Whatever happened to just using drugs for its actual prescription and not using it in order to get a certain high. I highly doubt that nowadays people buy over the counter drugs for the sake of utilizing its sole purpose. In the United States the use of street drugs are now declining but not because users are quitting but they found a cheaper alternative and that is not illegal to ingest. This is way beyond the drugstores control since these drugs that they sell to civilians are allowed by the government and drug institutions to distribute freely to the public. Drug addicts and avid users can be the most innovative people when they are being restricted from what they have learned to not live without.
Painkiller in Japan
This information is spreading like wildfire and the United States is not the only place in the world that is going through this dilemma. Anywhere in the world where drugs are available anything is possible, even in places that do not have the means to obtain drugs can be infested with drug dealers soon enough. Anyone can use drugs and just about anywhere you can find them. There is no escaping the drug users and pushers; you are bound to meet one at least once in your whole lifetime.
Painkillers would definitely have to be the number one prescription drug out there that people abuse. And second to marijuana as the most commonly used drugs for teenagers. Sadly according to studies almost half of the teens are abusing painkillers and popping them like tictacs.
There is the false notion going on that teenagers prefer taking prescription drugs to get high rather than street drugs because they are safer to take. Almost 50% of them think this mainly because they can be bought over the counter and in establishments that are accredited by the department of health.
Painkillers are highly potent or powerful in nature and mind-altering drugs and using these drugs for a long time despite it being actually prescribed by a specialist can lead getting trapped in your own little world of drug abuse.
One should not take it lightly because the effects of painkillers are too late for someone to notice. Fentanyl painkiller was found to be thirty to fifty times stronger than heroin!
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