Number of Australians abusing prescription drugs on a riseMore and more Australians are abusing prescription drugs these days and the majority of abusers are in the age group of 20-29 years.

It was revealed by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia that Zoloft, a drug also behind Michael Jackson’s death along with Xanax and Valium, has been issued 230,000 times in the last 12 months. Valium was prescribed 24,000 times this year alone while Xanax was prescribed 5,000 times from January to May, 2009.

From News-Medical.Net:

Two years ago the 2007 National Drug Strategy Household Survey provided evidence that many Australians had an increasing addiction to prescription medication and this was backed by the results of a survey, released in December last year, which revealed that more than one million Australians have used painkillers for non-medical purposes.

At the time, 7% of people aged 14 years or more were found to have used painkillers, tranquilisers, barbiturates or steroids recreationally and more than half had done so that year - but the most popular pharmaceuticals were painkillers, with 2.5% of those surveyed reporting using them, and more than half of those users reported buying them from a shop or other retail outlet and the drugs apparently involved in Jackson’s death - Xanax, Valium and Zoloft - are widely used in Australia.

It was remarked by experts that more and more people are misusing these drugs and the usage may soon outnumber deaths due to heroin overdose.


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