As prescription drug addiction, abuse and dependency rampages through Florida you have to wonder when the other shoe will drop. More and more people will need a prescription drug detox, followed by a successful drug rehab.

These statistics come from the Florida medical examiners office and, really, when companies like Cardinal Health are busted for drug dealing and doctors will sell prescriptions for thousands of dollars, you just can’t expect anything else.

Medical examiners detected drugs in 3980 corpses during the first 6 months of 2007 –what’s not so surprising is that 69% of the people who died had prescription drugs in their system. And that’s only in the first six months. We still don’t have the stats from the rest of the year, and God knows what will happen next year.

More people died with prescription drugs in their systems than cocaine, methamphetamines and heroin combined. That is really frightening, especially when you consider that over 50% of the population think they are safe with prescription drugs because they came from the doctor. It never occurs to them they’re going to get addicted or dependent, or need drug detox and drug rehab to get off them.

Florida has been hard hit by prescription drug addiction and abuse from Broward county right over to Sarasota. There are articles not just every day, but all day long from all parts of Florida.

Prescription drugs are so embedded into society that people think nothing of taking Oxycontin, Vicodin and Xanax or sharing them with their friends. Students take them from their parent’s medicine cabinets and buy them from their friends.

The sad part about the prescription drug problem is that so many more addicted people will eventually turn to heroin or other replacement drugs if they don’t get into a successful drug rehab. The supply of heroin is rising and prescription drugs will eventually be hard to come by as the DEA puts in more stringent rules and the supply dries up. Those addicts will turn to heroin: it’s cheaper and there is ample supply.

We will see higher numbers from every age group as people step forward to say they have a prescription drug addiction problem

Drug Rehab Referral is here to help your family find a successful drug rehab program when you need it.

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