Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Seekers On The Increase

Drug Addicts Often Target Dentists and Doctors.

As prescription drug abuse makes more and more headlines, drug addicts are targeting doctors and dentists more and more to “doctor shop” so that they can get more prescription drugs to feed their addiction.

The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia advises doctors and dentists not to become unwitting enablers of drug addicts.

Mary Rieser, Executive Director of The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab, comments: “You may know a prescription drug seeker. These are individuals who try to get prescription medication that is either not medically indicated or prescribed for them. In other words, they want to abuse it.

“We have many drug addicts who confess that they have, in the past, actively pursued drugs by approaching dentists or doctors. The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab wants to educate professionals so that they can be aware of drug seeking behavior.

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