Prescription Drug Overdoses: An American Epidemic
Prescription Drug Overdoses: An American Epidemic – The United States is in the grip of an epidemic of prescription drug overdoses. Over 27000 people died from overdoses in 2007, a number that has risen five-fold since 1990 and has never been higher. Prescription drugs are now involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. For health professionals, policymakers and legislators, addressing this problem is complicated—while they push for education, prevention, and enforcement to reverse this epidemic, they must also ensure that patients with a legitimate need for these medications still have access to them. This important session of Public Health Grand Rounds will address these challenges and explore the innovative state and federal policies and interventions that are showing promise in reducing injury and death from this epidemic. Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: www.cdc.gov This video can also be viewed at www.cdc.gov
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Electronic prescribing is all good and well, but how will millions of people get their correct medicine if? the computer systems fail??
A pragmatic approach would be to induct all these patients into the healthcare system so their medical needs are properly addressed instead? of criminalized.
Typically,? the focus is taken off the focus of the suffering of chronic pain patients and onto the criminality of a problem our government’s policies created
Yeah, like trashing? this BS
immediate action? should be undertaken.
I couldn’t agree more,1600Percent !!! Until drugs are legalized & drug testing is illegal America is not a free country. The drugs laws have ruined more lives than drugs ever could. It amazes me how society supports draconian drug laws yet ? alcohol & cigarettes are socially acceptable. I don’t need big brother telling me what I can & can’t put in my body. They make drug use sound like the plague with all this epidemic BS.
They had to spend an hour talking about this. The solution is simple legalize all drugs and provide people with naloxone (The drug that reverses opiate overdose). The end result would be no death’s as a result of painkiller overdose, less people being converted into first time users by addicts hoping to rip them off and score b/c it would actually be affordable, and a society that can? live without the fear of prosecution? and being labeled as scum for a personal habit.
If its drug prescription abuse an epidemic already, then immediate action should be undertaken.no? time should be wasted to work against it.
that weed was laced man! know your weed and trust who you get it from!?
? ….bloomtoferal is right, YOU are a COUSIN FUCKING retard.
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Not really dipshit considering that your statement is worthless to me same with your first full of shit comment to me. A BA in Zoology? Ha enjoy cleaning out the zebras pen in your local zoo! Listen creep i write code for IBM that requires more of a brain? than your worthless course.
well even though i believe this has nothing to do with a person’s intelligence, i have a BA in biology/zoology, and now im going to? be enrolling in graduate programs, with substantially better grades than a 2.0, hope this helps?
not as retarded as you my friend. I graduated with a? 2.0 in computer science. what do you have bitch?
your? retarded