Can we just focus on driving up the addiction rate ? Tell your docs - Keep Grandma Flying But Not So Much That She Be Dyin' -We wants Buyers Not Die'ers
The epidemic of opioid overdoses is continuing to take its deadly toll on Americans: The rate of deaths involving prescription painkillers like Oxycontin and Vicodin more than tripled between 1999 and 2012, according to a new CDC report. The heroin-related death rate is also on the rise, increasing nearly threefold in the same time period.
The burgeoning opioid epidemic can be traced back to the late 1990s, when doctors began aggressively prescribing the drugs for chronic pain — a shift that Kolodny, also chief medical officer for Phoenix House, a nonprofit addiction treatment agency, blames on marketing campaigns launched by the makers of prescription painkillers.
These aren’t necessarily the young pill poppers you might expect: The average painkiller overdose occurs in an adult between the ages of 45 to 54, says Kolodny. “It’s middle-aged folks,” he says. “This is a group that doesn’t have to switch to heroin because they’re able to get pills from doctors. In fact, the increase in overdose deaths and medical visits for opioids has been greatest in the middle-aged and elderly population.”
Remember - just enough to try it, just enough to buy it !!! Keep Selling !!
The epidemic of opioid overdoses is continuing to take its deadly toll on Americans: The rate of deaths involving prescription painkillers like Oxycontin and Vicodin more than tripled between 1999 and 2012, according to a new CDC report. The heroin-related death rate is also on the rise, increasing nearly threefold in the same time period.
The burgeoning opioid epidemic can be traced back to the late 1990s, when doctors began aggressively prescribing the drugs for chronic pain — a shift that Kolodny, also chief medical officer for Phoenix House, a nonprofit addiction treatment agency, blames on marketing campaigns launched by the makers of prescription painkillers.
These aren’t necessarily the young pill poppers you might expect: The average painkiller overdose occurs in an adult between the ages of 45 to 54, says Kolodny. “It’s middle-aged folks,” he says. “This is a group that doesn’t have to switch to heroin because they’re able to get pills from doctors. In fact, the increase in overdose deaths and medical visits for opioids has been greatest in the middle-aged and elderly population.”
Remember - just enough to try it, just enough to buy it !!! Keep Selling !!