National Safety Council Issues Prescription Drug Addiction Wakeup Call

Novus Medical Detox Facility of Pasco County, Florida (http://www.novusdetox.com) Director Steven L. Hayes bidding able abutment and approval for the National Safety Council’s abode to the dangers of decree drugs at the NSC 96th Annual Congress & Expo this week. NSC President & CEO Janet Froetscher articular accidental biologic overdoses as one of the a lot of cogent home and association assurance issues arch to an access in deaths. In 2006, an estimated 24,000 humans died in the U.S. from accidental biologic overdoses, which represents a 100 percent access back 2000. Opening Session keynote apostle William Bennett, television commentator, radio host, above U.S. Secretary of Education and above "Drug Czar," echoed Froetscher's affair about biologic overdoses. His comments focused on the assessment decree biologic overdoses are demography on our nation and its workplaces.

“Drug overdoses accept now surpassed bashed active as the better individual antecedent of accidental abrasion afterlife in the United States.” Mr. Hayes stated. “Prescription drugs accounted for bisected of such fatalities in 2005 according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the numbers accept alone gotten worse back then. Based on what see at Novus Medical Detox Facility, decree biologic bribery and addiction are skyrocketing. When the CDC numbers appear in for 2007 and 2008, decree drugs will be the accident leader.”

Prescription affliction killers (opioid analgesics), such as oxycodone, methadone and hydrocodone, are the primary contributor to the accelerated access in biologic balance deaths, Froetscher said. A contempo analysis by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) letters that 10.8 actor humans age 18 and earlier acclimated a decree affliction anesthetic for non-medical purposes aural the accomplished year.

"We will advocate for added assets to be directed to analysis to bigger accept the problem," Froetscher said. "We aswell will accompany calm government, the clandestine sector, nonprofits and added complex parties to advance strategies to abode it."

Locking up decree drugs, aboveboard altercation of the dangers with adolescent humans and auspicious medical biologic detox programs for those who accept become abased or absorbed are a allotment of the measures recommended by Mr. Hayes.

While abounding medical detox programs crop abode in a hospital, Novus Medical Detox Center specializes in administration biologic dependencies in a clandestine ambience that is stress-free, adequate and safe. The facility, set on 3.2 abounding acreage 45 account arctic of Tampa, FL, offers clandestine rooms, TV, DVDs and top acceleration internet access. Detoxification programs at Novus accommodate detox casework for humans adulatory to abjure from drugs including analgesic detox, heroin detox, consciousness-expanding detox, booze detox, benzodiazepine detox and decree biologic detox. They can be accomplished at 877-250-8267.