Online Pharmacies: Drug Dealers on the Net

Online pharmacies have become a source of prescription drug abuse.

Rogue online pharmacies provide controlled substances to individuals who either abuse the drugs themselves or sell them to others.

If you have an email account, in the last several years you’ve undoubtedly been spammed by somebody offering controlled substances without the control. Some of these are — not all of them are frauds. Some of them are real. In calendar year 2006, just 34 known or suspected rogue Internet pharmacies dispensed over 98 million dosage units of hydrocodone, all of which was diverted.

The maximum amount of legitimate prescriptions, on average nationwide, is about eight pills per day.

Therefore, these 34 pharmacies dispensed enough hydrocodone to supply over 410,000 patients for a month.

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Marijuana Often Overlooked As Problem Drug

The 2008 Marijuana Sourcebook contains important data on marijuana in the United States including the latest use patterns and trends, health effects, criminal justice aspects, supply sources, and information regarding so-called “medical marijuana.” The publication draws from a wide variety of national scientific and research-based data sources.

Recent marijuana data reveals the following:

The great majority of males arrested for any violation in America have drugs in their system at the time of arrest, with marijuana being the most often detected. The rate testing positive for marijuana ranged from a third to more than a half of all male arrestees at the time of arrest. Further, marijuana is the drug most likely to be reported by arrestees when asked about lifetime, prior year, and recent (prior 30 days) drug use. (Source: An analysis of 10 major U.S. cities, Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring System (ADAM), 2003).

High potency of marijuana may be contributing to a substantial increase in the number of American teenagers in treatment for marijuana dependence.  According to the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), one in four 12-17-year-olds who report using marijuana in the past year display the characteristics of abuse or dependency. For younger users, the risk of marijuana abuse or dependency exceeds that for alcohol or tobacco.

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Drugs Prevalent in Local Schools

Drug Rehab Warns That Your Child Will Encounter Drugs In School

When people send their children to school it is not with the expectation that they will encounter something that is harmful to them.

However, what many people don’t realize is that while their young children are in school, studies show that all will be offered at least one drug by the time they finish high school.

Whether they take this drug or not depends a lot on their drug education, drug awareness, and what their parent’s have taught them about drug use.

“The chance of your child learning about drugs and alcohol from their peers is high,” comments Mary Rieser, Director of the Atlanta Recovery Center, Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia. “Eleven million high school students (80 percent) and five million middle school students (44 percent) attend drug-infested schools, meaning possession, student drunk and/or student high on the grounds of their school, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XII Teens and Parents.

The Atlanta Recovery Center warns that besides learning about reading, geometry, and history, they will more than likely learn about drugs to use. And abuse. And get addicted to.

Do you think a student using drugs is going to warn his or her peers, (your child, in other words), about the dangers of drug abuse? Probably not.

Couple this with the increase in back-to-school themed ads, marketing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs, and you have the potential of chemical experimentation at school, beyond the scope of the chemistry classes.

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