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Prescription Drug Abuse - An Epidemic in United States

Everyone on this planet knows Michael Jackson a very famous pop singer. Various medical reports suspect that the death of Michael Jackson was due to various prescription drugs. If the autopsy report confirms this he would be one of the people who would be the victim to prescription drug abuse. In United States most susceptible people for prescription drug abuse are young adults and teenagers.

There is a still a question over Michael Jackson death: Did he die due to prescription drug abuse? Michael Jackson’s nutritionist Ms Lee said that he rejected Michael Jackson demands for powerful sedatives and told him that the drug Diprivan which he is taking has serious side effects.


Many of the celebrities which includes late actor Heath Ledger and Rock Elvis Presley had been the victims of this prescription drug sedatives and pain killers. This drug abuse is not only with celebrities but it is also common among teenagers and adults in United States.

In one of the incident prescription drug overdose took the life of 19 year old and nobody in his family knew that he was abused to drugs. Many say that drug abuse problem is so widespread in United States that it is considered an epidemic.

The prescription drugs are being prescribed to them by friends or family without the advice of physician or doctor. Even if any doctor is prescribing the drugs to them there are no competency test to ensure that these doctors are prescribing the drugs. For that what one should is make the doctor registered and licensed with Drug Enforcement Agency (ED) to handle it.

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