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"Whitaker: "There is currently a nationwide epidemic of prescription drug abuse in this country. In a report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, it was revealed that this type of drug abuse had nearly doubled from 7.8 million to 15.1 million from the years 1992 to 2003. Not only that, but teen abuse of prescription drugs had tripled. In 2003 there were 2.3 million kids between 12 to 17 years old who were abusing at least one prescription drug. This opens the gateway to illegal drug use." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "It is easy to see then that prescription drug abuse leads the way to illegal drug use and addiction." "Do you have any examples of this happening? " Dr. Whitaker: "There is a story of a couple in West Virginia who were no longer prescribed OxyContin213 by their doctor and so they start to take heroin, which costs much less than the black market pharmaceutical would on the street. OxyContin is actually a suitable substitute for heroin." " With your work on so many patients, are there times when natural and complementary supplements and therapies don't work as well as conventional drugs? Dr." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Most alarming was the 212 percent rise of prescription drug abuse found among teenagers during those years. Some parents had become unwitting drug pushers, the researchers said, by filling their bathroom cabinets with addictive prescription narcotics, depressants, and stimulants. But there was more behind the rise in addiction than medicine chests stocked full. Today's children are the first generation to grow up with omnipresent prescription drug ads." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"What all this means is that prescription drug abuse is not only a personal problem, but also an institutional one. Making and marketing drugs is what pharmaceutical companies do (we'll return to this issue at the chapter's conclusion); prescribing drugs is what physicians do; retailing them is what pharmacists do. For better or worse—and both outcomes are evident, though the latter is more frequent—each of these legal activities is tremendously profitable." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Our nation is in the throes of an epidemic of controlled prescription drug abuse and addiction." The following are just a sample of the results of the CASA study: • From 1992 to 2002, prescriptions written for controlled drugs increased more than 150 percent, almost 12 times the rate of increase in population and almost three times the rate of increase in prescriptions written for all other drugs. • From 1992 to 2003, abuse of controlled prescription drugs grew at a rate twice that of marijuana abuse, five times that of cocaine abuse and 60 times that of heroin abuse." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"In case you think prescription drug abuse is uncommon, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service Administration's 1993 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 138 million Americans are abusing alcohol, nearly 19 million are abusing marijuana, over 10 million are abusing illicit drugs such as cocaine, crack and heroin and over 11 million people are abusing prescription drugs. Other surveys estimate that as many as 50 percent of the drug overdoses treated in the hospital are a result of prescription drug abuse." - Earl L. Mindell, R.Ph., Ph.D., Prescription Alternatives, Third Edition: Hundreds of Safe, Natural Prescription-Free Remedies to Restore and Maintain Your Health (Get the book.)

"In case you think prescription drug abuse is uncommon, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service Administration's 2001 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, 16.6 million Americans are abusing either alcohol or illicit drugs such as cocaine, crack, and in heroin and between 4 and 6 million people are gesics), sedatives, tranquilizers, and stimulants. abusing prescription drugs. Our guess is that the Of the top 10 prescribed drugs in the United numbers for prescription drug abuse are much States, three are narcotic painkillers." - Earl L. Mindell, RPh, PhD with Virginia Hopkins, MA, Bottom Line's Prescription Alternatives (Get the book.)

"Although prescription drug abuse affects many Americans, many troubling trends can be seen among older adults, adolescents, and women. In addition, health care professionals - including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, anesthesiologists, and veterinarians - may be at increased risk of prescription drug abuse because of ease of access, as well as their ability to self-prescribe drugs." - American Medical Publishing, Prescription Medicines, Side Effects and Natural Alternatives (Get the book.)

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