More people are swallowing Oxy Contin, Vicodin and Percocet for enjoyment that ever before. And of course teenagers are getting in on the act too, in fact it’s already in the house because it’s likely mom and dad might have a bottle in the medicine cabinet and either use it for pain or to relax in front of the TV at night. They don’t even have to go out and score it all they have to do is look next to the Tylenol.
We’re not seeing the outrage from the government like you saw with almost every other abused drug; marijuana, cocaine, ectasy. All these trends saw massive alarm from parent groups and the DEA. But on prescription drug use the normal suspects are surprisingly mum.
I don’t see any commercials. This is your brain on Vicodin.
I don’t see any billboards, nothing.
Silence.
According to a government study the rate that prescription drugs were abused before one moved on to cocaine/crack is 60 percent, whereas for those trying prescription drugs before marijuana is about 15%. There is as much evidence that prescription drugs can lead to harder drugs, the mythically feared gateway drug, than pot.
Again where’s the hysteria, where’s the national campaigns, where’s Nancy Reagan telling us to just say no?
It couldn’t have anything to do with prescription drugs being created, sold, and profited from by major pharmaceutical companies could it?
They must surely know how much of their product is being consumed for non-medical reasons? But it’s not like they’re going to make less of it, or even control it better. Why would you when there are stockholders to take care of, CEO’s to pay millions to, and lobbyist to fund?
Once again the DEA shows it’s hypocrisy towards drugs that are entrenched inside the capitalist system, alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs versus those that are black market.
Why? The dough is not ending up in these guys’ pocket.
It’s time to bring a little reason to the war on drugs. It’s a failed war that Nixon started and continues to wreck innocent lives across America. It’s time to end it.
