Open Question: How Do We Go About Taking on the Pharmaceutical Industry to Build Rehabilitation Centers for Addicts?
Open Question: How do we go about taking on the pharmaceutical industry to build rehabilitation centers for addicts?
Filed under: Methadone Treatment
Millions of Americans struggle with addiction to legal drugs. I feel the pharmaceutical companies need to be held accountable for literally pushing drugs on our society, via TV ads and Dr.s, who all too easily prescribe and over prescribe pain medications and antidepressants as well. The television and magazine ads, are over the top and have contributed greatly to the abuse of prescribing and taking these drugs. Americans are the most medicated and over-medicated people of all developed countries. There is no real treatment available to the people who become addicted, only punishment, which does not rehabilitate. These companies are wealthy, greedy, powerful and care not about people only profit. They have lobbyists who’s sole purpose is to promote, sell and push these ‘legal’ drugs. Prescription drug related addiction, health issues, overdoses, deaths and crimes have now topped those caused by illegal drugs. Entire communities across our nation have been ravaged by addiction to oxycontin and the list of legal drugs goes on. It is time to do something about it, what is and isn’t being done, does not work! It is time to take action to protect our citizens! The small rural town I live in has seen so many deaths of young people, a rise in opiate addiction due to pharmaceutical opiates that leads to Heroin addiction, and all that goes with having that addiction. We build prisons as a solution, which is not a solution at all, we do not build rehabilitation centers, I say let’s go after the pharmaceutical industry and have them build treatment centers, real treatment centers, not methadone clinics which serve only to perpetuate the cycle of addiction and their profit…it needs to stop!
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