One of the growing issues in the American drug culture isn’t with known narcotics like cocaine and heroin. It lies with something you can find at the local pharmacy. Prescription medications are becoming some of the most abused drugs in the country and with the growing number of ways to steal these drugs, the trend is only getting higher.
It was once said that the higher class addicts were pill poppers as it was more dignified as opposed to buying drugs off a street corner or from unsavory characters. Well the times and perception of that have changed as now drug addicts are looking for high grade prescription medication. This is due to its ease of availability.
Common drugs such as cocaine or marijuana are often in scarce supply to a local dealer. Lots of things must happen and align for a dealer to be in constant supply of the drug. With prescription medication, it is strictly up to the addict to obtain the means to acquire the drug. Pharmacies are never in short supply of drugs like Xanax, Vicodin, and Ativan.
The means at which to obtain these prescription pills is also an attractive lure for addicts as there are several ways to do it. The first way is by simply calling in a phony prescription. Addicts usually have it mastered before they attempt it. Then there is simply forging a prescription. This is usually a result of stealing a doctors prescription paid before they realize that anything is missing.
The other, and certainly less common, method is having a doctor of compromised morals write out a prescription for painkillers or drugs like Xanax without the patient exhibiting the necessary medical symptoms to require such strong medications. These doctors usually work for cash upfront and in exchange agree to write prescriptions with no additional refills so that the patient will then have to come back and see them and pay for another office visit. As long as prescription drugs are readily available there will be addicts ready to abuse them. The trend continues.
