Prescription drug

“Over 249,000,000 prescriptions for opioids were written in 2013-enough for every adult in America to have a bottle of pills.” (Citation 2). Prescription painkiller abuse is a proportional epidemic in the United States today. 44 people in the U.S. die each day from an overdose in prescription painkillers 1. (Citation 1). For the reason that doctors are the ones that prescribe the medication and pharmacists are the ones that distribute the opioids, there are concerns that they are the ones at…

the Community in Assessment and Decision Making: Prescription Drug Overdose In today’s world, many people are dying in the United States because of prescription drug overdoses. “Every 19 minutes, someone in the United States dies from an unintentional prescription drug overdose. One major contributing factor to the rise in such deaths is the increased use of opioid analgesics” (APHA, 2015). What is alarming is that even though these prescriptions were given for a medical reason, they ended up in…

From 1992 to 2003 prescription drug abuse by adolescents under the age of 18 has increased an extreme amount of 212%. Comparatively adolescents under 18s rate is a shocking 2.6 times higher than the population of over 18(Havens,2011). In 2010 NVSS published data revealing the occurrence of 40,393 deaths due to drug related overdoses in the United States in that year alone(Karin,2013). Between 2011 and 2012 it is estimated that over 1.3 Million adolescents abused prescription drugs in that time…

Prescription Drug abuse Pharmaceutical drug overdoses has become one of the leading causes of death in our nation. When you get sick you go to the Doctors and get antibiotics to get well quicker. We are a nation built on quick and easy fixes. Our value of conveniently easy fixes has lead to over prescribing. Now is the supplier at fault for this abuse or is the supplyie. Do we point the finger at drug companies who push their products while minimizing the potential risks and side effects? Is it…

Paying for prescription drugs is no longer a problem just for the poor. As the economy continues to struggle, the amount of health insurance benefits are shrinking. Employers are requiring workers to pay more of the costs themselves, and many businesses are dropping health benefits altogether. People are dropping their insurance plans trying to save as much money as they can leaving less customers for insurance companies. The result is that remaining customers have to pay a greater fraction of…

Are exorbitant prices for prescription drugs a contributing factor to the high mortality and morbidity rates among Americans patients? Sometimes I often wonder if the issue of one’s inability to pay for their needed meds to get well is the result of some patients dying prematurely, more so, than the actual sickness or disease. As a result of these high prices for prescription drugs, some patients are taking risky measures by not taking their medicines as prescribed. According to the Center for…

elevated drug costs via increasing premiums (“The high prices of prescription drugs,” n.d.). Digging deeper in the mindset of the drug companies, they exploit the blend of regulations that oblige insurance companies to incorporate fundamentally all of the costly medications in their policies (“The high prices of prescription drugs,” n.d.). They also use the logic and mantra that really stipulates that each novel health care good be accessible to the masses (“The high prices of prescription…

The main people being hurt are the patients that need the drugs and the doctors that help those patients. Also the hospitals are being hit hard as well and trying to find some kind of discount for the higher prices. Main Price Gougers in the Prescription Drug Industry: One of the most notable is Martin Shkreli who was recently arrested for fraud in 2015 according to an article in the New York Times. Julie Creswell, Stephanie Clifford and Andrew Pollack (2015) wrote, “Shkreli has emerged as a…

Oye I. Owolewa wrote the article “what the district could do to help curb prescription-drug abuse” this overall is about cutting down drug addiction by having effective solutions to get rid of medications at home. The author makes a good point that “almost two-thirds of teenage prescription abusers get the medications from home or friends”. Proving that having a safe way to discard medications can lower the rate of abusers because they won't have easy access to their parents or friends…

Cracking Down on Drugs Over 52 million people in America have abused prescription drugs at least once in their lifetime as of 2014 (Volkow). This only makes me wonder—what are the statistics like now, a year later? Prescription drug abuse is the non-medical use or overuse of someone else’s or their own prescribed drug. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) classified prescription drug abuse as a national epidemic. People, often teens, believe prescription drugs are safer than illicit drugs but…