Why do we live in a prescription drug culture?
Written on October 14, 2009 – 12:42 am | by Drug Abuse Help
We have been waging a "war on drugs" since the 1980s on users and dealers of weed, coke, heroin, etc., yet at the same time prescription drug use in this country has skyrocketed. Antidepressant use has doubled from a decade ago. Parents are so eager to place their children on ADD/ADHD medication when long-term effects of these drugs have not been fully determined. Painkillers have made addicts out of millions. My point is that we seem to be using more big pharma drugs than ever even as we demonize drugs like weed.
Are we really winning a war on drugs or have we started a whole new epidemic of prescription drug abuse?
