A case in point
ODE
TO MY LITTLE SISTER Suzanne
I look around and feel this world close in on me, no one
could be as miserable
The
world is real but I all alone remain insane, insane, Trying my best to be normal but instead,
Schizophrenia haunts me night and day.
Why my psychologist doesn’t help me to live separated from
delusions, I don’t know I with my
husband and two small boys who would have a normal family life except for
me, Happiness resides with
friends where fun dwells and the air swells with laughter, And
continues on up to resonate the church bell towers across the street on to
heaven.
I breathe damp stale air in the bedroom, look around and see
the grey world, Ugly
objects standing steadily unconcerned uncaring giving me extremely scary looks. The days pass on, on and on, and my
delusions in our home on Denver street are there The long not
forgotten misery has turned out only sad memories for me.
Now just a way of life, I’m on the l nervous breakdown road That
winds, twines and intertwines through the dark day and night
Someday, I pray, I will get well,
leave my room and home, With
the messy bed, tattered books, dirty clothes strung about.
Pathetically waiting, yet unconcerned if I should try
to
Arrange then more appropriately where they would look More pleasing to the eye. Impossible! This room will never
Be anything but misery to anyone who might enter with a
Reproachful eye and try to change it before I die. Scrubbing
on the walls scrubbing on the floors, And only show the mars and mess that still exist Because
of my hyper-bipolarize and hypo bipolarize.
Fix the table, erase the writing on the wall, but alas
Arrangement
cannot exist where mess persists.
I finally sit contented and happy
that I like no one else must stay,
I cannot leave the room before fall because today
I’m
finally free you see I ‘m taking a cab to the capital to finally Pass
it all on to God
Prescription painkiller
abuse taking a toll on Middle aged women overdosing
Overdose deaths in the U.S. are rising fastest among middle aged women,
and the drug of choice is unusually prescription painkillers. Mothers, wives, sisters,
and daughters are dying at rates that have never been seen before Said Dr Friden.
The problem is one of the few health issues the CDC is working on that is
clearly getting worse. For many decades, the overwhelming majority of U.S.
overdose deaths were men killed by heroin or cocaine. But by 2010, 40 percent
were women who took prescription painkillers. Skyrocketing female overdose
death rates are closely tied to a boom in the overall use of prescribed painkillers.
The number and rate of prescription painkiller overdose deaths among females
increased about five fold from 1999 to 2010. Among men, such deaths rose about
31?2 times.
Overall, more men still die from overdoes of painkillers and other
drugs; there were about 23,000 such deaths in 2010, compared with about 15,300
for women. Men tend to take more risks with drugs than women and often are more
prone to the kind of workplace injuries that lead to their being prescribed painkillers
in the But the gap has been narrowing dramatically.
Studies suggest women are more likely
to have chronic pain, to be prescribed higher doses, and to use pain drugs
longer than men. Some research suggests women may be more likely to “doctor shop”
to get pain pills as did my sister. But many doctors may not recognize these
facts about women. There is a need for “a mindset change” by doctors, who have
traditionally thought of drug abuse as a men’s problem doctors should consider the
possibility of addiction if females, think of alternative treatments for
chronic pain, and consult state drug monitoring programs to find out if a patient
has a worrisome history with painkillers.
Especially focuses should be on
prescription opioids like Vicodin and OxyContin and their generic forms, methadone
and a newer drug called Opana or oxymorphone. These are dangerous medications,
and they should be reserved for situations like sever cancer pain Friden said,
adding there has not been a comparable increase in documented pain conditions
the U.S. that would explain the boom in painkiller prescription in the last 10-15
years.
Some experts said the increase in prescriptions can be trace to
pharmaceutical marketing campaigns CDC officials think more than 70 % of the
overdose deaths were unintentional.
One striking finding: The greatest increases in drug overdose deaths were
in women ages 45-64. The rate for each of those groups more than tripled
between 1999 and 2010
DR. KARL WALLACE D.D.S. To
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