Narconon warns parents – lock up your drugs! Carelessness with your prescriptions may send your child to the emergency room. According to the following article in Join together, 69 percent of the visits by the children to the emergency room, in 2008, were for accidental ingestion of prescription drugs. In other words, most emergency room [...]
This report, regarding the fact that one in five teens reports using prescription drugs without a prescription is alarming. The drugs they are taking like Oxycontin, Percocet and Vicodin is also cause for great concern. For many it means the college fund will be going for drug treatment.
The fact that our kids are taking life [...]
The ease of getting prescription drugs is getting out of hand. At any point you can go online to the “pharmacies” and order any kind of drug you could possibly think of. Thing that makes this even more scary is the fact that it is somewhat legal. I say somewhat because these pharmacies are located [...]
Xanax Abused by Many, Causing Xanax Addiction
Many are now finding themselves in a drug rehab, unwittingly becoming addicted to prescription drugs.
Myra, a housewife, mother of 4, and grandmother to two, tells her story of her life before coming to The Atlanta Recovery Center to get help to quit her Xanax addiction:
I had a great life, [...]
Teens: Easy to Abuse Prescription Drugs, Often With Deadly Results
Prescription drugs are the most common abused drugs by teens, after marijuana, a study has recently shown.
This is not surprising, as prescription drugs are normally easily available, found in medicine cabinets at home. These prescription drugs, usually opiates such as OxyContin or Percocet, or benzodiazepines, such [...]
Prescription Drug Abuse Causes Rising Death Tolls
There is a common misconception that prescription drugs, because they are prescribed by a doctor, are safe, and for someone who has just undergone surgery or has gone to a doctor for a sprain, prescription drugs can be a God-send.
The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia warns that [...]
Percocet is a Dangerously Addictive Prescription Drug
Percocet has been used successfully to treat various physical pains and surgery recovery. Since it is a combination of a combination of oxycodone, a strong narcotic pain killer, and acetaminophen, better known as the main ingredient of Tylenol, a less strong pain killer, it relieves pain effectively.
Take it for more [...]
Parties Teens Attend Can Be Deadly
You may not know this, but seven of the top ten drugs being abused by teenagers today are legal prescriptions or over-the-counter medications.
What does this have to do with your teen?
Let’s say you have teenagers.
They say that they are going to a friend’s house for a party. You, reminded of [...]
Drug Addicts Often Target Dentists and Doctors
As prescription drug abuse makes more and more headlines, drug addicts are targeting doctors and dentists more and more to “doctor shop” so that they can get more prescription drugs to feed their addiction.
The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia advises doctors and dentists not to become [...]
