Who knew that prescription pain medication was now the #2 drug right behind marijuana?

The use of prescription pain medication has become a lot more popular through out the years. A news article I read today talks about a nurse, who worked at a hospital and got addicted to pain medication. She started taking this medication for back pain and continued taking it. This medication was not hard for her to get because of the fact she worked at a hospital. The doctor said that the nurse’s story is not surprising at all. It’s very dangerous to be in a field where you have such easy access to these medications. More and more patients that come to the hospital are in the emergency room for one reason: to complain of pains so they can refill there prescriptions or receive new prescriptions for pain medication. This doctor suspects 2 patients a day to be seeking these pain medications. She also said that they have been very cautious with giving people pain medication, but they can never be too sure because some people might really be in pain. Even though pain medication is still second on the list, we will never know what happens. Who knows maybe some day soon it will rise to #1.