Prescription drug overdoses epidemic in West VA

The abuse of prescription drugs is the fastest growing addiction... The problem being the lack of discretion with writing prescriptions and the online stores that allows for opiates to be delivered right to your home.

I mean, I got 3 of 4 wisdom teeth taken out a few months ago. I was given a Rx for 500 mg hydrocodone with TWO refills...and then when I got the last one taken out...I was given another RX for 750 mg with an additional refill. So, if I decide to take all the refills prescribed I could have five bottles of generic vicodin laying around.
That is a lot of unneeded medication.

Wow, I live in WV and I didn't know we had this problem.

All you have to do is turn your t.v. on for more than ten minutes or listen to the radio for the same amount of time youll see that the drug companies are shoving everything from sex pills to sleep aids down our throats constantly to make a dollar and this is the outcome. When i was in high school (which wasnt long ago) i remember a huge scandal were ADHD drug companies were giving % to doctors who prescribes them to people, within a few months of the drug Ridilin (not sure if thats spelled correctly) coming onto the market over half the kids i knew were prescribed it.... are we really gonna keep letting this happen. In my uneducated medical opinion Methadone clinics and such institutions are enabling our government to become the worlds most powerfull drug dealer. Last time i checked pot was ILLEGAL but your gonna let people line up at 6 am at some clinic to get LEGAL HEROIN? i know thats not the only drug thats a problem but its becoming a major business and some drugs on the market today are not even approved by the FDA. Prescription drugs are very dangerous and can cause major problems even if no one is dying from there use like birth deffects and liver problems and im sure many more. I would love for there to be a monitoring system on some of these drugs, one that might actually monitor the doctors prescribing them as much as the use of the patients.

This problem is way worse then people think, even the side effects from the prescribed meds are killer.

and that picture is stolen and edited,at the bottom there used to be in bold black letters Marijuana...............0 with even that amount of dots.not only liars but thieves,pathetic

Cannibis is absolutly impossible to overdose on,which enrages me they would even think of using such a typical way catching peoples eyes.get your facts straight people,marijuana has nearly no negative side affects AND Absolutly nobody has ever died from using it.Only foolish people who drive while under the ifluence or do stupid activities while die,there has never been a recorded death from the consumption of it.EDUCATE YOURSELVES! ~Faithful Supporter Of Marijuana Rights -LearnTheTruth

why is there a pot leaf right there again? I am really confused.

"pot" on the other hand is near impossible to overdose on. in fact that best way to kill your self with weed is to slit your throat, and shove as much down there before you die.
then again people will do alot of crazy things these days.

So we're talking about oxycodone right? Not penicllin.

If that is what we're talking about when we say "prescription drugs" then the problem we're discussing here is drug abuse and the inherit dangers of powerful opiates, whether they be heroine, morphine or oxycodone.

In which case its weird to say "prescription drugs". As if their having been prescribed at some point is the root of the problem. That's misleading in the same way the government misleads us about drugs.

The problem is not so much the source of our drugs as our lack of effective measures to treat drug addiction.