Prescription Drugs
This article in Natural news regarding Americans’ use of prescription drugs is scary. ½ of our population is taking some kind of prescription and many of them are mind altering and lead to drug addiction.
The article points out the truth of the fact that it may be the prescription drug that takes down our nation. The cost is not only measurable in dollars that are being extracted from the health care system and therefore our economy, but is reflected in the general decline of morals and intelligence. People high on drugs can’t contribute much to the bottom line of any economy and end up in drug addiction treatment.
Doped up people marching to the polls in zombie like fashion will be dictating the future of this country more and more, unless the other half that are not doped up, step up and take over.
The article fails to mention that most of these individuals are going to need drug treatment, even if we miraculously stem the pharmaceutical tide that has washed over every shore and even into our drinking water.
This is a must read. Hopefully the next article will point out a direction for concerned citizens.
(NaturalNews) Nearly half of all Americans now use prescription drugs on a regular basis according to a CDC report that was just released (1). Nearly a third of Americans use two or more drugs, and more than one in ten use five or more prescription drugs regularly.
The report also revealed that one in five children are being regularly given prescription drugs, and nine out of ten seniors are on drugs.
All these drugs came at a cost of over $234 billion in 2008. The most commonly-used drugs were:
• Statin drugs for older people
• Asthma drugs for children
• Antidepressants for middle-aged people
• Amphetamine stimulants for children
America has become a nation of druggies. The seniors are being drugged for nearly every symptom a doctor can find, children are being doped up with (legalized) speed, and middle-aged soccer moms are popping suicide pills (antidepressants).
Prescription drug addictions are on the rise, too. Prescription drugs are so dangerous that now even the DEA is hosting “take back your pills” day allowing citizens to anonymously surrender their unused prescription painkillers to DEA agents. (http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news…)
Interestingly, DEA agents will only accept “legal” amphetamine drugs such as Ritalin but not “illegal” methamphetamine drugs. You’re only off the hook if you paid monopoly prescription prices for your drugs.
