AHS Views

According to News-Medical.Net, there is a new drug out there that is being tested for cocaine addicts. Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. announced that it has initiated its first clinical trial of CPP-109 – a drug given to patients with cocaine dependence and addiction. Whatever happened to sending addicted persons to drug rehab to get help?

Unfortunately replacement drugs are not new news. They are the latest in the “new drugs” said to “help” with any and all ailments and illnesses, both physical and mental. The result of taking replacement drugs and pharmaceuticals, in my opinion, is that more and more people are not only continuing their drug use, but because they are taking more and more drugs, they are ending up in a worse condition than they were before ever getting addicted to drugs.

Unforuntately, “replacement drug therapy” seems to be taking the place of drug rehab. And some of the non-addicts getting prescribed these drugs are ending up addicted to the replacement drugs, and suffering from their many side effects.

Several years ago I watched my grandfather dying of kidney failure in the hospital in his early 70’s. This didn’t make sense to me until I fould out that he had taken Ativan for 15 years. I finally understood why he was struggling with so many health problems and died at such a young age. He was given a drug and told it would “help” him with a problem he was having. Instead, he ended up with a much more severe problem.

Sadly, this is happening to more and more people – both those who are addicted to drugs and those who are not. The only good solution is to stop giving non-addicted persons drugs to handle their problems, and to get those who are addicted through a successful drug rehab program.