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The Dangers of Abusing Prescription Pills
The Dangers of Abusing Prescription Pills This article, Taking America off drugs: Why behavioral therapy is more effective for
treating ADHD, OCD, depression, and other psychological problems, was written by
Alan Poling and Kelly B. Bradley. This article came out of a 184 page book written by
Steven Ray Flora. Steven Ray Flora states that there are about one hundred million people
that has died from a medical mistake each year. According to Frank, Conti, and Goldman
who are the expenditures on psychotropic drugs, that medications that was prescribed to
some patients were to improve their behavior. In 1987, 1992, 1997, and 2001 the cost of
these medications were in the billions.
There are more than 50 different drugs that are FDA approved as psychotropic medication. In 2005, there was over ten million prescriptions dispensed in the U.S., those drugs are Alprazolam ( Xanax ), with 34,230,000, Sertaline ( Zolft ), and Fluoxetine (Prozac) that was second and third with 26,976,000 and 21,403,000 prescriptions. Americans that are prescribed these kinds of drugs, usually become addicted. These drugs are very dangerous if they are misused.
The author, Steven Ray Flora says “ few people recognize the importance of the
environment, broadly construed, in the genesis and maintenance in human behavior,
whether desirable or troublesome.” The author has written this book to scare the readers,
drugs are not a necessary . . . read more.
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