Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Are Prescription Drugs Creating Addiction? Part 1

You can not escape from their. Prescription drugs over the TV, every channel filled with advertisements, pill; pill will make our lives better. Have allergy pills, pills for heart problems, the problem of pills, pills pills for blood diseases and depression.

You need these pills to be healthy and happy. Madison Avenue and the pharmaceutical industry, the United States created a great need of contraceptive pills.

Doctors are causing problems?

I do not intend to while away from Washington for legitimate medical use of contraceptive pills. Did not happen, but the real exciting advances in medicine has taken a back seat to the temptation of enormous profits. The pharmaceutical companies visit clinics and hospitals, to promote their products to doctors. Use our drugs, and drugs is not the message. There may or may not be in financial incentives, doctors said, depends on the personal ethics. But morality is the core of the problem.

Milwaukee Journal - Sentinel ran the front-page article GINA Button in the programme on February 24, entitled "lethal drugs, deadly access" to tell the story of unintended consequences of prescription drugs. Patton said the story Dalieer Collie), they overdosed on painkillers combination of oxycodone and diazepam.

Collie)'s father Alfred, and mutual trust to take care of physicians. He does not know what to do. His son received drugs from his primary care physician, they will be sold later to the prison prescription. He also wrote a script doctor, he said, doctors will conflict with the law, writing "huge addictive prescription pain medicine." Dalieer also will be drugs from the third doctor, who has conducted a survey, the same problem. On sanctions on the story of three doctors from the Medical Research Council of Wisconsin.

How Collie) were three different doctors writing prescriptions?

The article focused on the doctors go beyond accepted limits of medical practice. Even if there were no ethical problems, for some doctors, and there is no way to prevent the problem from happening again.

Once a person has become addicted, they need a cleaver, so as to ensure that there is a constant source of their drug (s) of choice. Emergency departments are facing more than the state-seeking patients every day.

They receive treatment.

They requested treatment. They sue if they do not receive treatment.

Protected by the law, their right to abuse the system.

If the triage nurses in hospitals, we can access to the database, see the patients have been given prescriptions for X, Y and Z? If a primary care physician to the Internet at any time, be aware of our new patients have received these prescriptions from other physicians?

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