In Lakeland, Florida, drugs and alcohol killed Brian Hawks , according to the autopsy report. “He’s got a lot in his system” said Polk County Medical Examiner Dr. Stephen Nelson. “This is an acute overdose.” According to Nelson, Mr. Hawks was killed by a combination of hydrocodone, cocaine and alcohol. Mr. Hawks’ mother and Harold Maready, the principal of the school where Hawks worked, were in disbelief. Mr. Maready said Hawks “was a fine young man and this is very hard for me to believe.” His mother said “that can’t be possible.” Could he have been saved by drug rehab or drug detox?

Mr. Hawks, the band director at McKeel Academy of Technology, was only 28 years old, and no one even knew he was taking hydrocodone or cocaine. Could anything make the need for parents to be alert to prescription drug abuse more obvious?

In Shreveport, Louisiana a 14-year-old student was given some prescription drugs by a classmate and ended up in the hospital. The boy who had the drugs said he found them in a baggy on a school bus earlier in the day - muscle relaxants and sleeping pills. Some parent didn’t lock up their drugs or keep them somewhere where their kids would be out of harm’s way. Two 14-year-olds getting high isn’t a pretty picture: neither is a young man dead at age 28. One or both of the 14-year-olds may end up in drug rehab.

If you don’t want one of your kids in a drug detox or drug rehab program, lock up your pills. It’s too late for Brian Hawks, but it’s not too late for your kids.

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If parents from Maine don’t get the idea about how bad the drug abuse problem really is their kids will grow up needing a drug rehab program and drug detox.

There are many examples of this in the 2007 Youth Risk Survey. Several statistics stand out: 36% of kids are binge drinking and 75% said it is easy to get alcohol. But only 2% said they bought alcohol at a store.

I wonder if parents are giving their kids alcohol or if they’re turning a blind eye when they take it.

Prescription drugs are not covered in the report but at least 20% have used prescription drugs non-medically in the past year based on other national surveys. Most of the prescription drugs used by high school students come from a medicine cabinet. Heroin, cocaine and ecstasy use are also on the rise in Maine - those you have to buy from a drug dealer.

Drug rehab and drug detox will be part of life if you live in Maine. The Northeast has a problem with heroin and prescription drugs. If you don’t what your kids going to drug rehab and drug detox, lock up your pills and your alcohol.

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There was a demonstration outside an international meeting of doctors who deal in the treatment of pain. The purpose of the demonstration was to make the doctors aware of the problems Florida has with prescription drug addiction and the need for more drug detox and drug rehab. Lynn Locascio put it best “we’re the pill state; we’re the black market state.”

Prescription drugs are available all over Florida because it lacks a monitoring system. A monitoring system would make it harder for people to go doctor shopping and for Internet sites to send out pills without valid prescriptions. Some doctors have charged addicts large fees for visits, and then written them a prescription. A monitoring system could help end this to a large degree.

Prescription drug problems in cities all over Florida are well documented by the press. The rising death toll from prescription painkillers is also well documented in Florida. A drug detox and a drug rehab program can be a help to anyone who has become addicted to prescription drugs.

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After a three-month DEA and local police investigation, Anthony W. Yurchak, an elementary school teacher in Hudson County, New Jersey was arrested for selling prescription drugs. Yurchak, who taught gym at Mary J. Donohue School, allegedly had 200 stolen OxyContin pills on him at the time of the arrest and the police found another 300 at his home. The pills were apparently stolen from Midtown Pharmacy. The thefts were discovered after an audit determined that as many as 16,000 pills may have been taken. On the street 16,000 pills represent about $1 million, and a lot of people who probably need prescription drug detox and drug rehab.

Three others were also arrested, employees of the pharmacy, according to Hudson County Prosecutor Edward J. DeFazio. The employees also took Ritalin and Percocet.

The demand for prescription painkillers and stimulants is still on the rise, as is evident from this theft, and more people than we care to think are addicted to prescription painkillers.

It may be that the four arrested had a lot of customers who will now be looking for a new source. Those are the people that need help - I hope they find a drug detox and drug rehab program to help with their addictions.

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Most drug rehab programs will ask you to go to a drug detox before going into a rehab if you have a problem with prescription drug addiction. In Florida the prescription drug problem is particularly bad. People are addicted to or dependent on OxyContin, Xanax methadone and depressants such as Xanax and Valium. These drugs are all especially deadly and difficult to withdraw from. Many people don’t realize the effort it takes to stop taking them – it’s very hard to do without medical drug detox and, if you’re addicted, a drug rehab program.

As the death toll rises because of the misuse of these drugs, the epidemic that Sarasota and the rest of Florida are in will become apparent. Since 2001, 700 people have died from drug overdoses in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte Counties. The need for more detox beds is not surprising given that oxycodone sales have more than doubled since 2001.

If you are addicted to or have become dependent on any prescription drugs, look for a drug detox facility before it is too late. If you or someone you know is addicted to prescription drugs get help through drug detox and drug rehab before you are in the morgue.

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Is Canada gaining on the U.S. for OxyContin addiction and abuse? The availability and distribution of prescription painkillers is increasing the odds that anyone living in Canada knows someone who is addicted to or dependent on OxyContin. What are those odds? In the U.S. we see numbers like 10 or 20% of high school students abusing Oxycontin and other prescription painkillers. But we don’t often see it happening with 20% of kids in grades 7 through 12, which is what has been reported in Canada. And a good portion of them are eventually going to need prescription drug detox and drug rehab.

If you live in Kentucky, where prescription drug abuse is the highest in the nation, you’ll find as many as 20% of college students reported to be abusing prescription drugs. I’ve also seen reports of as many as 30% of college students using prescription stimulants.
 
Larry Grand from Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health said prescription drugs are very easy to get in Canada. “It seems to be everywhere and it seems to be accessible,” he was reported as saying in Sun Media. “”It’s cheaper than heroin and more reliable. This is why it is popular.”

This is not the case across the border - heroin may be harder to get in the U.S., but in most areas it is now cheaper than OxyContin and other painkillers. In fact, heroin quality is so high enough you can smoke it or snort it instead of injecting it. This opens the door to more people using heroin, and to more people needing drug detox and drug rehab.
 
Prescription drugs are usually easier to get because you can get them from friends or your own family’s medicine cabinets. You can also get them pretty easily from doctors and the Internet.

The numbers in Canada may be higher than in the U.S., but I believe the U.S. estimates are probably low. There may not be a clear answer to which country has the bigger problem but, no matter what the numbers are, a good drug detox and drug rehab program are the best ways to get off these dangerous drugs.

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Drug rehab and drug detox in

Nebraska for young people is a growing trend and both detox and rehab can help if you have become addicted to or dependent on prescription drugs. In fact, the best thing you can do for anyone on prescription drugs is get them into medical drug detox, and follow it with drug rehab. Most labels on pills will tell you to get medical advice as to how to get off them.

 

James, not his real name, is a 16 year old from

Nebraska – and he’s already in drug rehab. He says prescription drugs are very easy to get – kids take them from their parents, he told WOWT.com, so pretty much any kid can get them.

 

In fact, getting pills from a variety of sources is not a big problem for a young person. And because of this, the kids needing drug detox and drug rehab are getting younger. But what can you expect when you grow up with parents, teachers, family doctors and so many others who agree that it’s acceptable to take drugs to change your mood?

Nebraska isn’t any different than other state. In

Kentucky, 20% of teens are abusing prescription drugs. There’s no reason to think that the same thing is not going on in

Nebraska or any other state. Kids as young as James are snorting OxyContin, Vicodin or taking Xanax to feel numb.  According to Susan Schlegal, a counselor in Palo Alto, California’s Heartland Family Services, ”All young adults are usually about two years ahead of the curve.” I am sure she is right.

 

The best thing to do if your child if abusing prescription drugs and has become dependent or addicted – no matter what their age – is to get them into a safe drug detox program followed by a drug rehab program that will help them get down to the bottom of why they’re using drugs so they can get off them.

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Seven million Americans are abusing prescription drugs - an 80% increase from the year 2000 – and millions of them could probably use a drug rehab program for prescription drug abuse right at this moment, after a drug detox to help them get through withdrawal safely.

In Minnesota, prescription drug addiction and dependency has gone up right along with the national trends, according to Carol Falkowski, director of the Chemical Health Division of the Minnesota Department of Human Services. And with more than five million kids using pills for behavioral disorders, “kids learn at a very young age that if you want a mood change, you take a pill,” she said.

However, the real situation is even worse than it looks – kids aren’t the only ones taking prescription drugs to control their moods and behavior and to make them happy: There are millions of adults doing the same thing.

And most of them - kids and adults - don’t even think it’s dangerous.

A large percentage of them will need drug detox or rehab at some point in their life. If you are taking pills at age five, how will you function without them when you are 20? All of the children will need drug detox sometime, and so will most of the adults.

The long and short of it is that with the number of people taking prescription drugs these days, drug rehab and drug detox is inevitable for a large percentage of the population. And one of the major reasons is that once you start taking them, it’s very difficult to stop.

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Click through on the Paly Voice website – Palo Alto High School Journalism Onlne - and your kids may be able to buy prescription drugs from two different Internet pharmacies. They may not have to go doctor shopping at all or ask their friends for prescription drugs to get into drugs that are dangerous, addictive, and may well require drug detox and drug rehab to quit.

With all of the news about prescription drug addiction, dependency and abuse – and the numbers of people going to drug detox and drug rehab - should Google be running adds in a high school newspaper for Hydrocodone and OxyCodone. If you click through on one add it goes to Drugstores-Online.com, South Bay Drugs- CA License 43632 . You can buy 30 OxyCodone 80 mg. pills for $260. If you click through on another ad it goes to USMedCenter.Com where you can buy a whole bunch of drugs including Vicodin, Lortab and Norco.

Of course this is computer generated and maybe you can’t blame anyone. but if I had a child who went to Pal Alto High School I might be a bit miffed about this. The ads were above a story concerning prescription drug abuse at Palo Alto High School - kids that were snorting Vicodin tablets.

In case anyone is confused, Heath Ledger recently died of a prescription drug overdose -  a combination of six drugs. The White House ran an ad during the suoer bowl warning about prescription drug abuse.  One in 10 high school seniors abuse Vicodin and more are probably abusing prescription stimulants, tranquilizers and other painkillers such as OxyCodone.

Google’s offices are not that far from Palo Alto High School and, more than likely, a few Google employees have children attending Palo Alto schools. Some of the kids in the story will need drug detox and a drug rehab program, they probably don’t know what they are messing with. Hopefully none of them will overdose and die.

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Drug rehab or drug detox was, unfortunately, not among the choices Robert K. Hall made: Instead, he chose criminality to feed his OxyContin addiction. He committed and was charged with 11 crimes in Washington County and 14 similar crimes in Waukesha County according to court records. He committed these crimes to feed his OxyContin addiction. Unfortunately, his ill-gotten gains can’t finance the services he really needs – drug detox and drug rehab in Wisconsin.

It isn’t known how this 21-year-old became addicted to OxyContin or if he has tried to quit. Many people have found quitting so painful they resort to crime to pay for their habits. Some end up in jail and some are addicted for years.

Drug detox is the best way to stop OxyContin and most prescription drugs. If you are an addict you would follow that up with a drug rehab. If Robert is convicted of these crimes he won’t be going to either.

Drug addicts rarely make the right choices in life - In most cases, a family member or friend needs to intervene and help the addicted person get into either a drug detox or a drug rehab program. Do you have a Robert in your life you’d like to see off drugs and leading a good life instead of going to jail?

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