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Painkillers Purchased Online
If
you have a credit card, you can get any drug you want, no questions
asked, no doctor visits.
The explosion of Internet pharmacies, 84% of which don't require prescriptions according to a University of Maryland study, makes it almost impossible to effectively police these shipments. These addictive drugs are strictly regulated by state and federal laws and are supposed to be available only through prescriptions. Louisiana and Kentucky have prescription drug monitoring programs that link emergency rooms and pharmacies. A Florida senator tried unsuccessfully to create a statewide electronic prescription database in his state. The network would make it easier for pharmacists, medical staff and law enforcement agencies to root out "doctor-shoppers" and physicians who over-prescribe addictive painkillers. More than 30 states have similar databanks. In Florida, roughly six people a day die from illegally used prescription drugs, according to the Office of Drug Control.
Nationally, the number of emergency room visits that noted abuse of
painkillers jumped to 119,000 in 2002, up 168 percent from 1994.
For the first half of 2007, cocaine caused 398 deaths in Florida, more than any other drug. Prescription drugs caused nearly all of the rest, lead by the painkiller and anti-addiction medicine Methadone (392); tranquilizers in the benzodoazephines family (353); oxycodone, the painkiller ingredient on OxyContin (323); hydrocodone painkillers (134); and morphine (122). |
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