More Deaths Than From Heroin or Cocaine!
September 14, 2009
What an interesting article on CNN.com. More people are killed every year from prescription drugs than heroin or cocaine. The list of celebrities that have died in the last few years are a sampling of what’s really going on all over the country to regular people. While the need for drugs MAY be necessary in some situations, the over prescribing of drugs as a culture has caused MASSIVE damage to our society.
The bigger picture for me, as a mom, is to figure out how to keep my children off of drugs and I truly believe that it starts early!!
If we teach our children that we “take something” for physical pain, a cough, cold, symptom, ache, fever etc….. when they become teenagers and experience the emotional pain of figuring out who they are, peer pressure, and all the other “joys” of that time in life that they are more likely to want to “take something” for that too.
My job as a doctor is to teach one by one, the other ways to maximize your body’s innate healing power that is ALWAYS present and ALWAYS working for your body’s best health. Chiropractic care is not just for back and neck pain- it is to MAXIMIZE the optimal functioning of the body!The answer will NEVER be in a pill!!
Please bring us all the medications you are no longer using or that have expired- we are collecting them in our office so we can dispose of them properly! Did you know drugs are ending up in our water supply because people are flushing them down the toilet? We are all taking Prozac, cholesterol drugs and many more….scary isn’t it!
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I am so happy to read your post because it is so true what you are writing about. I love your thinking about prescription drugs!! The answer will NEVER be in a pill!! This is 100% correct. We have become a culture of believing everything what a person from the medical profession is trying to tell us. 20 years ago we did not have all the so called disorders and illnesses. EVERY single day a new illness or disorder is born and the solution shall be in a pill!! This is so wrong and I hope that more people like you are speaking out and are trying to educate the other people.
Thanks Nicky, this is our life passion and I’m glad you appreciate it! Thanks for the comment!