Florida Doctors– Conductors of the Oxy Train Ride From Hell

No state in our country has a more critical oxycodone epidemic than the state of Florida. On average, doctors in this state prescribe 10 times more oxycodone medications than any other state combined.

It seems as though the reasoning behind this easy access to powerful painkillers lies in the fact that there is minimal to no monitoring of these types of prescriptions. The Governor of Florida believes that monitoring would be a waste of money and an invasion of privacy.

What the governor is failing to realize is that oxycodone is one of the most powerful and addictive pain medications on the market today. It is called by many as “hillbilly heroin” because of how psychologically addictive the drug is and how negatively the body reacts when someone decides to try and quit using.

But the real criminals reside in the doctors who freely prescribe these drugs in the first place. The criminal activity revolves around the doctors themselves and their lack of responsibility to conduct background checks on their patients. They have a responsibility to refuse to prescribe this drug to patients who clearly don’t need it or do not understand the harsh side effects of oxycodone.

Openly willing to prescribe oxycodone to (usually) young adults allows these patients to get immediately hooked on these drugs and to visit the doctors on a weekly basis for more drugs. The doctors don’t seem to care about how negatively it affects their patients. And why should they? The patients that keep coming back are paying very high prices and this in turn gives the doctors a nice little payday at the end of their workday.

These doctors are nothing more than drug dealers with degrees. Florida’s governor needs to take a closer look at this epidemic and start to promote safer regulations before it is too late.

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134143813/the-oxy-express-floridas-drug-abuse-epidemic