There are all types of medications out there, all were developed to help ease or elevate some sort of condition. Some people’s everyday life depends on these prescriptions to be able to move around , keep from have a seizure or just plain blood pressure meds but the most popular medication today would be painkillers.
Pain killers which date back to 4th and 5th century B.C. have been used or abused for many years and there are many ways that get them into their bodies. The old method of taking medicine by mouth seemed to be the easiest way for most people unless admitted in to the hospital under the eye of the staff in which an i.v. or injection would be given. In today’s crazy world medical staff even your local pharmacies have to be careful of the person addicted to these “painkillers” countless robberies and stolen doctor scripts are a daily problem all over the world just so these people that need these medications have been cut off or are chasing the high associated with these meds, it has become a problem all over especially with the young kids taking these dangerous prescribtions for a fun time only for some to o.d. on or end up in the E.R.
Stories of kids and adults found dead from an overdose of pain killers is heard throughout the world, some do it for “fun” others try to end there life with them and others are addicted to these drugs. Many young people like to take these pills and have a few drinks not knowing the reaction that their bodies are going to take, other hardcore addicted people will smoke pills or even insert them in their rectum for a faster way into their system, there has even been cases of young people inserting tampons soaked in alcohol in their rectums which some have died from poisining, sounds made up, but this is what these drugs are doing to minds of people that abuse these medications, these medications Hydrocodone, Oxycodone,Tylenol, Anacin-3, Tempra etc were not intended for mixing in the body with or without alcohol and other substances. When they are mixed or not mixed they can generate a eurphoria that can be addicting, at high doses your body cannot keep up and eventually death will occur slowly or a complete body shut down, either way drug companies still produce enough pills for every man, women, child , dog and cat in the world, so these meds end up on the streets in the hands of addicts and drug dealers.
Medications are produced daily and are marketed by pharmaceutical companies to hospitals, doctors offices, there are stock piles of drugs throughout the world and some med keep getiing stronger and more people get a hold of meds that they are not prescribed and some end up dead, but companies still cranking them out, check out the numbers….
Market leaders in terms of sales
The top 15 pharmaceutical companies by 2008 sales are:[8][33]
Rank | Company | Sales ($M) | Based/Headquartered in |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Pfizer | 43,363 | United States |
2 | GlaxoSmithKline | 36,506 | United Kingdom |
3 | Novartis | 36,506 | Switzerland |
4 | Sanofi-Aventis | 35,642 | France |
5 | AstraZeneca | 32,516 | United Kingdom |
6 | Hoffmann–La Roche | 30,336 | Switzerland |
7 | Johnson & Johnson | 29,425 | United States |
8 | Merck & Co. | 26,191 | United States |
9 | Abbott | 19,466 | United States |
10 | Eli Lilly and Company | 19,140 | United States |
11 | Amgen | 15,794 | United States |
12 | Wyeth | 15,682 | United States |
13 | Teva | 15,274 | Israel |
14 | Bayer | 15,660 | Germany |
15 | Takeda | 13,819 | Japan |
..add those numbers up to see how many pills are out there and compare that to how many people there are = alot of pills for alot of people , keep in mind some people don’t need medication at all then you have your stock pile or reserve. There are indications of even stronger pain killers due out in 2013 for some reason I guess someone sees the oppurtunity to make more money.