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to procure- from the home medicine chest, a drugs store or simply buying it online, abetting its abuse. The U.S. government's Office of National Drug Control Policy has reported that cases of Oxycontin drug abuse had gone up by 500 percent between 1995 and 2002, with an alarming six million people in the grips of prescription drug abuse. Not surprising, since there are as many as 200 Internet sites that offer prescription drugs without a prescription.

Productivity at work place is badly hit due to drug abuse. In the United States alone, there are nearly 15.9 million drug users. There is an estimated $80 billion loss each year to American business because of drug, alcohol and substance abuse.

Getting Drug Abusers Back On Rail: Effective Strategies

Apart from drug addiction sparking a potential health crisis, it graduates to a social problem that triggers a host of associated troubles- Stress, domestic violence, societal violence, poverty and diseases.

One method of tackling drug abuse would be to evolve 'harm – reducing' strategies that strive to bring down the negative impact of drug abuse on society. The methods would revolve around sound education to avoid overdose, encourage programs that allow needle exchange to contain the spread of diseases and the use of opioid substitution therapy.

'Abstinence-Based' approaches also serve the purpose that entails an absolute abstinence from all addictive substances, encompassing licit, illicit, prescribed and unprescribed. The abstinence-based approach is what the medical community swears by for sedative dependence, which includes alcoholism.

Medical treatment of drug abuse adopts a two pronged approach, the first is, that of breaking the addictive habit and second is to provide medication to treat the associated health problems. Patients may go in for a prolonged treatment that involves strategies to prevent a relapse, which is supported with e
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