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A Drug Crisis in the United States
A Drug Crisis in the United States
Joseph Santori, of Brooklyn, New York, died in his bed from a drug overdose on February 17, 2005. He was only twenty-two years old, but he had a history of problems with legal and illegal drugs. Joseph had gone through drug abuse, then treatment, then relapse (a return to using drugs or alcohol) before his parents discovered him. He had hidden his drug use from his parents very well.
Many young people like Joseph have died from taking dangerous illegal substances - cocaine, heroin, or methamphetamine. But Joseph was part of a growing trend of deaths and serious problems caused by legal drugs that doctors and other medical specialists can provide to children as young as six years old. Joseph died not from coke or other illegal stimulants, but from mixing too many pills of the prescription drug Xanax with an unidentified opiate, or narcotic drug.
Prescription drugs are already used legally to help people with many illnesses and disorders. But the illegal use of prescription drugs is quickly becoming the biggest health crisis in the United States. The Journal of the American Medical Association recently said that prescription drug abuse is the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States, after heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Nobody is immune from prescription drug abuse, as it occurs in all social, economic, geographic, and ethnic groups.
When we think of drug abuse, we often think of illegal "street drugs" like cocaine or heroin. Everyone knows that users risk their health and even their lives by using these drugs to feel good or to escape from reality. Such drugs have no medical use. In recent years, however, people have taken to abusing drugs that are prescribed to help those with real mental and medical problems.
At the very least, prescription drug abusers are at risk for health problems. They also risk getting in trouble with the law because selling or possessing prescription drugs without a prescription is a crime. Abusers may often feel irritable, restless, or not quite like themselves. They may also suffer from minor ailments ranging from increased heart rate to nausea and terrible mood swings. Or they may suffer from major problems brought on by changes in their brain and body chemistry. In some situations, prescription drug abuse can lead to death. Young people, whose bodies are developing rapidly, risk permanent damage to their health.
Glossary
disorder - an ailment that affects the function of mind or body
illness - poor health resulting from disease of body or mind; sickness
opiate - a drug, hormone, or other chemical substance having sedative or narcotic effects similar to those containing opium or its derivatives
prescription drug - a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist
Xanax - commercial name for the most popular brand of alprazolam, a CNS depressant
Text prepared by Philip Wolny
pwolny@gmail.com
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