Americans addicted to prescription pain medication
American Intercontinental University
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Americans addicted to prescription pain medication

Topic: Americans addicted to prescription pain medication.
General Purpose: To inform.
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience of the epidemic of addiction painkillers.

INTRODUCTION
1. A deadly epidemic is happening at a rapid pace with Americans and pain medication
2. Reasons Americans abuse these medications.
3. General facts about the danger of these drugs.
A. Physically
B. Mentally
C. Overall behavior
4. Review and conclusion.
5. Thesis: Addicted and overdosing, Americans of all ages are abusing prescription pain medications. People need to be better educated about the danger of these legal painkillers. Better ways to prevent the rising addiction among Americans needs to be talked about more often.

1. What are the drugs being most abused and the shocking numbers of death due to addiction?
A. These drugs are known as opiates or narcotics.
1. Most abused pain medication includes, Hydrocodone which includes iodine, Lora tab, and Lori tan.
2. Oxycodone which includes oxytocin, Percocet, and Percodan.
3. Morphine and codeine are on the list as well.

B. The shocking numbers of increase dangers from these medications.
1. 3.7 million people filled 21 million legal prescriptions for opiate pain pills in 2007 (Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 2012).
2. There were 6,000 deaths that were accidental drug overdoses in 1990. In 2007 27,658 people died from overdoses from prescription pain medication (Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 2012).
3. There are 15 states that have replaced motor vehicle incidents as the leading cause of accidental deaths with overdose deaths from pain killers (Center for Disease Control & Prevention, 2012).

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