Monday, January 28, 2008

Over Prescribing Meds - The New Crime News

With the death last year of Anna Nicole Smith and now Heath Ledger of most likely prescription medications, is the new crime news going to be the doctors who over prescribe these medications?

Just how safe are the drugs we are taking? Many believe that if your doctor prescribed them, then they are sure to be safe. So wrong. Often times one doctor will prescribe one medication (or several), and another will prescribe something else, and the next thing you know you are putting a very dangerous combination of substances in your body.

I know because this happened to my father. One doctor prescribed a cortisone inhaler for a lung problem and even though my father had told him he had been on the blood thinning drug Coumadin for years, he gave it to him anyway. My father essentially 'bled out' suffering a massive hematoma in his lower back that resulted in the paralization of one leg.

This is just one example of what can happen, Anna Nicole Smith and Heath Ledger are another example - death. Some are speculating Ledger may have combined prescription sleep medications with over the counter ones, resulting in his death.

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