Prescription drug addiction indicative of a sick nation!
The growing taste for prescription opioids in the FPSA is a concern. What is it about our way of life that necessitates such relief?
LONDON, England (PNN) - April 12, 2012 - Amerikans really like to pop pills. Amerikans are increasingly strung out on prescription opioids, with sales ballooning from 2000 to 2010. In some parts of the Fascist Police States of Amerika (FPSA), receipts for oxycodone-based products - such as OxyContin, Percoset, and Percodan - surged sixteenfold; hydrocodone-based products such as Vicodin continue to gain solid ground in Appalachia and Middle America. Prescriptions for benzodiazepines such as Valium have increased 17% in the FPSA America since 2006.
Indeed, insatiable demand for "hillbilly heroin" has prompted pharmacy robberies, and much worse. In fact, so many people have died from medication overdoses of late that they have come to exceed car crashes as the FPSA's top cause of accidental death. This equates to "more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined".
Meanwhile, scripts for benzodiazepines - the class of anti-anxiety drugs including Xanax, Valium, Ativan, and Klonopin - have gone up 17% since 2006, to 94 million annually. Generic Xanax, which goes by the name alprazolam, has become 23% more popular in that same timeframe, making it the most prescribed psycho-pharmaceutical drug and the 11th-most prescribed overall, with 46 million prescriptions written in 2010.
So what exactly do these popular and highly addictive prescriptions do? Well, taking an opioid analgesic benzo anxiolytic makes you feel very good. They don't just relieve pain and worry; they produce psychic euphoria, a sense that the rest of the world has slipped away, especially when abused - perpetuating the potential for addiction. It would only make sense, then, to ask why so many Amerikans would want to feel this way; what is it about the nation's society and culture that necessitates such relief?
The Amerikan way of life sounds like it is sick, and drug overuse and abuse might be a symptom of this illness.
