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donnay
04-01-2015, 09:42 AM
Pharmaceuticals Kill More Teens Than Illegal Substances in the US: Study


By Monica Thunder

Combine the number of overdose deaths caused by heroin and cocaine, and you still haven’t matched the number of deaths caused by pharmaceutical prescription medications each year in the United States. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website, pharmaceutical abuse was responsible for about 23,000 deaths in 2013 — that’s more than half of the overdose deaths in the U.S. that year.

Prescription drugs have a disproportionately large effect on teenagers. A recent study (http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-03/ama-lht032415.php) published in Journal of Public Policy and Marketing sheds light on this issue, which the CDC has labeled an “epidemic.”

Over 1,000 teenagers in 40 different regions around the U.S. participated in an online survey that questioned them about their use of alcohol, tobacco, legal drugs and illegal drugs. Participants were asked if they suffer from anxiety, if they have a desire to be “popular,” how often they participate in exciting activities, and whether they consider using drugs risky.

The authors of the study — Richard Netemeyer of University of Virginia, Scot Burton of University of Arkansas, Barbara Delaney of the Partnership for Drug Free Kids, and Gina Hijjawi of American Institutes for Research — published (http://journals.ama.org/doi/abs/10.1509/jppm.14.073) several conclusions.

First, their results showed use of pharmaceuticals has a linear correlation with the amount of anxiety and other psychological stress a teenager experiences each day. Pharmaceutical use also increases with the amount of alcohol a teenager consumes.

Second, their results show prescription drug use increases exponentially in circumstances where a teenager is experiencing more severe anxiety, a heightened desire to be popular, a need to be a “good teen,” or is using other restricted substances.

“Teens need help before they reach these tipping points for prescription drug abuse,” write the authors. “Adults spotting teens with very high levels of anxiety and at least moderate use of other restricted substances should realize that these are students with a high likelihood of prescription abuse.

Continued... (http://www.globalresearch.ca/pharmaceuticals-kill-more-teens-than-illegal-substances-in-the-us-study/5440037)

Zippyjuan
04-01-2015, 01:23 PM
Kids will abuse whatever substances are available to them. Ban all prescriptions and they will find something else.

donnay
04-01-2015, 01:31 PM
Kids will abuse whatever substances are available to them. Ban all prescriptions and they will find something else.

Easy way to sweep it under the rug, huh?

PaulConventionWV
04-01-2015, 01:32 PM
Kids will abuse whatever substances are available to them. Ban all prescriptions and they will find something else.

Who said anything about banning them?

presence
04-01-2015, 01:35 PM
Combine the number of overdose deaths caused by heroin and cocaine

Most of those deaths are actually overdoses due to heroin being cut with the pharmaceutical fentanyl and cocaine being cut with pharmaceutical benzocaine and lidocaine.

If people were allowed to smoke opium and chew coca leaves in peace there wouldn't even be such substances on the streets.

Christopher A. Brown
04-01-2015, 04:46 PM
Kids will abuse whatever substances are available to them. Ban all prescriptions and they will find something else.


Easy way to sweep it under the rug, huh?

I think it would be an "over generalization" or an example of "all or nothing thinking". Cognitive distortions. America was taught such things subliminally through TV since 1980 by the uses of semiotics. Once the second generation got it, it became invisible to them. My dad left the country for 4 years in 1980 to travel the south pacific on an inter island freighter around micronesia. When he returned he was shocked at the crap on TV.

What is really sad is that academia, psychology, the courts, law enforcement, and big pharma are colluding to prevent effective mental health care. Basically imposing by deprivation of justice, neglect, non feasance and malfeasance to make a default prison/police state. However it gets worse.

Effective psychology ends up providing real guidance to the population and not just treating disorders but also enhancing life perspectives that create excitement, engagement and function that displaces fascination with drug experiences. The final downside is; that, if allowed to continue, the potential adaptations we might find are not found, and; the species goes extinct because of it.

DamianTV
04-01-2015, 04:58 PM
Kids will abuse whatever substances are available to them. Ban all prescriptions and they will find something else.

Why not just LEGALIZE POT and create a path that makes this substance available to everyone over the substance that kills people?
(with reasonable limitations)

angelatc
04-01-2015, 05:15 PM
What is really sad is that academia, psychology, the courts, law enforcement, and big pharma are colluding to prevent effective mental health care. Basically imposing by deprivation of justice, neglect, non feasance and malfeasance to make a default prison/police state. However it gets worse.

Effective psychology ends up providing real guidance to the population and not just treating disorders but also enhancing life perspectives that create excitement, engagement and function that displaces fascination with drug experiences. The final downside is; that, if allowed to continue, the potential adaptations we might find are not found, and; the species goes extinct because of it.

wait - wot?

Christopher A. Brown
04-01-2015, 06:37 PM
wait - wot?

Oops, I left out media.

http://algoxy.com/law/no_free_press/sbsecretsofmedia.html

There are links to the lawsuit filed which was given to a reporter at the local paper. The lawsuit was about an experimental treatment direct to the unconscious mind which had this defacto approval of the director of the county mental health department.

http://algoxy.com/psych/psyimages/confirmsbcomh.jpg

Two weeks later the reporter was fired. Six weeks later 16 other reporters and editors were fired, resigned AND gagged. There is another link where a state court judge basically is shown preferring a meth lab to habitable housing. My eviction ensued after trying to get rid of a meth cooker.

The US district court secretly revised 125 year old pre se court rules which provided a new magistrate and judge to a pro se civil rights suit when filed with new co plaintiffs. Three grandmothers joined my suit previously filed 3 times. The rule was yanked, with NO NOTE OF REVISION. Do you realize how unconstitutional that is?

What it means is all Americans in the jurisdiction of the 9th circuit lost MAJOR pre se civil rights. Attorneys will not take certain cases. Now those cases will never get justice because they will always be assigned to the same unconstitutional judge, with no way to get away.

Yea, we go extinct because we must use our unconscious directly to control our behaviors. Like war, pollution etc. But we are not going to because of this collusion.

Stratovarious
04-01-2015, 07:17 PM
We should have never allowed drug laws in the books.

Christopher A. Brown
04-01-2015, 09:15 PM
We should have never allowed drug laws in the books.

Absolutely! But to go back to the real problem that should have never been all allowed is the civil war. That opened the door for the infiltration of the federal government and defacto abandonment of the 1787 constitution.

The nation has been run by the agents of the financiers of the union army from England. Their agenda is the rules of engagement for that war, "the Lieber code". It is war on the people. English barons want their serfs and colony back.

If Americans here keep taking the lead of the cognitive infiltration of the forum, the barons will get it back. People gotta' free up their minds and THINK like Americans. Recognize that the ultimate purpose of free speech is unity, and that purpose is abridged. This fully justifies unity around such prime principals and taking on the honorable task of altering g or abolishing this government destructive to our unalienable rights.