Re: Prescription drug abuse may have led to man's death

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" His parents divorced when he was 4. The next year, doctors diagnosed

attention deficit disorder and put him on Ritalin, a stimulant and the first

of many drugs he would be prescribed throughout his life. "

And they say marijuana is the gate-way drug!

On 7/20/07, Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

>

> " Teenagers now abuse prescription medications more than any other drug

> except marijuana, according to recent research. Overall drug use is down

> nationwide, but prescription drug abuse is booming. "

>

>

>

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/collin/allen/stories/07200\

7dnmetprescripdeath.2f3807d.html

>

> Prescription drug abuse may have led to man's death

>

> Visits to multiple emergency rooms gave 20-year-old his high

>

> 12:10 AM CDT on Friday, July 20, 2007

>

> By KAREN AYRES / The Dallas Morning News

>

> ALLEN - When Jordan Hall didn't feel high enough, he found a way to get

> another pill. Xanax. Valium. Or OxyContin. He craved them all.

>

> In the past few months, Jordan prowled emergency rooms in , Plano and

> then McKinney, begging for prescriptions. He stole money out of his doting

> mother's bank account. And then on July 3, he met a dealer down the street

> from his house and paid $80 for OxyContin pills, a strong narcotic pain

> reliever.

> The next day, his mother, Susie, shook her son to wake him up so they

> could watch July Fourth fireworks together. His body lay stiff on the living

> room sofa, his head propped up like he was watching television.

>

> At age 20, he was dead.

>

> police are investigating the cause of Jordan's death, and the

> results of Jordan's autopsy won't be available for a few weeks. But his

> family believes that the craving controlling his life ultimately killed him.

> And his addiction was far from unusual.

>

> Teenagers now abuse prescription medications more than any other drug

> except marijuana, according to recent research. Overall drug use is down

> nationwide, but prescription drug abuse is booming.

>

> " It's the biggest change in the landscape of substance abuse that we've

> seen in 20 years, " said Tom Hedrick, one of the founders of the Partnership

> for a Drug-Free America. " This is as big as what we saw with cocaine in the

> 1980s. It is just as scary as that. "

>

> Nearly one in five teenagers across the country reported abusing

> prescription medications to get high at some point in their lifetimes,

> according to a Partnership survey of 7,000 randomly selected teenagers

> released last year.

>

> In Texas, an estimated 9 percent of teenagers and 14 percent of 18- to

> 25-year-olds abused prescription drugs within the past year, according to

> data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That amounts

> to about 528,000 young people.

>

> Experts can only guess why it's happening: Some teenagers say prescription

> drugs are easy to get. Many believe medications manufactured by drug

> companies are less dangerous than the marijuana, heroin and cocaine they've

> been warned against for years.

>

> Regardless, abusers have started sharing recipes for getting high on

> MySpace and other Internet sites, quickly spreading the problem to every

> town in America.

>

> " People are a little naive that we have this apple pie community and a lot

> of people with higher incomes, " Ms. Hall said. " They think they're exempt

> from all of this. If one person learns the danger from seeing what happened

> to him ... "

>

> 'Almost a learned thing'

> Jordan was unsure of himself from the start.

>

> His parents divorced when he was 4. The next year, doctors diagnosed

> attention deficit disorder and put him on Ritalin, a stimulant and the first

> of many drugs he would be prescribed throughout his life.

>

> " He has had pills thrown at him ever since I can remember, " said Rick

> Hall, Jordan's father. " It's almost a learned thing. "

>

> School was always hard. Jordan read paragraphs but couldn't remember them

> a minute later. He would later be classified with a generalized learning

> disability.

>

> At home, he constantly reminded his mother to lock the doors of their

> house. At age 7, he once asked his mom 41 times during a movie if his

> hamster was OK. He also asked his mother not to date.

>

> " You're going to live for a long time, right, mom? " Jordan frequently

> asked.

>

> Jordan loved to hang out with Mr. Hall's two older sons. Basketball and

> video games were his passions. Ms. Hall wasn't rich, but her only child got

> the Nintendo and later the Xbox that he wanted.

>

> <snip>

>

[Guest guest]

" His parents divorced when he was 4. The next year, doctors diagnosed

attention deficit disorder and put him on Ritalin, a stimulant and the first

of many drugs he would be prescribed throughout his life. "

And they say marijuana is the gate-way drug!

On 7/20/07, Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

>

> " Teenagers now abuse prescription medications more than any other drug

> except marijuana, according to recent research. Overall drug use is down

> nationwide, but prescription drug abuse is booming. "

>

>

>

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/collin/allen/stories/07200\

7dnmetprescripdeath.2f3807d.html

>

> Prescription drug abuse may have led to man's death

>

> Visits to multiple emergency rooms gave 20-year-old his high

>

> 12:10 AM CDT on Friday, July 20, 2007

>

> By KAREN AYRES / The Dallas Morning News

>

> ALLEN - When Jordan Hall didn't feel high enough, he found a way to get

> another pill. Xanax. Valium. Or OxyContin. He craved them all.

>

> In the past few months, Jordan prowled emergency rooms in , Plano and

> then McKinney, begging for prescriptions. He stole money out of his doting

> mother's bank account. And then on July 3, he met a dealer down the street

> from his house and paid $80 for OxyContin pills, a strong narcotic pain

> reliever.

> The next day, his mother, Susie, shook her son to wake him up so they

> could watch July Fourth fireworks together. His body lay stiff on the living

> room sofa, his head propped up like he was watching television.

>

> At age 20, he was dead.

>

> police are investigating the cause of Jordan's death, and the

> results of Jordan's autopsy won't be available for a few weeks. But his

> family believes that the craving controlling his life ultimately killed him.

> And his addiction was far from unusual.

>

> Teenagers now abuse prescription medications more than any other drug

> except marijuana, according to recent research. Overall drug use is down

> nationwide, but prescription drug abuse is booming.

>

> " It's the biggest change in the landscape of substance abuse that we've

> seen in 20 years, " said Tom Hedrick, one of the founders of the Partnership

> for a Drug-Free America. " This is as big as what we saw with cocaine in the

> 1980s. It is just as scary as that. "

>

> Nearly one in five teenagers across the country reported abusing

> prescription medications to get high at some point in their lifetimes,

> according to a Partnership survey of 7,000 randomly selected teenagers

> released last year.

>

> In Texas, an estimated 9 percent of teenagers and 14 percent of 18- to

> 25-year-olds abused prescription drugs within the past year, according to

> data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That amounts

> to about 528,000 young people.

>

> Experts can only guess why it's happening: Some teenagers say prescription

> drugs are easy to get. Many believe medications manufactured by drug

> companies are less dangerous than the marijuana, heroin and cocaine they've

> been warned against for years.

>

> Regardless, abusers have started sharing recipes for getting high on

> MySpace and other Internet sites, quickly spreading the problem to every

> town in America.

>

> " People are a little naive that we have this apple pie community and a lot

> of people with higher incomes, " Ms. Hall said. " They think they're exempt

> from all of this. If one person learns the danger from seeing what happened

> to him ... "

>

> 'Almost a learned thing'

> Jordan was unsure of himself from the start.

>

> His parents divorced when he was 4. The next year, doctors diagnosed

> attention deficit disorder and put him on Ritalin, a stimulant and the first

> of many drugs he would be prescribed throughout his life.

>

> " He has had pills thrown at him ever since I can remember, " said Rick

> Hall, Jordan's father. " It's almost a learned thing. "

>

> School was always hard. Jordan read paragraphs but couldn't remember them

> a minute later. He would later be classified with a generalized learning

> disability.

>

> At home, he constantly reminded his mother to lock the doors of their

> house. At age 7, he once asked his mom 41 times during a movie if his

> hamster was OK. He also asked his mother not to date.

>

> " You're going to live for a long time, right, mom? " Jordan frequently

> asked.

>

> Jordan loved to hang out with Mr. Hall's two older sons. Basketball and

> video games were his passions. Ms. Hall wasn't rich, but her only child got

> the Nintendo and later the Xbox that he wanted.

>

> <snip>

>

[Guest guest]

" His parents divorced when he was 4. The next year, doctors diagnosed

attention deficit disorder and put him on Ritalin, a stimulant and the first

of many drugs he would be prescribed throughout his life. "

And they say marijuana is the gate-way drug!

On 7/20/07, Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

>

> " Teenagers now abuse prescription medications more than any other drug

> except marijuana, according to recent research. Overall drug use is down

> nationwide, but prescription drug abuse is booming. "

>

>

>

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/collin/allen/stories/07200\

7dnmetprescripdeath.2f3807d.html

>

> Prescription drug abuse may have led to man's death

>

> Visits to multiple emergency rooms gave 20-year-old his high

>

> 12:10 AM CDT on Friday, July 20, 2007

>

> By KAREN AYRES / The Dallas Morning News

>

> ALLEN - When Jordan Hall didn't feel high enough, he found a way to get

> another pill. Xanax. Valium. Or OxyContin. He craved them all.

>

> In the past few months, Jordan prowled emergency rooms in , Plano and

> then McKinney, begging for prescriptions. He stole money out of his doting

> mother's bank account. And then on July 3, he met a dealer down the street

> from his house and paid $80 for OxyContin pills, a strong narcotic pain

> reliever.

> The next day, his mother, Susie, shook her son to wake him up so they

> could watch July Fourth fireworks together. His body lay stiff on the living

> room sofa, his head propped up like he was watching television.

>

> At age 20, he was dead.

>

> police are investigating the cause of Jordan's death, and the

> results of Jordan's autopsy won't be available for a few weeks. But his

> family believes that the craving controlling his life ultimately killed him.

> And his addiction was far from unusual.

>

> Teenagers now abuse prescription medications more than any other drug

> except marijuana, according to recent research. Overall drug use is down

> nationwide, but prescription drug abuse is booming.

>

> " It's the biggest change in the landscape of substance abuse that we've

> seen in 20 years, " said Tom Hedrick, one of the founders of the Partnership

> for a Drug-Free America. " This is as big as what we saw with cocaine in the

> 1980s. It is just as scary as that. "

>

> Nearly one in five teenagers across the country reported abusing

> prescription medications to get high at some point in their lifetimes,

> according to a Partnership survey of 7,000 randomly selected teenagers

> released last year.

>

> In Texas, an estimated 9 percent of teenagers and 14 percent of 18- to

> 25-year-olds abused prescription drugs within the past year, according to

> data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That amounts

> to about 528,000 young people.

>

> Experts can only guess why it's happening: Some teenagers say prescription

> drugs are easy to get. Many believe medications manufactured by drug

> companies are less dangerous than the marijuana, heroin and cocaine they've

> been warned against for years.

>

> Regardless, abusers have started sharing recipes for getting high on

> MySpace and other Internet sites, quickly spreading the problem to every

> town in America.

>

> " People are a little naive that we have this apple pie community and a lot

> of people with higher incomes, " Ms. Hall said. " They think they're exempt

> from all of this. If one person learns the danger from seeing what happened

> to him ... "

>

> 'Almost a learned thing'

> Jordan was unsure of himself from the start.

>

> His parents divorced when he was 4. The next year, doctors diagnosed

> attention deficit disorder and put him on Ritalin, a stimulant and the first

> of many drugs he would be prescribed throughout his life.

>

> " He has had pills thrown at him ever since I can remember, " said Rick

> Hall, Jordan's father. " It's almost a learned thing. "

>

> School was always hard. Jordan read paragraphs but couldn't remember them

> a minute later. He would later be classified with a generalized learning

> disability.

>

> At home, he constantly reminded his mother to lock the doors of their

> house. At age 7, he once asked his mom 41 times during a movie if his

> hamster was OK. He also asked his mother not to date.

>

> " You're going to live for a long time, right, mom? " Jordan frequently

> asked.

>

> Jordan loved to hang out with Mr. Hall's two older sons. Basketball and

> video games were his passions. Ms. Hall wasn't rich, but her only child got

> the Nintendo and later the Xbox that he wanted.

>

> <snip>

>

[Guest guest]

" His parents divorced when he was 4. The next year, doctors diagnosed

attention deficit disorder and put him on Ritalin, a stimulant and the first

of many drugs he would be prescribed throughout his life. "

And they say marijuana is the gate-way drug!

On 7/20/07, Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

>

> " Teenagers now abuse prescription medications more than any other drug

> except marijuana, according to recent research. Overall drug use is down

> nationwide, but prescription drug abuse is booming. "

>

>

>

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/collin/allen/stories/07200\

7dnmetprescripdeath.2f3807d.html

>

> Prescription drug abuse may have led to man's death

>

> Visits to multiple emergency rooms gave 20-year-old his high

>

> 12:10 AM CDT on Friday, July 20, 2007

>

> By KAREN AYRES / The Dallas Morning News

>

> ALLEN - When Jordan Hall didn't feel high enough, he found a way to get

> another pill. Xanax. Valium. Or OxyContin. He craved them all.

>

> In the past few months, Jordan prowled emergency rooms in , Plano and

> then McKinney, begging for prescriptions. He stole money out of his doting

> mother's bank account. And then on July 3, he met a dealer down the street

> from his house and paid $80 for OxyContin pills, a strong narcotic pain

> reliever.

> The next day, his mother, Susie, shook her son to wake him up so they

> could watch July Fourth fireworks together. His body lay stiff on the living

> room sofa, his head propped up like he was watching television.

>

> At age 20, he was dead.

>

> police are investigating the cause of Jordan's death, and the

> results of Jordan's autopsy won't be available for a few weeks. But his

> family believes that the craving controlling his life ultimately killed him.

> And his addiction was far from unusual.

>

> Teenagers now abuse prescription medications more than any other drug

> except marijuana, according to recent research. Overall drug use is down

> nationwide, but prescription drug abuse is booming.

>

> " It's the biggest change in the landscape of substance abuse that we've

> seen in 20 years, " said Tom Hedrick, one of the founders of the Partnership

> for a Drug-Free America. " This is as big as what we saw with cocaine in the

> 1980s. It is just as scary as that. "

>

> Nearly one in five teenagers across the country reported abusing

> prescription medications to get high at some point in their lifetimes,

> according to a Partnership survey of 7,000 randomly selected teenagers

> released last year.

>

> In Texas, an estimated 9 percent of teenagers and 14 percent of 18- to

> 25-year-olds abused prescription drugs within the past year, according to

> data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. That amounts

> to about 528,000 young people.

>

> Experts can only guess why it's happening: Some teenagers say prescription

> drugs are easy to get. Many believe medications manufactured by drug

> companies are less dangerous than the marijuana, heroin and cocaine they've

> been warned against for years.

>

> Regardless, abusers have started sharing recipes for getting high on

> MySpace and other Internet sites, quickly spreading the problem to every

> town in America.

>

> " People are a little naive that we have this apple pie community and a lot

> of people with higher incomes, " Ms. Hall said. " They think they're exempt

> from all of this. If one person learns the danger from seeing what happened

> to him ... "

>

> 'Almost a learned thing'

> Jordan was unsure of himself from the start.

>

> His parents divorced when he was 4. The next year, doctors diagnosed

> attention deficit disorder and put him on Ritalin, a stimulant and the first

> of many drugs he would be prescribed throughout his life.

>

> " He has had pills thrown at him ever since I can remember, " said Rick

> Hall, Jordan's father. " It's almost a learned thing. "

>

> School was always hard. Jordan read paragraphs but couldn't remember them

> a minute later. He would later be classified with a generalized learning

> disability.

>

> At home, he constantly reminded his mother to lock the doors of their

> house. At age 7, he once asked his mom 41 times during a movie if his

> hamster was OK. He also asked his mother not to date.

>

> " You're going to live for a long time, right, mom? " Jordan frequently

> asked.

>

> Jordan loved to hang out with Mr. Hall's two older sons. Basketball and

> video games were his passions. Ms. Hall wasn't rich, but her only child got

> the Nintendo and later the Xbox that he wanted.

>

> <snip>

>

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