Informative Speech On Drugs

A pharmacy is a place where we all receive health care from. Without a pharmacy, people would not have the opportunity to go to a specific place to take their prescribed medicines and discuss about their concerns to a pharmacists. A pharmacist listen to patients and help them the best way they can. Pharmacists are the ones who are able to see the patients record and receive messages from the doctor concerning their health, and accordingly give patients their medicines. In terms of pharmacy, it is said that medicines are ‘dispensed’. But, here I have a question. Are all medicines given to patients used in right ways? Can drugs be abused ? The answer to it is, yes drugs are being abused for many years now and not all patients take these medicines

It is not only us individually who harm ourselves, but it is also the people around us who loves us and to whom we are very important. Today, it is my pleasure to be here and share my thoughts with you people. Ladies and gentleman, I am Susmita Chowdhury, here to inform you all about the consequences of taking overdose of oxycodone. Oxycodone is a prescribed medicine but it is illegal to abuse it. However, not only adults, but also teens are very exposed to these drugs like in schools, universities through their friends. Some teens sell these drugs for money and it is very expensive. In pharmacies, these medicines are referred as CII drugs and when they are dispensed to any patients, the bottle contains an orange sticker which indicates that it is addictive when taken overdose of it. Usually, these drugs are prescribed in low amounts. They are kept in secret cabinet in a pharmacy and only pharmacists knows the code of the cabinet; pharmacy technicians are usually not allowed to dispense it without a pharmacist’s order. In local pharmacies, many people come to ask for oxycodones saying that they are in lot of pain but a pharmacists denies to give any or make an excuse of not having it. In the article, ‘Pharmacies Besieged by Addicted Thieves’ by Abby Goodnough states that, “More than 1,800 pharmacy robberies have taken place nationally over the last three years, typically conducted by young men seeking opioid painkillers and other drugs to sell or feed their own addictions. The most common targets are oxycodone.” Oxycodone is a very demanding drug in spite of it being so expensive. In the article, Goodnough conveys that robbery of these drugs has increased over the years and Mr. Hibbard, a pharmacists in Birmingham have put a warning on his store door that says, “We Do Not Stock OxyContin”. Hibbard says he