Here is a blog article by a chiropractic colleague based on a study from the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Researchers looked at the insurance data from 8,373 13- to 17-year-olds who visited a medical clinician for headache (which is a common ailment in adolescents) and found a shocking amount of narcotics prescribed.
• 46% of teens were given a prescription for a narcotic.
• 23% got two prescriptions.
• 29% got three or more prescriptions.
So why and how does this happen? How can half of mainstream medicine be so distanced from the medical research as to give a child highly addictive pain medication for a condition that it should not be used for?
http://lifecarechiropractic.com/blog/headache-in-teenagers/?doing_wp_cron=1396531253.5940539836883544921875
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