The Herlad (York County South Carolina) pg8A Sunday, July 19,2009
In York County the abuse of prescription Drugs and deaths due to overdosing are on the rise. In particular, teenagers of wealthy parents, and those that are depressed are raiding their parents medicine cabinets and using the drugs to feel happier or more academically confident. Marvin Brown (senior commander of the York County Multijurisdictional Drug Enforcement Unit) thought that the appeal of prescription drugs was that taking them wouldn‘t seem as bad as abusing other common illicit drugs and because some prescription drugs indicate exactly how much opiate they contain, like “OxyContin so teens feel safer taking them (even though its still very dangerous)
In Chapter four of our text (“Consciousness“) under the heading: “The Varying Effects of Drugs” several reasons that people desire drugs and become dependent on them are discussed. The chapter mentions that many researchers agree that most people continue to use drugs because of their positive effects rather than the negative effects of not taking them and this seems to be true for the teens of York County as well. It’s possible that teens of wealthy families use prescription drugs because they seem ‘cleaner’ than other drugs; they may think: “I’m not using drugs, just taking a few pills to feel better” or just because the pills are so readily available to them.
The reason teens and others are abusing prescription drugs may be partly the fault of society, since these days everything is a disease with a new medication, even discomforts like heartburn, which (with the exception of severe cases ) could be controlled by diet. So taking medicine has become a less serious and potentially dangerous thing. There are hundreds of possible explanations as to why teenagers are beginning to abuse prescription drugs at a higher rate than before, but the point is that our text emphasizes the use of drugs as a solution to unhappiness and or low confidence and the article above confirms that this is exactly what’s happening on an even larger scale than before.
In York County the abuse of prescription Drugs and deaths due to overdosing are on the rise. In particular, teenagers of wealthy parents, and those that are depressed are raiding their parents medicine cabinets and using the drugs to feel happier or more academically confident. Marvin Brown (senior commander of the York County Multijurisdictional Drug Enforcement Unit) thought that the appeal of prescription drugs was that taking them wouldn‘t seem as bad as abusing other common illicit drugs and because some prescription drugs indicate exactly how much opiate they contain, like “OxyContin so teens feel safer taking them (even though its still very dangerous)
In Chapter four of our text (“Consciousness“) under the heading: “The Varying Effects of Drugs” several reasons that people desire drugs and become dependent on them are discussed. The chapter mentions that many researchers agree that most people continue to use drugs because of their positive effects rather than the negative effects of not taking them and this seems to be true for the teens of York County as well. It’s possible that teens of wealthy families use prescription drugs because they seem ‘cleaner’ than other drugs; they may think: “I’m not using drugs, just taking a few pills to feel better” or just because the pills are so readily available to them.
The reason teens and others are abusing prescription drugs may be partly the fault of society, since these days everything is a disease with a new medication, even discomforts like heartburn, which (with the exception of severe cases ) could be controlled by diet. So taking medicine has become a less serious and potentially dangerous thing. There are hundreds of possible explanations as to why teenagers are beginning to abuse prescription drugs at a higher rate than before, but the point is that our text emphasizes the use of drugs as a solution to unhappiness and or low confidence and the article above confirms that this is exactly what’s happening on an even larger scale than before.
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