Austin Boxe, a linebacker for the University of Oklahoma, was found dead after an accidental overdose on pain-killers, which were found in his body during the autopsy.After a study was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it was revealed that one in 20 people have been prescribed pain-killers for non-medical purposes. Some of these people ended up addicted to the drugs. There have also been cases in which overdoses have occurred that they can be tied to common narcotic pain relievers.

Dr. Linda Hunt, an anthropologist for the Michigan State University, went to different primary care clinics to research what clinicians are prescribing their patients with diabetes or hypertension. Her findings were that the doctors prescribed at least two or more drugs per condition. Some patients were taking five or more drugs.

A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, concluded that more drugs were being prescribed because the requirements for having an illness are becoming broader. This fact can be pushed on Big Pharma, a pharmaceutical company.

Pharmaceutical companies push doctors to overprescribe because this benefits them. They influence the doctors to take the easy way out and just prescribe the medication. Instead of helping the patient by giving them the right consultation for their medical problems, they just give them a large amount of medicine.

A large number of doctors are being caught for overprescribing medicine. Recently, CVS and Walgreens banned doctors trying to overprescribe pain medicine.

Doctors should be prescribing medicine only when it’s necessary, if the medical problem can be solved by any other means then that should be the procedure that could be done.