Narconon of Georgia  

Prescription Drugs Major Source of Healthcare Waste.

The marketing efforts of pharmaceutical companies, with a new pill or drug as the new answer to every life problem, has become one of the most expensive and devastating health care issue ever to face the country.

“While many drugs are needed to help people with health issues,” comments Mary Rieser, Executive Director for the Atlanta Recovery Center, “many drugs are simply re-packaged, re-named, and released to ‘address’ some other health issue. This marketing practice, while making billions for the drug companies, has severely impacted the health and well being of millions who are not educated on the dangers of abusing prescription drugs.”

An estimated 5.2 million people admit to using prescription medication for purposes other than prescribed during the previous month, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health.  The largest part of that number used painkillers for reasons other than to kill pain.

For example, narcotic painkillers are derived from opium.  They can be made directly from the plant such as in the case of morphine or codeine, or they can be synthetically created in a lab, as with oxycodone or hydrocodone. They are all considered highly addictive no matter the fancy name or marketing gimmick behind them.  

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