The Abuse of Prescription Drugs / Documentary Video


 

The Abuse of Prescription Drugs / Documentary Video – The abuse of prescription drugs is quickly becoming an epidemic. They’re easy to get and simple to distribute. Gone are the days when people need to go to a seedy street corner to get high. Now, they just need to go to a medicine cabinet or visit the doctor. While many communities are just beginning to figure out how to handle this legal drug problem, anti-drug groups in Tennessee have had a head start. For years, Tennessee held the unwanted distinction as the nations top state for prescription drug abuse. That is changing, thanks to hard work and cooperation. The people from Tennessee will share their experiences during this hour-long MCTFT broadcast. There will be no expert panel discussion, just advice from the people in the field. Learn how citizens in Tennessee discovered the problem and took control. Hear from coalition leaders, law enforcement, doctors, pharmacists, insurance executives, and others. See what they did so you can bring it into your own communities. Learning Objectives: See how anti-drug groups in Tennessee discovered the prescription drug problem Find out how cooperation is making a difference Learn what law enforcement officers are seeing and how they are adapting to the new drug problems Hear how health care providers are trying to protect themselves and their patients From the public domain, courtesy of the Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT)

 

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22 Responses to The Abuse of Prescription Drugs / Documentary Video

  • katerosstheboss says:

    doctors make their money off clients. clients get prescribed things like xanax, riddilin, oxycotin, ect. and half the time their clients don’t even need these medications. It is so easy to go into a doctor, lie to the, and? get these drugs as well. America is crazy!

  • MegaDaddyjake says:

    OXYMORPHONE!!!!!!?

  • jimibeckert says:

    Those duragesic patches will get you. They get you really high. It is standard thing to hid your d’s.? hide your d”s. and doctors can turn you into a junkie. There is never enough pills, After time it is better you do heroin. It is cheaper and more powerful.

  • jimibeckert says:

    What are you going to do. Some people need them. Some people will abuse them. They way the state fixes it is to take? them away. What about those who need them?

  • jimibeckert says:

    When they say don’t take with? booze that is actually a recommendation

  • rowtide14 says:

    lortabs 10 mg percocet 10 mg? xanax and them roxy 30 mg

  • OnThatPowder says:

    my trailer burned down, i live at a? homeless shelter

  • DIng Recto says:

    Sell it? with a medical License but in a quick way.

  • pavelcernik says:

    loool go back? to your trailer, trailer trash

  • OnThatPowder says:

    WTF!!! am i High or was there like a monster voice in? the background around 7:40 …….

  • OnThatPowder says:

    u sound real smart. must be from Tennessee, dumb ass fuck? boy. u aint crunk, u aint trill.

  • pavelcernik says:

    and that way? would be ?

  • DIng Recto says:

    Damn I noticed in some states? prescription drugs are sold the same way that “medicinal Pot” is sold in My area here in Oakland.

  • pavelcernik says:

    if some doctor tells me that i or my kids? need to take medication…..i will be like FUCK NO NIGGA HERE SMOKE SOME WEED INSTEAD…….aint no big pharma gonna make me spend thousands of dollars on chemical shit

  • marynespolo says:

    Just ask yourself how so many of these pills are available. its not like somebody makes it in secret.?

  • marynespolo says:

    yeah thanks? for pumping billions of dollars street value into Florida on purpose.

  • bluefox164 says:

    I doubt you ever tried oxymorephone shit does this make you cool now? I must be getting? old last year when i was in 12th grade it was all about dank where the hell did this come from?

  • CPhamGEO says:

    May I have? the director and name of this film for proper MLA format in use of research paper

  • auburn601 says:

    Fuck? hydromorphone Oxymorphone is where it’s at my nigga.

  • xBrittaniKline says:

    No,? not my pills! 😮

  • SuperDelta000 says:

    Prob bets alternative to Opiates is legal Kratom? which can be as strong as Vicodins And also Weed. Its better this than synthetic opiods.

  • sallyglutz says:

    I do have to say something….there are Dr’s, hospitals that won’t give ANYTHING to ANYONE anymore because of the junkies who used and abused them…I have a terminal disease….in a wheelchair….and I have a problem with Dr and Dr….because of the? DA’s who abused it, so now I have to pay for it………………

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