I saw a news item today about a 54-year-old woman being jailed for selling prescription drugs in North Carolina – where drug investigators say prescription drug abuse is becoming as prevalent as other drugs. Painkillers, as usual, are very common – you can get a drug rehab for OxyContin abuse now, by the way, and for other prescription drugs, but make sure you find a facility that has some experience with them rather than just with street drugs.

The woman who was arrested may or may not have been selling the drugs to help support herself, but there are some older people who actually do that. They can’t live on their social security checks, so they take to drug dealing. Very sad, in many ways.

In this area of North Carolina the police say everyone from high-school students to seniors are re-selling prescription drugs.

You have to watch out for that stuff with kids – it’s especially prevalent in high school and college age – because a lot of people think the drugs are safe since they came from a doctor. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, a lot of people became addicted to prescription drugs when they got them from their doctor, not from some kind of illegal use.

Watch your medicine cabinets – that’s probably where the prescription drugs being sold came from.

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