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This just came across on Bloomberg…..
Prescription Drugs Match Heroin, Cocaine in Overdoses in U.S.
June 17 (Bloomberg) — Emergency-room visits from abuse of prescription and over-the-counter medicines doubled in the U.S.
in four years, matching for the first time the number of overdoses of illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
Regulator-approved treatments were implicated in a record 1 million patients who sought help at hospital emergency departments in 2008, twice the number as in 2004, according to a study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta. Overdoses from illicit drugs were unchanged, at 1 million emergency visits.
The most hospitalizations were caused by painkillers, with visits more than doubling, and tranquilizers, with an 89 percent increase. King Pharmaceuticals Inc., in Bristol Tennessee, and Purdue Pharma LP, in Stamford, Connecticut, won approval in the last year for drugs to prevent misuse. A half-dozen drugmakers are developing pain pills that resist abuse methods such as crushing, dissolving in alcohol, and taking more than needed.
“Additional measures are needed urgently,†researchers wrote in the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. “Recent public health and law enforcement measures intended to prevent nonmedical use of such drugs have not prevented rate increases.â€
The biggest increase in emergency visits was from adults in their 20s, according to the study. The researchers analyzed reports from 220 emergency departments across the U.S. to estimate the nation’s tally.
rob, I echo what benson says. Helping other can be quite positive. You also don’t need to join an organization like habitat for humanity/nycares. Reach out to a community/religous group or maybe even a senior who lives in one of the housing groups in the area. A visit or a helping hand would be greatly appreciated and will help put things into perspective. Also don’t sweat the small stuff so much.
Why are folks obsessed with the areas in which they cannot play (BBP or BHB)? It reminds me of the old joke about the preacher who bores his congregation with a sermon lamenting about who is not present in the church.
Sigmund Freud, the father of modern day psychoanalysis, only came to an understanding and breakthrough in his “talking cure” after much failure.
In his letters to a colleague, he basically states that he was meeting with failure so often that he began to doubt his ability to help certain patients.
It was only after suffering through years of failing to help patients in their mental illnesses that he developed a new understanding of the underlying factors at play. Medicine is still evolving along those lines, especially the science of mental health.
hey benson, do you (or anyone else) speak Japanese? I have a client in Japan asking me for some kind of ‘can’t be used in nuclear war’ certificate and he can’t explain exactly what he wants.
Went to the ‘NO adults allowed playground’ to frolic (without kids! All day yesterday, I was practicing raising my middle finger quickly in cause anyone called me out on my kidless entry into the play areas).
It was still light out when we got there, but the gates were closed and they were cleaning.
I’m never going to get into those play areas am I!?!?!?
[SIGH]
therapists
dibs
cat ladies
cats
million dollar apts
$15 ice cream cones
hood rats
trust fund students
taxes for single people
psychotropic medication
challenging jobs
SOHO
The 7 train
Broadway
Queens
TriBeca
the upper middle class
This just came across on Bloomberg…..
Prescription Drugs Match Heroin, Cocaine in Overdoses in U.S.
June 17 (Bloomberg) — Emergency-room visits from abuse of prescription and over-the-counter medicines doubled in the U.S.
in four years, matching for the first time the number of overdoses of illegal drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
Regulator-approved treatments were implicated in a record 1 million patients who sought help at hospital emergency departments in 2008, twice the number as in 2004, according to a study released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta. Overdoses from illicit drugs were unchanged, at 1 million emergency visits.
The most hospitalizations were caused by painkillers, with visits more than doubling, and tranquilizers, with an 89 percent increase. King Pharmaceuticals Inc., in Bristol Tennessee, and Purdue Pharma LP, in Stamford, Connecticut, won approval in the last year for drugs to prevent misuse. A half-dozen drugmakers are developing pain pills that resist abuse methods such as crushing, dissolving in alcohol, and taking more than needed.
“Additional measures are needed urgently,†researchers wrote in the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report. “Recent public health and law enforcement measures intended to prevent nonmedical use of such drugs have not prevented rate increases.â€
The biggest increase in emergency visits was from adults in their 20s, according to the study. The researchers analyzed reports from 220 emergency departments across the U.S. to estimate the nation’s tally.
rob, I echo what benson says. Helping other can be quite positive. You also don’t need to join an organization like habitat for humanity/nycares. Reach out to a community/religous group or maybe even a senior who lives in one of the housing groups in the area. A visit or a helping hand would be greatly appreciated and will help put things into perspective. Also don’t sweat the small stuff so much.
Why are folks obsessed with the areas in which they cannot play (BBP or BHB)? It reminds me of the old joke about the preacher who bores his congregation with a sermon lamenting about who is not present in the church.
lol denton. seeing your post was kinda eye opening. anyway it’s lunchtime, time for my vinegar sandwich
*rob*
“I’m never going to get into those play areas am I!”
Lady, You are going to be spending A LOT of time in such places! Don’t be in such a rush!!
How are you feeling? Ready to pop?
Interesting sidenote in the history of medicine.
Sigmund Freud, the father of modern day psychoanalysis, only came to an understanding and breakthrough in his “talking cure” after much failure.
In his letters to a colleague, he basically states that he was meeting with failure so often that he began to doubt his ability to help certain patients.
It was only after suffering through years of failing to help patients in their mental illnesses that he developed a new understanding of the underlying factors at play. Medicine is still evolving along those lines, especially the science of mental health.
hey benson, do you (or anyone else) speak Japanese? I have a client in Japan asking me for some kind of ‘can’t be used in nuclear war’ certificate and he can’t explain exactly what he wants.
What time is dusk?
Went to the ‘NO adults allowed playground’ to frolic (without kids! All day yesterday, I was practicing raising my middle finger quickly in cause anyone called me out on my kidless entry into the play areas).
It was still light out when we got there, but the gates were closed and they were cleaning.
I’m never going to get into those play areas am I!?!?!?
[SIGH]
who and what sucks today?
therapists
dibs
cat ladies
cats
million dollar apts
$15 ice cream cones
hood rats
trust fund students
taxes for single people
psychotropic medication
challenging jobs
SOHO
The 7 train
Broadway
Queens
TriBeca
the upper middle class
And it’s only lunch time!