In the last 15 years, there has been a substantial increase in the number of prescriptions given out to teens and young adults that could also possibly be abused. Even though researchers are aware that just because there’s the possibility of the drugs being abused, it doesn’t always mean they will be. Nevertheless, they’re still looking at cutbacks. Also, they want the doctors to make sure that the benefits and risks of the prescribed drugs is made clear. The most common drugs were medications for pain, injury, and insomnia. Basically, some are feeling doctors are being too loose in giving out these prescriptions. It is believed it would be effective to educate the doctors about overuse of antibiotics.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40419864/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/
Doing this huge research project on the abuse of prescription drugs seems a little bit tedious to me. Although I did find the increase in doctor visits and prescribed medications interesting, I also thought that it was just some interesting information. The suggestion that there are cutbacks made on prescribing such medications to young adults is just absurd; if a patient needs the medicine, why would you deny them help out of suspicion and statistics. It would make me very angry if my doctor couldn’t give me some useful medication because he suspected I was just another statistic! Also, I’m sure doctors are smart enough to know the effects of drugs on people. Lastly, I think that they can make it as clear as they want to a patient that this drug is very bad if taken recreationally, but that definitely doesn’t mean they’re always going to listen. It’s a personal choice and following a statistic and acting from there seems pretty ridiculous.
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