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| Prescription drug death |
Prescription drugs, especially pain killers, are addictive
and deadly killers. A number of Celebrity deaths have brought to light the danger of prescription drugs.
Most
recently, it was Whitney Houston and before that Michael Jackson who died
due to prescription drugs. Michael Jackson’s doctor, Dr. Conrad Murray, was
convicted of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to four years in
prison.
Now, Los Angeles County
District Attorney has filed murder charges against a doctor for over
prescribing drugs like Xanax and OxyContin,
Vicodin, Soma and Adderall. If convicted, she could face prison
term of 45 years to life.
Dr. Hsui-Ying "Lisa" Tseng, 42, called Dr.
Feelgood, from Los Angeles suburb of Rowland
Heights is accused of prescribing drugs without proper
examination of patient’s history and condition that led to death of three young
men in their 20’s. Dr. Lisa Tseng wrote an average of 25
prescription a day, totally about 27,000 prescriptions over a three-year period.
She was initially investigated in 2008 by the California
Medical Board and the DEA which led to suspension of her license to write
prescriptions in 2010. She had also surrendered her license to practice
medicine.
I think the more important issue is the drugs themselves.
There is nothing sacred about prescription drugs which cause a variety of
undesirable side effects and often death. Prescription drugs are known to cause
more deaths in the United States
than automobile accident. In some cases they do save lives but, more often, they
are mean of fat profit for the drug companies who often hold monopoly on these
drugs.
The best thing people can do is to cultivate basic simple
healthy living habits and, hopefully, not get to a stage where they are
compelled to any medication.
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References
USA
Today
