medpundit |
||
|
Friday, September 09, 2005Not even Katrina, it seems, can wash away the itch of addiction. In fact, doctors and nurses along the Gulf Coast report that the desperate and the craving have tried to turn the chaos of the hurricane aftermath into an opportunity to score prescription drug fixes -- pills almost certain to be abused. 'Oh, you begin to spot 'em,' said Shawn Tyler, a triage nurse working a mobile hospital plunked in a Bay St. Louis parking lot and staffed by medical professionals from North Carolina hospitals. 'When they keep coming back, keep complaining about pain, keep asking for a pill, you know they're trying to work you.' The tell-tale abdominal cramps and fidgeting, the vague complaints of aches, the gotta-have-something attitude -- doctors report seeing it all among a small but persistent population determined to cop sample painkillers or prescriptions for commonly abused drugs. posted by Sydney on 9/09/2005 08:58:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
|