thing with alcohol. People don't realize that they are abusing alcohol, they just drink without giving it too much thought.
its really just a way of looking at it.
Doing drugs are for people who don't have any good future ahead of them. In my opinion, doing drugs is the lowest possible thing a person would do. This destroys relationships, it destroys the future of a person. A person who thinks drugs are making them having a higher status in life well they are not just stupid but have a poor understanding in what matters in this world and thats your self-image.
so much brainwash, wow. I could think of thousands of things that are so much worse than doing drugs.
Taking drugs can be very mind opening, if done correctly. But you should most definately stay away from them, and turn on the news instead.