Suboxone (generic name: buprenorphine) has been called a miracle drug in the treatment of opiate addiction by doctors and addicts alike. It has been a legal prescription drug since Congress went out of its way to pass the Drug Addiction Treatment Act of 2000, which was solely aimed at allowing suboxone to come to market. Suboxone has been shown to save lives, reduce crime and reduce the spread of HIV infections. To top it off, unlike methadone, suboxone is almost impossible to over-dose on and it is not addictive. Read More
Suboxone – Miracle Drug Relegated to the Streets
Put a face to Oxy Epidemic
If you want to put a face to the epidemic problem of painkillers in the USA, take a look at this video by the folks over at Oxy Watchdog. Thanks Erin for sharing your story about your brother, Pat, and for allowing others to share their stories on your Memory Wall
Prescription Drugs and America’s War on Drugs
Here’s a surprising and somewhat alarming statistic that was recently released by the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA):
Of the 36,450 overdose deaths in the United States in 2008
20,044 were from prescription painkillers,
more than all the illicit drugs combined.
Does the Military test for Spice?
The Military is taking a serious approach to Spice or synthetic cannaboid use in 2012. The Pentagon recently released figures to the Associated Press that showed in 2011, 497 airmen were punished for spice use, 700 Marines and sailors were investigated for spice use and 119 soldiers received medical treatment after smoking it. Read More
Most Small Businesses don’t drug test
Running a business is difficult, whether your business is large or small. Having trustworthy and drug free employees should not be a worry for business owners, but unfortunately this is not the case. Most large companies have a drug test policy with 80% of Fortune 500 companies drug testing their employees. This fact can deter drug users from applying with those companies. The alternative to applying to big companies for fear of drug testing, is applying to small businesses. Read More
Abundant Supply of Painkillers
According to the Center for Disease and Control, enough prescription painkillers were prescribed in 2010 to medicate every American adult around-the-clock for a month. While prescription painkillers were initially formulated to help people cope with pain—in today’s day and age, more and more people are using them to get high.
Considering that the quantity of prescription painkillers sold to pharmacies, hospitals, and doctor’s offices was four times larger in 2010 than in 1999, it’s no surprise that more and more prescription painkiller overdoses are occurring. Looking at it from a world view, the United States consumes over 80 percent of the world’s opium which is the active ingredient in painkillers, however we only have 4.6 percent of the world’s population. Read More
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