IntelliHub February 10 2014
Prescription opioids are killing Americans at more than five times the rate that heroin is, according to the most recent numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Prescription painkillers are among the most abused narcotics in the United States. These drugs are just as addictive and harmful as the hardest street drugs, but because they are legal and prescribed by doctors they are greatly underestimated by our society. This is what makes these drugs so dangerous, since they are socially acceptable many people ignore or overlook their addiction until it becomes a serious problem.
In most cases when someone finally faces their problem they go right back to the doctor that got them hooked on the drugs in the first place to ask for help. At that point they are usually just given different drugs, instead of a real solution. This is seen in the popular but ineffective methadone and suboxone programs, which are responsible for keeping millions of addicts dependent on synthetic drugs.