Drug Abuse Epidemic
Watch the documentary Prescription Thugs (2016).
Read the seven (7) attached articles. As part of your discussion, answer the following questions:
- Compare and contrast the information presented in all four articles.
- Do you think our society has undergone a cultural shift?
- Did the documentary give you a different perspective on the pharmaceutical industry?
- Did the documentary affect how you feel towards the “disease of addiction” and toward addicts?
- What culpability do we as pharmacists have in proliferating this public health problem?
- What creative solutions do you propose over and above what has already been implemented?
- How would you respond to a question posed by a patient who had watched the documentary regarding its accuracy?
In addition, discuss the overall “level of evidence” for the conclusions made in all of the materials used in four (4) Analytical Discussions. What do you feel is the most valuable or important results from this type of scientific inquiry?
You are encouraged to look at additional current references from the literature (which you must properly cite) to support your points. Limit your initial post to no more than 500 words.
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I believe the documentary has given me a different perspective about addicts. It is not every addict that gets into this habit willingly. Some become addicts through medical treatment where the physicians use certain addictive drugs on the patient to the point where they cannot live without these drugs. Pharmacists are culpable for spreading this menace because they have been at the forefront of making these addictive drugs easily accessible to society even without a physician’s recommendation (Johnson, 2016). In addressing the increase in drug overdose and abuse, I believe the pharmaceutical industry must strictly regulate how they sell these drugs to the public. The industry must be accountable for how they decimate these drugs (Emanuel & Thomas, 2019). They need to record the addictive drugs they have and a description of the people who purchase these drugs. Such purchases should be solely on a recommendation from a physician.
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Drug Abuse Epidemic
