Drug addiction

It really is sad how many people are affected by drug addiction. And even though there are many illegal and dangerous drugs out in our world today, one of the most common drug addiction issues has to deal with prescription medications.

I live in Florida, which is considered a "pill mill" state. It really is a place that many people come to see a physician, get a prescription, fill it and then move the drugs out of state to sell them. I have grown up with many people addicted to different things and to see people hurting themselves with drugs and abusing prescription medications is very upsetting.

I have seen people killed from, killed for, and even lose their kids due to addiction. And if a person survives the loss of their children, taken away by the state, or killed in an accident because the parents were too high to pay attention, the only thing that parent does...is continue to kill themselves with drugs. We have people robbing pharmacies and those pharmacies now refuse to carry certain medications because they fear for the safety of their employees. It makes me sick to see people that hurt themselves continuously.

What is really upsetting is when you see a baby that has to be given a dose of methadone so they don't die from withdraw because their mother is an addict and passed the drugs to her child. Most of the time, the mother will get custody of her baby too and the cycle will repeat itself.

This post was kind of dark for my stuff, but that seems to be my mood tonight when I have found out things about people that I knew.

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