“Drug Dealers In Lab Coats”
The most of us think that opioids addictions star in the street corner.
Do you agree or disagree?.
The opioids addiction is a national epidemic. “75 percent of Americans hooked on opioid addictions began with prescription painkillers, The slide starts not on a street corner, but in a doctor’s office”. This is a message from Nicholas Kristof in his New York Times article “Drug Dealers in Lab Coats”. Most of us think that opioids addiction starts in the street corner, however, the real hidden danger exists in the doctor’s office.
Most of us think that addiction to the drugs, in general, starts in the street. Personally, I have friends that got addicted to drugs by themselves or by friends in workplaces and schools. I think that the fact of getting addicted changes depending on the country. Back home in Morocco, most addicted to the drugs are by themselves or they were affected by other friends. In the United States, there are many ways to get addicted to the drugs, people become addicted in the street, Workplaces, schools and the most dangerous one is who starts in the Doctor's offices. In some clinics, doctors began handing out suboxone without examinations or follow up, Moving desperate people through with assembly-line efficiency. Drug overdose deaths and Opioid involved deaths continue to increase in the United States.
Every day more than 90 Americans die after overdosing on Opioids, As bad as the opioid epidemic is across the nation, it is even worse in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia who collectively have a rate of opioid-related deaths that is more than twice the national average.
West Virginia is one of the hardest hit areas for babies born with what’s known as neonatal abstinence syndrome. Five percent of babies born in West Virginia last year were born drug affected. Last year 5,306 people died from opioid overdoses in the three states, 15 deaths a
day. That means that 13 percent of all opioid deaths in the nation occurred in a region with just over 5 percent of the country’s population.The misuse of an addiction to Opioids, including prescription pain relievers, heroin and synthetic Opioids such as Fentanyl is a serious national crisis that affects public health as well as social and economic welfare.
American pharmaceutical companies are the biggest drug pushers of all, in the 1990s,
pharmaceutical companies reassured the medical community that patients would not become addicted to prescription Opioids pain relievers, and healthcare providers began to prescribe them at greater rates. This subsequently led these medications before it became clear that these medications could indeed be highly addictive.
In conclusion, people get addicted on the street or in doctor’s office, therefore we need to help them before they start, the big issue is that the doctors and the pharmaceutical companies who are responsible for this epidemic won’t stop their business, every year they receive billions of dollars. How can the government face this issue when it’s a big part of the economy?.
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