Narconon Drug Rehab News

April 8, 2010

Prescription Drug Advertising Linked To Addiction

Filed under: Narconon, prescription drug addiction, prescription drug rehab — Tags: , , — nneastus @ 11:39 pm

As Americans daily we hear ads from pharmaceutical companies about the various pharmaceuticals now available to us. We also hear about the many celebrities who die from them or abuse them. 40 percent of teens think abusing prescription painkillers is safer than abusing street drugs according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency .

"We are a pill-taking society", the DEA says. However one main reason for this was that the  Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed direct to consumer advertising of pharmaceutical drugs on television, magazines, newspapers, billboards and other media. Because of this drug treatment programs like Narconon have seen a steady increase of people coming to them for drug rehabilitation for prescription drugs .

According to the DEA , an 80 percent increase in prescription drug abuse has occurred in the last six years, the more direct to consumer marketing of drugs has occurred, the more people there are on drugs.  Reuters and the DEA report, more Americans are dying from prescription drug abuse than ever.

The New England Journal of Medicine notes direct-to-consumer advertising has a significant effect on demand for prescription drugs.  However, Narconon explains that all drugs are poisons, the amount taken determines the effect. However, the ads leave us to believe that "asking our doctor", will give us proper guidance.

Yet the DEA clearly states, "You cannot predict the effect that a drug can have on you." And, the pharmaceutical authorities as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) tell us, "when drugs and vaccines are introduced into the marketplace, unanticipated side effects may become evident."

Narconon drug rehab programs have pointed out for years that drugs are a dead end road. On a temporary basis they may have some benefit, however, given the wide scale abuse of prescription drugs authorities clearly need to review the drug advertising laws.

How is it that the doctor is expected to know what the side effects in full are if the manufacturers don’t know?  The American people should not be the testing ground for prescription drugs.

Pharmaceutical companies know this and so include the inevitable lawsuits that will result from the side effects to their drugs as part of operating costs.  GSK reports of their own company, "The Group is currently a defendant in a number of product liability lawsuits, including class actions, that involve substantial claims for damages related to the Group’s pharmaceutical products."

As a public service Narconon provides the truth about drugs. If you would like more information or know of someone who needs help in coming off of prescription drugs call Narconon , the long standing experts in effective drug rehabilitation at 877-237-3307.

April 6, 2010

America’s Most Deadly Problem

Filed under: Narconon, prescription drug addiction, prescription drug rehab — Tags: , , , — nneastus @ 8:17 pm

Prescription drug abuse after 50 years; growing stronger and now more deaths than ever.

As prescription drug sales grew 5.1 percent last year and have had steady growth for 50 years the number of prescription drug overdoses and emergency room visits continue to rise.

According to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency report , ten percent of all high school students are now abusing prescription drugs.  25 percent of all drug-related emergency room visits are due to prescription drug abuse. Drug rehabilitation centers, such as Narconon , are seeing more and more prescription drug addicts.  Prescription drugs are easier to obtain and now the drug user’s drug of choice beating out marijuana and cocaine. 750,000 doctors are the subject of U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) investigations each year. As the pharmaceutical companies rake in record profits in a down economy, doctors take the fall.

This pattern is not new. In illegal drug trafficking, the major drug cartels seldom see the light of justice. However, the street drug dealer is commonly arrested and does his time, only to deal drugs again in the future.

The newest drug deals are made right in the American living room. Ad after ad is chimed into the American household.  The tune "ask your doctor" might as well as be a prescription itself. The other side of the coin, unknown to most Americans, is the doctor is being chimed at from his own office to sell the drug being promoted.

In the last six months of 2009 Pfizer paid out $20 million to 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals for consulting and speaking on its behalf.  Not to mention doctors are frequently taken to dinner and special events by drug company reps to promote their latest products.

Couple this in with $26 million being spent on pharmaceutical lobbying efforts last year and we have an open track for the newest drug dealing.

One tends to ask, if the products were such life savers, would such tactics be necessary?

Narconon reveals, several prescription drugs are near impossible to withdraw from without professional help, and some have death as a "side effect" and without medical help can prove fatal to withdraw from.

Narconon is probably the largest long standing drug rehabilitation organization in the world with 120 centers worldwide and they are seeing scores of addicts arriving as prescription drug addicts.

Unfortunately, doctors will wind up taking the hit for prescribing the drugs that lead to emergency room visits.  It would be well worth their while to become experts on informed consent laws and thus avoid being the whipping boy of the pharmaceutical companies. Big pharma may be able to pay out billions in legal defense, however, it is unlikely the family doctor is able to.

For more information on the truth about drugs or to help someone addicted to prescription drugs, contact Narconon , the long standing experts in effective drug rehabilitation at 877-237-3307.

January 7, 2010

Pill Mills Major Contributor To Prescription Drug Epidemic

Filed under: Narconon, prescription drug addiction, prescription drug rehab — Tags: , , , , , , — nneastus @ 2:14 am

Narconon East US has been seeing an increasing number of people seeking help for prescription pain pill addiction.  This is not surprising when one takes into account the skyrocketing numbers of new pain clinics in South Florida that has allowed prescription drug trafficking to go unchecked creating many new prescription pain pill addicts.

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy has reported South Florida Pill Mills are proliferating at an alarming rate. In 2007 there were only 4, in 2009 115 were in Broward County, Florida alone.

In Broward County Florida a Grand Jury was convened to investigate the huge increase in Pill Mills in South Florida. The top 25 dispensing doctors of Oxycodone in the Nation are located in Florida with 18 of them in Broward County. In 2008 all 50 of the top 50 doctors dispensing Oxycodone in the Nation were in Florida.  The result is floods of new prescription pain pill addicts.

A Pill Mill is a pain clinic that "treats patient for pain" by dispensing large quantities of controlled substances for non-medical purposes.  Typically they are rogue clinics putting out pills for cash. Patients seeking drugs go to these clinics faking illnesses and complaining of non-existent pain. After the doctor does an "exam" they then prescribe a 30 day cocktail of usually 4 different drugs. The patient then travels to another clinic and goes through the same "dance" obtaining more drugs.  This allows drug dealers and traffickers to obtain enormous quantities of drugs and clinics to profit handsomely and plausibly deny any wrong doing.

Narconon East US provides effective drug rehabilitation in various clinics throughout the East US with three locations in Florida. As people have bee contacting Narconon seeking help for drug addiction the "new addict" is the prescription drug addict.

Prescription drugs as just as harmful as any other drug when abused.  In fact, many prescription painkillers are extremely addictive and have serious side effects.  The Narconon procedure fortunately handles the prescription drug addict just as it does the Heroin addict, however the unfortunate part is that legally operating clinics are the new source of addicts in our nation.

The Grand Jury in Broward County points out Florida was delinquent in  enacting legislation authorizing a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program. 38 States had enacted such legislation and Florida was the largest State that had not despite it also having the top 50 of the nations top dispensing doctors of pain pills.  This of course allowed Florida to be a safe haven for drug traffickers and thus they have flocked to Florida making Florida a High Intensity Drug Trafficking area.

Finally in July 2009 Florida enacted legislation, however, it doesn’t go into effect until December 2010. Meanwhile more and more addicts are formed.  Education about prescription drugs and their potential for abuse is essential.

Narconon East US offers drug prevention, education and drug rehabilitation services. If you would like more information on prescription drug abuse or the Narconon program contact Narconon at 877-237-3307.

July 21, 2009

ADHD Medication Can Cause Addiction and Death

Filed under: ADD/ADHD medication addiction, Narconon, drug treatment, prescription drug addiction, stimulant addiction — Tags: , , , , , — nneastus @ 4:45 pm

This article is for the hundreds of thousands of parents whose children are currently taking prescription medications for Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and for those who have kids now struggling with addiction to amphetamines or stimulants .

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports that more than 4 percent of 12 to 17 year olds have abused prescription medication during a one month period. In addition there are more than 761,000 people abusing stimulants in the United States currently, and prescription drugs remain the most commonly abused drugs next to alcohol.

What many don’t know is that a large percentage of prescription drug and stimulant addicts actually started using these drugs legally or were prescribed them by a doctor at a young age. According to Erica Catton, Director of Promotion for Narconon , East U.S. more and more rehabilitation centers are seeing a large increase in the number of clients coming in for treatment for prescription drug addiction that legally took these drugs or similar ones as a child or adolescent.

One example of this is an ex-addict named John. John was prescribed Ritalin as a kid and later became addicted to cocaine. He explained in a recent interview that both Cocaine and Ritalin gave him the same rush and that the first time he used cocaine the high felt “strangely familiar” to him. Before he knew it, he was hooked on the drug and ended going through the Narconon drug rehabilitation program to handle his addiction.

Now, several years clean, John explains that taking Ritalin as a child opened up the door to his drug addiction. Today, he understands he is one of the lucky ones who were able to get his life back through drug treatment .

When NIDA wrote, “Youth who use other drugs are more likely to abuse prescription medications,” many probably didn’t realize how true that statement really was and how it can also apply in reverse – those who take prescriptions are likely to abuse other drugs down the road.

For those who don’t end up addicts as a result of these drugs, the following information may be enough to steer you from ever allowing anyone you love to take them.

According to a recent study done by Columbia University, there is a link between the use of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) medication and sudden cardiac death in children who were healthy before taking the medication. The study states that out of 546 children who died suddenly, nearly 2 percent were taking stimulants and more specifically the drug, Ritalin.

Right now Ritalin is being prescribed to several million children in the United States.  In some cases, these children are as young as 2 years old. Some of the side effects of this medication include nervousness, insomnia, skin rash, fevers, dermatitis, anorexia, nausea, dizziness, heart palpitations, headaches, drowsiness; blood pressure and pulse changes, cardiac arrhythmia; abdominal pain; weight loss, Tourette’s syndrome and, of course, death.

More than 4 million people in the United States have abused these drugs and other prescriptions and/or are currently addicted to them.  Further information about ADHD and stimulant addiction and effective addiction recovery can be attained by calling Narconon at 877-237-3307.

July 9, 2009

CNN News Features Narconon Graduate on Program

Filed under: Narconon, drug rehab, prescription drug addiction, prescription drug rehab — Tags: , , , , — nneastus @ 5:05 pm

Most recently a Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation center graduate appeared on a CNN news program that covered the problem of prescription pain medication addiction and the recent loss of Michael Jackson, an alleged addict of these drugs.

Ramsy Darwish, a Narconon graduate was interviewed on a CNN news program with Rick Sanchez on a story called America’s "Other" Drug Problem Prescription Medication Abuse . During the interview Darwish shared his own story of addiction and how he became addicted to prescription drugs after a car accident. Ramsy had experimented with drugs during his adolescent years but once on prescription pain drugs he was unable to stop using and had to be admitted into a drug rehab program.

Currently, prescription drugs are the second most abused drug in the country after alcohol and there are more people addicted to prescription drugs than methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin combined in the United States. This was according to the Office of the National Drug Control Policy .

During his interview Ramsy Darwish explained that “once you become addicted to like pain pills and that sort of thing, it is really a necessity that you need on a daily basis. It’s — your life basically resolves around the prescription drug. You wouldn’t want to — you’re not active with people or aren’t really motivated enough to go out into society.”
Admitting his own fear of getting help Ramsy finally wound up in the Narconon drug and alcohol rehabilitation program with the help of his family and has now been off drugs for several years.

With drug treatment admission for prescription pain medication abuse grew 300 percent just during a 10 year period, addiction counselors and specialists around the country are pointing to drug rehab as the only solution to handle what could be considered an epidemic .

If you or someone you know is in need of a drug rehab program for prescription medication addiction that gets results contact Narconon today at 877-237-3307.

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