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approximately 125,000 deaths and at least 10 percent of hospitalizations from people not taking medication they where prescribed.

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“When people don’t take the medications prescribed for them, emergency department visits and hospitalizations increase and more people die,” said Bruce Bender, co-director of the Center for Health Promotion at National Jewish Health in Denver

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“Teenagers believe that if a doctor gives a drug to you, it cannot be so terrible to abuse,” says Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Md. “They think prescribed drugs are safer to abuse than illegal drugs. They are not.”

Straight Talk on Prescription Drugs 2018

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Painter Thomas Kinkade set out to become the world's most ubiquitous and financially profitable artist, and largely succeeded in those goals. Later then,   died of respiratory depression caused by alcohol and prescription-drug use, April 6, 2012
Thomas Kinkade.   Gale, 2013

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“Traditionally, the healer’s greatest tool has been to listen and build on the patient’s story and its meaning,” Dr. Chewning said. (Simpson,2006)

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A more recent review of three decades of research on adherence and treatment outcomes showed that the risk of a poor health outcome is 26 percent lower in participants with good adherence.
(Simpson,2006)

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"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), created under a different name in 1906, was originally tasked with monitoring drug products for inadequate labeling or fraudulent claims of health benefits. In 1937, drug company S. E. Massengill mistakenly used a toxic solvent in one of its medications, which resulted in more than one hundred deaths. To prevent such a tragedy from occurring again, the FDA became responsible for ensuring the safety of medications before they could be made available to consumers. In 1951, the FDA also became responsible for classifying drugs as “over the counter” (safe for consumers to buy and use without medical supervision) or “prescription-only” (issued only with a doctor’s permission). "
Gale
2017

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Limbaugh said he started taking the pills to alleviate the pain from his two herniated disks. Allegations later arose that Limbaugh went "doctor shopping"—visiting several physicians to get prescriptions for OxyContin without telling them about the other doctors and prescriptions.
Gale, 2016.

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"A 2016 Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation survey showed that one-third of Americans who took prescription opioids for a minimum of two months reported becoming addicted to, or physically dependent on, the medication. The same survey found that nearly all long-term users of these drugs started taking them after receiving a prescription from a health care provider. Many physicians and other health care professionals feel that such prescriptions are necessary to provide relief to patients experiencing severe pain, and they argue that addiction is rare when a patient follows instructions for dosage and frequency."
US Centers and Disease Control
Gale, 2015

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All people have a genetic disposition for addiction, due to an evolutionary advantage to identifying foods and substances that provide pleasure, but many factors contribute to an individual’s susceptibility to serious addiction.
Gale, 2016.

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"In August 2016, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy addressed the opioid epidemic in a letter sent to all American physicians and other prescribing health care providers. In the letter, he urged them to help solve the problem of prescription medication abuse. Murthy asked doctors to carefully consider the addictiveness of painkillers and screen patients for opioid abuse disorder."
Misuse Prescription Drugs
Gale, 2015

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Craig says, "every morning is a challenge to get out of bed." Even with liberal use of ice packs and Biofreeze, he says, "It's horrible. I can't expect to live a life like this. I'm not a junkie. I'm not a threat to society. I'm not a threat to myself. I simply want to live my life without pain" (Sullum 2018).

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Approximately 2.1 million Americans are addicted to legal narcotics, and more than 30,000 opioid-related deaths occurred in 2015.
Gale, 2016.

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Text: "I have lived my life by the rules," says Craig (whose name I've changed at his request). "I made one mistake, and they condemned me for it. They were basically saying that I'm a druggie when I have been fine for four years. My first pill count ever, and they boot me." He says a nurse at the practice told him "the doctors were getting tired of all the scrutiny, so they were booting all the opioid patients." (Sullum, 2018)

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"According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 2.1 million Americans are addicted to legal narcotics, and more than 30,000 opioid-related deaths occurred in 2015. An estimated 78 Americans die from an opioid overdose every day."
Gale, 2015

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1-Viveca- pink
2-Brooklyn- Purple
3-Max - blue
4-Blake-- green

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He would take a 30-milligram OxyContin (Sullum, 2018)

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From 1992 to 2002, the population of the country grew 13%. The number of prescriptions written grew 57%. But the number of prescriptions for controlled substances rose 154.
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Kirn, Timothy  Oct. 2006