prescriptionThe month of June has been designated as National Safety Month by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and sponsored by the National Safety Council. During the month of June, individuals are encouraged to participate in National Safety Month by sharing their ideas on safe practices and how to reduce the risks of injuries.

Addressing Safety Issues

There are specific safety issues identified as important to address during National Safety Month. In addition to safe driving practices, safe practices in dealing with the summer heat, measures to prevent falls, slipping and tripping, and the necessity to remain aware of the environment, prescription drug abuse has been cited as a national safety issue.

Prescription drug abuse is the intentional use of a medication (prescription drug) without having a prescription for it. Prescription drug abuse also includes using the drug to get high, or using it in a way for which it was not prescribed.

Narconon Arrowhead, an Oklahoma-based long-term residential rehabilitation center, published and made available an informational tool kit in support of National Safety Month. It serves to help raise awareness of prescription drug abuse, and its recovery and its treatment. Its purpose is to help children, families and communities recover from prescription drug abuse and its devastating consequences.

Prescription Drug Abuse Solutions

Narconon Arrowhead made the tool kit of information available on its main website, and its prescription drug abuse tools are accessible to anyone seeking information on the facts and dangers of prescription drugs. The tool kit also provides information on prescription drug recovery and its treatment.

Narconon Arrowhead’s Prescription Drug Abuse Took Kit provides this important, factual and useful information without cost as a public service, helping to raise awareness on the subjects of prescription drug abuse and addiction, and its treatment and recovery.

Through the use of social media, the contents of the Prescription Drug Abuse Tool Kit promises to be highly effective in spreading the awareness of issues attendant to prescription drug abuse.

Prescription Drug Abuse Tool Kit

The executives and staff of the drug rehab facility know the importance of making the information on the problems and solutions to prescription drug abuse broadly known, and are making it available as a free public service. The informational Took Kit is also provided in support of the efforts of National Safety Month to make a better and safer environment at large.

With decades of experience in both the successful rehabilitation of drug addicts and the delivery of highly effective drug prevention education to children and youth as a community service, Narconon Arrowhead knows the value of sharing factual and useful information with others as a means to preventing and resolving the issues of substance abuse.

With the state of Oklahoma currently suffering from one of the highest rates of prescription drug abuse and addiction in the nation, it is all the more important for the prescription drug abuse solutions being presented in the Narconon Arrowhead Prescription Drug Abuse Tool Kit be broadly disseminated and implemented.

States other than Oklahoma are also suffering from the onslaught of prescription drugs abuse, making the easily accessible online Tool Kit all the more vital in helping to understand and resolve the national problem of prescription drug abuse, treatment and recovery.

Narconon Arrowhead’s Prescription Drug Abuse Tool Kit is available on its main website.

For questions regarding how to handle harmful situations, for information on the signs or effects of drug and alcohol abuse, or for arranging the care of a loved one under the influence, please visit the Narconon Arrowhead website at http://www.narcononarrowhead.org

Sources:

http://healthfinder.gov/NHO/JuneToolkit2.aspx

http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/topics-in-brief/prescription-drug-abuse

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11881981.htm