How Dangerous are Prescription Drugs?

Recent studies have shown the risk involved in buying and consuming certain prescription drugs. This is most common amongst teenagers, but is also prevalent amongst adults. Now a days, it is very simple for someone to become in contact with these specific types of addicting drugs. The ones with the most concern are some of those prescription pain killers, such as Xanbar. The pain clinics, that can be found almost anywhere, are major contributors to this problem. All that is required to obtain pills from most of these pain doctors is a signature stating that person is truly in pain. Unfortunately, this is far too easy to prevent people from lying. In some of these clinics, they proceed with an "exam," which basically means bend over and touch ones toes. In fact, one teenager explains the dangers and threats involved with these drugs in a recent top story. I'm writing about this topic because I recently lost an aunt to a horrible addiction to pain killers. Hopefully it will not take an event of such extreme to make others realize how deadly these drugs really are.