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Prescription Drug Addiction: The Hidden Epidemic

Prescription Drug Addiction: The Hidden Epidemic

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: An outstanding piece of work about a very serious drug problem. This book would be helpful to addicts who wish to recover. It would also be enlightening to family members who suffer due to a loved one's addiction.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A real eye-opener
Review: Colvin does a first rate job of exposing what is usually firmly held as a family secret--the abuse of prescription medications. His own family affected by this "hidden epidemic," Colvin goes the difficult distance to uncover the facts surrounding "legal" drug abuse in this country. Meticulously researched and documented. --Publisher's Report, National Assoc. of Independent Publishers.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book can help save lives. It's the first of its kind.
Review: Finally, someone has addressed the rampant problem of prescription drug abuse and addiction. This book not only details the scope of this problem in the US, it also has powerful anecdotes of recovery. It's must reading for families of addicts as well as addicts themselves.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This book can help save lives. It's the first of its kind.
Review: Finally, someone has addressed the rampant problem of prescription drug abuse and addiction.This book not only details the scope of this problem in the US, it also haspowerful anecdotes of recovery. It's must reading for families of addicts as well as addicts themselves.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Thoroughly researched, comprehensive
Review: I am greatly impressed by Rod Colvin's book. It is a thoroughly researched and comprehensive resource for understanding our current epidemic of drug abuse, intervention efforts, needed changes in drug laws and policies, and resources for recovery. The book is a unique and valuable resource that combines readability and clarity with outstanding authorative references.--Alan Hollister, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Colorado.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The rampant abuse of prescription drugs explained!
Review: I found this book excellent for coping and understanding my co-worker's abuse and addiction to prescription drugs. The book sheds light on a serious drug problem that has received way too little public attention. The author provides good insight on how individuals can become hooked on prescription drugs and begin the downward cycle of addiction. I recommend it highly!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An OUTSTANDING book on the subject!
Review: Rod Colvin provides readers who are concerned about their loved ones' prescription drug abuse the tools to both personally cope and take action to help. This is no small problem; as a paramedic, I have seen many, many individuals who landed in my care because of their abuse of prescription drugs. In fact, the number rivals those who abuse illegal drugs. And as the hippie generation ages, you can be sure you'll see the problem with greater frequency. If you have a family member, friend or loved one who you suspect has fallen into the grips of prescription drug abuse, do yourself and them a favor by buying them this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Could be a Life Saver!
Review: There are undoubtedly many Americans who abuse prescription drugs-- there are also many Americans who abuse food, alcohol, and gamble compulsively. Phobia of prescription drug abuse has led to untold suffering by thousands of chronic pain sufferers because doctors are unwilling to attract the attention of DEA zealots and state licensing boards ;controlled drugs are underprescribed in this country. Adding to our national paranoia regarding controlled substances cannot help: increased control will simply enrich black market drug dealers. This is a "problem" whose cure is worse than the disease. Anti-medication hysteria has led to the underprescription of pain medication for terminal cancer patients on the grounds that they may, even with a few months to live, become "addicted". It has also most certainly increased the use, by pain patients, of illegal drugs. This book encourages more of the same. The fallacies upon which this book is based are obvious in the title itself: real epidemics are never "hidden".

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Communicates to the reader in plain English
Review: This book explains addiction in real life terms...no fancy medical terminology or diagnosis. The author opens with his own personal story regarding the loss of his brother to perscription drug addiction. The book is also full of other personal stories which reveal the horrors not only endured by the addict, but by the addicts family, friends, and co-workers. This book is a must for anyone who is an addict, or for anyone who's life is being affected by one.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Communicates to the reader in plain English
Review: This book explains addiction in real life terms...no fancy medical terminology or diagnosis. The author opens with his own personal story regarding the loss of his brother to perscription drug addiction. The book is also full of other personal stories which reveal the horrors not only endured by the addict, but by the addicts family, friends, and co-workers. This book is a must for anyone who is an addict, or for anyone who's life is being affected by one.


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