The end of every semester is a stressful time for every college student: struggling to catch up on homework, cramming for finals and writing papers. How do they do it? For many, the answer has become prescription ADHD drugs. One must wonder what the long term effects of these drugs are on the youth. Is it dangerous for their physical or mental health?…
There have been several recent shocking cases in the news of doctors who have let greed override their professional ethics, writing illegal prescriptions for addictive narcotic drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin and Xanax.
In the Los Angeles area, we covered the US-to-Mexico OxyContin and Vicodin Smuggling Ring. Dr. Tyron Reece has been charged with writing illegal prescriptions for over 900,000 OxyContin and Vicodin tables in a single year. Newport Beach doctor Nazar Al Bussum plead guilty to writing more than 60,000 illegal prescriptions for OxyContin, Xanax and other addictive prescription drugs and is now getting the book thrown at him. We have also covered the phenomenon of drug dealers on Craigslist becoming a huge phenomena. Now a Chicago seems to have combined a lack of integrity with a knowledge of cyberspace – but his motivation seems to have been lust rather than greed.…