Why are we seeing an upward trend towards prescription drug abuse instead of conventional ones like heroine?
There are many reasons. The major factors is that it is relatively easier to procure prescription drugs than conventional drugs like heroine. Secondly, non-medical users believe that drugs produced legally byreputable pharmaceutical companies are somehow better and safer than those created illegally in dirty clandestine labs with questionable ingredients by untrained individuals who may have direct links withorganized crime. As a result, we see an ever increasing prescription drug abuse in all age groups.
