CBS Features 3-Part Series on Rx Abuse
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric is featuring a 3-part series on prescription drug abuse. The first segment aired on Monday, November 26th. The Partnership’s President and CEO Steve Pasierb talked with Katie to offer our perspective on the issue.
Here is more information about the series from CBS.WEEK NOVEMBER 19 - GENERATION RX - Teen abuse of prescription drugs has TRIPLED in the past ten years. We go inside this epidemic for an intimate look at the users, dealers and people trying to fight it.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, PART 1
THE NEW CAMPUS HIGH - We meet a college kid abusing ADHD drugs to stay focused and to compete. We visit a town that lost several kids, including the Police Chief’s own son. Katie Couric reports.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, PART 2
CAN MARK BE SAVED? We go to rehab with a 23-year-old addict, whose habit cost his parents everything they’d worked for. It killed his best friend. His video diary takes us on his journey to clean up. Katie Couric reports.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, PART 3
THE DEALER AND THE DOCTOR: An attractive young drug dealer shows us how he worked the strip of pain clinics so prevalent in Florida. He tells us all about his partnership with a doctor. The dealer may LOOK like a movie star, but operated like a stone cold drug lord.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, PART 4
NEW TREATMENT: DR. Sanjay Gupta: A medication that promises to make treatment for prescription drug abuse easier, more private. Suboxone controls cravings like methadone – but has none of the stigma because addicts can get it from their doctors, rather than methadone clinic. The hope is that Suboxone will do for drug addiction what SSRI’s like Prozac did for depression, convince primary care physicians that addiction is a chronic brain disease, not a character flaw.
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It’s great to learn about this series, but I missed it. Is there any way to get a copy?
My spouse is on Suboxone and the one thing they forget to mention is that it is also an addictive drug and even though it has taken away the cravings for the prescription painkillers, it has allowed his craving for cocaine, particularly crack, to return. Now he is in a full blown return to the streets where he disappears for days and is risking his family, home and own business. How’s that for a miracle?
I understand what you are going through. My son was on Suboxone last summer. He would use that when he could not get high. He has been in rehab 3 times and he is only 20. I thought at the time, Suboxone - what at great thing.
How do I get a copy of this series as well?
I have searched the CBS news site and cannot find any transcripts or DVDs of news programs. If you search Google for “CBS News Transcripts” you will find services that offer transcripts of news programming.
As always, great segments from Katie Couric. Thanks!!
I am a community advocate for the education of parents on the issues of alcohol & drug use by teens here in Northern California. I am also the mother of 2 teen boys. My 16yr old is one of those “good kids” who experimented w/pain pills last year during his sophomore year of HS. When he decided to try alcohol it resulted in a trip to the ER for alcohol poisoning… he survived and is “sober” & a bit smarter today. But he is STILL a teenager! Pills and alcohol and street drugs DO NOT care who you are, where you live or the color of your skin. Drugs didn’t care that his parents have been happily married for 20yrs… which we play together, eat together, that we always support at each of our functions, or that we coached the sports teams and made brownies for school parties. It didn’t care that we have always talked with them about the issues they face & that these substances are not ok in our family… we were that “status quo” family…. drugs didn’t care!
We are reaching out and empowering the parents. Our city community action group has recently grown to involve numerous surrounding cities and has gained the support of 6 law enforcement agencies: local police, area Highway Patrol, and the County Sheriff’s agency. We just released our countywide alcohol campaign/social host program and Rx will be next on the list. [www.pcoparenthost.com].
I would like to obtain the DVD series for use in our Town Hall meetings and parent information nights in our local middle schools and high schools. Please let me know how I might be able to get these to assist in spreading the news.
The posting by Debbie L. caught my interest. I would like to learn more from the Rocklin California/Debbie L. about how they went about organizing the Parent/Law/School Action Members and subsequent Town Hall/Parent Info Nights. What is the agenda and content you use for them?
After a 2 years of using drugs (first Marijuana, then Ecstasy, then Oxy) off and on, my 17 year old son is now finishing up an outpatient drug program for his addiction to a variety of drugs/alcohol. As a way to help others from not having to go through what we did, there are a number of parents/counselors in our community that are looking at how we can get parents connected and better educated and it sounds like what Rocklin is doing might be a good model.