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Doctors who did not follow the standards when prescribing medical narcotics such as
appetite suppressants, propofol and zolpidem have been ordered by the Food and Drug Administration to do so. The recent increase in teenage drug offenders is one of the reasons for this prescription problem.
Cho Dong-chan is a medical reporter.
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Mo Park, who is being treated for
drug addiction,
was easily prescribed narcotic drugs at the hospital.
[Mr. Mo Park/Drug addict: Fentanyl (a powerful narcotic painkiller) is sometimes avoided by doctors because it is classified as a drug anyway. Stimulants (appetite suppressants) I can get them everywhere.]
The Food and Drug Administration caught and warned 10,4 doctors for violating medical narcotics prescription standards and banned 154 doctors who still didn't fix them.
The most common doctors prescribed narcotic appetite suppressants, and they also overprescribed them to middle and high school students under the age of 219.
The number of teenage drug offenders has increased more than 16 times in the last five years, and the increase in prescriptions for medical drugs is one of the reasons.
[Younghoon Chun/Psychiatrist: Right now, friends who do illegal drugs and friends who do prescribed drugs are not divided, but they are all mixed.]
Normal prescriptions can also be abused.
[Mr. Park Mo/Drug addict: If you eat five a day, you give 5 days' worth of food and so on.
The problem is that drug addiction, which began in adolescence, is very difficult to correct even in adulthood.
Even if mild withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety occur in the absence of medicine, they should be treated quickly.
[Younghoon Chun / Psychiatric Specialist: You have appendicitis, but you have to quickly recognize that the disease (addiction) is not something you can overcome by writing blood, but that the disease (addiction) cannot be done by your own will and determination.]
People who are dependent on alcohol or tobacco can also become addicted to medical drugs within the norm.
(Video Interview: Han Il-il, Video Editor: Yu Yu-yang, CG: Choi Sky, VJ: Shin So-young)
"Narcotics were excessive"... 219 Doctors Ordered to Prevent Prescription
2023-03-09T12:33:44.292Z
Doctors who did not follow standards when prescribing medical narcotics, such as appetite suppressants, propofol and zolpidem, have been issued by the Food and Drug Administration for restraining orders. The recent increase in teenage drug offenders is one of the reasons for this prescription problem.
Source: sbskr