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Heroin Addiction Was Rampant in 1913; In 2014 It’s Prescription Painkiller Addiction

Heroin, which acts as a sedative and respiratory depressant, worked well in suppressing coughing fits, making it a medical breakthrough in the early 1900s, when tuberculosis and pneumonia were among the leading causes of death. By 1913, the number of heroin addicts had skyrocketed to the point that drug-company Bayer was forced to stop producing heroin. You should know that prescription opiates are chemically similar to heroin, and virtually indistinguishable as far as your brain is concerned. (And heroin is actually still used medically, often for post-surgery pain, in certain countries, including the UK.) As explained by Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the US National Institute on Drug Abuse, heroin, morphine, hydrocodone, and oxycodone "are all classified as opioids because they exert their effect by attaching to the opioid receptor found in our brain and spinal cord." For instance, hydrocodone, a prescription opiate, is synthetic heroin. So, if you're hooked on hydrocodone, you are in fact a good-old-fashioned heroin addict. But most people assume that because it’s a “prescription” drug, it’s safe, or should not carry the same negative stigma as a street drug. This is, sadly, far from the truth. Fatal prescription drug overdoses actually surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of accidental death in 2007. Many of the overdoses (36 percent) involve prescription opioid painkillers, which were actually the cause of more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined.

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One in Five Pregnant Women Take Opioid Painkillers

We’ve told you before about the dangers of prescription opioid painkillers: drugs like oxycodone (OxyContin) and hydrocodone (Vicodin) are incredibly addictive, and cause more deaths a year than heroin and cocaine combined. Alarmingly, a full 20% of pregnant women now use these prescription painkillers, according to the New York Times. What’s worse, not all women are being prescribed opioids equally: those with Medicaid, as well as those who live in the south, are being prescribed painkillers during pregnancy at much higher rates: 23% of women on Medicaid, compared to 14% of women with private insurance, are being prescribed opioids. While this is shocking, what doctors are prescribing as an alternative to these painkillers is just as dangerous.

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Raising a Generation of Pill-Poppers: How Prescription Drug Abuse Threatens an Entire Generation

Far from being recognized for their potential health hazards, ADHD drugs have gained a reputation as “cognition enhancers” among students and young professionals. Narcotic painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs, and antidepressants are also notoriously overprescribed. Benzodiazepines, a class of anxiety drugs, are also widely overused, and a common source of drug addiction. Clearly, what we have here is a gigantic spinning merry-go-round of drug use and addiction to mind-altering medications, where one drug frequently leads to the use of another. The full societal ramifications of all this pain-avoidance, whether physical or emotional, and the insistence on immediate relief, are probably far greater than any of us can conceive.

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Legal Drug Addiction a far Greater Problem than Illegal Drug Addiction

Prescription drug overdoses now kill more people than cocaine and heroin combined. There were four times more deaths among women from prescription painkiller overdose than for cocaine and heroin deaths combined in 2010. The face of drug addiction in the US and around the globe is changing. You can certainly not gauge who is an addict by looks or occupation. In fact, painkiller addiction spans all ages and walks of life.

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Natural Solutions for Pain: Non-Addictive and Cost-Effective

Over 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain—yet conventional “solutions” can cause intestinal bleeding, dependence, heart disease, and cancer. There are many non-addictive and cost affection alternative solutions for pain, many of which stimulate the body's natural healing mechanisms so that you can heal the body, rather than just mask symptoms with prescription drugs.

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Drug Companies Pay Money to FDA Which Leads to Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic

Drug companies paid up to $25,000 to influence FDA policy—the latest in a decades-long FDA/Big Pharma scandal. Since the 1990s, there’s been an explosion in the use and abuse of highly addictive painkillers such as oxycodone (the main ingredient in OxyContin) and hydrocodone (found in drugs like Vicodin). Given the alarming social, health, and even economic costs of this epidemic of painkiller abuse, there has been considerable pressure from both inside and outside the FDA to improve the regulation of these drugs. A recent “pay-to-play” scheme—exposed by the Washington Post earlier this month—hints at the FDA’s real priorities. The Post reports that companies paid as much as $25,000 to attend meetings with FDA officials to shape policy on how drug manufacturers can prove the “safety and effectiveness” of their painkillers.

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Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses are “skyrocketing” among women

Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses have increased five-fold among women from 1999 to 2010. Many people find themselves addicted to painkillers before they even realize what’s happened, often after taking the drugs to recover from surgery or treat chronic back, or other, pain. Painkillers typically work by binding to receptors in your brain to decrease the perception of pain, but they also create a feeling of euphoria that can easily lead to physical dependence and addiction. There were four times more deaths among women from prescription painkiller overdose than from cocaine and heroin deaths combined in 2010.

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Death by Prescription Drugs Now Epidemic

Health Impact News Editor Comments: We have had a lot of “false scares” in recent years over supposed epidemics that threatened the U.S. population, such as the “bird flu” and the “swine flu.” Fear over such potential epidemics that never happened gave great economic benefit to the vaccine industry that rushed vaccines to the […]

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