Children and Prescription Drugs Within the past few years‚ more children are being prescribed atypical anti-psychotic medication. Anti-psychotic medications are harmful to children. Parents have a choice rather or not to put their children on this type of medication‚ but they usually let the doctors make that choice for them. However‚ doctors need to stop prescribing anti-psychotic drugs to children due to there being a lack of research on the long-term effects‚ also there are major health issues
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targeting profits mean cutting money that could go toward developing the next new cure. A drug’s price should reflect its effectiveness‚ The “most important factor” that drives prescription drug prices higher in the United States than anywhere else in the world is the existence of government-protected “monopoly” rights for drug manufacturers‚ researchers at Harvard Medical School report today. Patients need to know more about
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Boubelik Engl 102 MWF 3:00pm Yuan Ding 26 March 2012 Abuse of Prescription Drugs in the U.S. "Prescription drugs are the number-one drug problem that we face today‚" says David Rotenberg‚ executive director of the adolescent treatment center at the nonprofit Caron Foundation. "They are more widely prescribed‚ more widely available‚ and more widely abused by adolescents than they have ever been before."(DiConsiglio‚ 1) Abuse of prescription drugs is one of the fastest growing problems for young adults
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Prescription Drug Abuse Research Paper According to results from the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)‚ an estimated 2.4 million Americans used prescription drugs non medically for the first time within the past year. This statistic averages to approximately 6‚600 new people per day who are taking prescription drugs that were not prescribed to them‚ or are not needed to treat a serious condition anymore. More than one-half of the 2.4 million people taking prescription drugs
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Prescription drugs and the effects of overdose In the United States a life is changed every fourteen minutes due to prescription drugs. Overdose from prescription drugs is becoming an really dangerous epidemic. Prescription drugs are becoming more dangerous than illegal drugs. Oxy-cotin‚ Vicoden‚ Xanax and soma are common names for really addictive prescription drugs. Teenagers take the drugs to get high‚ while adults take the drugs for bum knees‚ and sprained backs. No one plans on getting addicted;
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David Kolker Prescription Medication Speech A growing trend not only in our local community‚ but also the whole United States is the abuse of prescriptions medications. The drugs are readily accessible in every household and legal prescribed by doctors. Prescription pill abuse is commonly looked as safe however is now one of the leading causes of crime in our community. According to research done by the Foundation for a Drug Free World‚ in youth ranging in age from 12 to 17‚ 50% of teens believe
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I am writing this informational paper to inform you on the dangers of drugs and why we need drug testing at our school. Drug testing is a good idea since many of the students do take drugs even though staff thinks otherwise. I think drug testing will slow down the intake of drugs tremendously‚ and will be a scapegoat from the any situation where they are offered a drug. There are many long and short term effects of doing drugs and finding a way to stop those effects will help all students. Many long
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argue and say that school drug searches are unnecessary‚ a violation of privacy‚ or wrong. I would beg to differ. Random drug searches in school are necessary from a legal standpoint and for the general health of the student population. In the growing city of West Fargo‚ there are drugs. We may not like the fact‚ or choose to ignore it‚ but the truth is‚ drugs are here and they are an issue. From abuse of over the counter drugs to marijuana to phytanyl and heroin‚ drugs have become an issue here
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Pharmeuticals How do you feel about some prescription drugs? Do they harm us while supposed to be helping us with our health problems? Prescription drugs are supposed to treat and cure diseases when some harm and kill us because they are not being used right or they are being used too much. Most drugs are becoming an addiction‚ and there are more overdoses occurring for over prescription drug use. Pharmeuticals drugs are being used the wrong way and being taken too much when they
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Prescription drug abuse is a modern-day disease. In an estimate‚ over six million Americans have abused prescription medication. However‚ there is no completely accurate way to measure prescription drug abuse. Many people suffer from addiction because of certain doctors’ carelessness in writing prescriptions. When doctors’ are caught intentionally over prescribing abused medications‚ they are typically the punishment for their crimes is very small. Young adults are also beginning to abuse prescription
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