[OldBullrider]

Drug abuse is drug abuse, no matter if it is prescription or illegal drugs.

[Vaduz]

Indeed it’s strange what the young and dumb call cool so their peers will except them,a weak lot indeed.I have no pity for anyone who goes out on the O.D. route.

[USNBandit]

Many of these people also suffer from a medical system there isn't the continuity of care required to walk the fine line between managing pain and becoming addicted.

I was lucky that the one time I needed pain meds for a prolonged period I was under the care of a doctor with a relatively small number of patients.