Because of an aging population, more and more Americans and people around the world are taking prescription drugs to alleviate their pain and help them recover from illness and injury. Many of the most popular drugs are powerful substances that can be dangerous or abused. Federal law prohibits many of these popular drugs from being dispensed without a written order or refill issued by a medical professional. Pharmacies are the retail stores licensed to dispense medicine upon a doctor’s prescription.
According to a study released last year by NDC Pharmaceutical, generic Hydrocodone was the most popular drug by number of prescriptions dispensed in the US during the 2004 year.
The second most prescribed drug, Pfizer‘s Lipitor, was the most popular branded drug according to the study. The drug is approved for use to help lower one’s cholesterol and thereby help prevent cardiovascular and heart disease.
According to reports, diazepam, marketed under the brand-name Valium, was the most prescribed drug is the US during the 1970s, until critics claimed it was in overuse and switched to different drugs to replace their need to treat patients with substances.
I prefer morphine
Figures, Vicodin is the new Valium.
Prescription drugs have more addicts than illicit substances.
It doesn't matter really, a drug is a drug, it is the way people use them and the way people want to control the way people use them that makes drugs the taboo they are.
What angers me is this supposed war on drugs. More people I know are addicted to painkillers and valium, xanax, ritilan drugs. and when a drug gets bad publicity like valium did, all they did was replace it with a just as potent version of valium with a slight molecular difference.
Oxycontin, the scourge of the nation should of been taken of the market years ago but since eli lilly or pfizer or whoever owns the patent is pushing multi million dollars to the right people it will stay on pharmacy shelves until it becomes a generic drug. Then it will be banned. By then an alternative opiate will of taken its place or or the million plus addicts will turn to herion as they are at par in strength. Its all about the money. all my highschool friends are hooked on oxycontin so the bigwigs in washington can get rich. Not even cocaine is as addicting as oxycontin. and weed. sheesh……….it should be alcohols replacement. havent enough car accidents happened, enough fights, domestic abuse…………..