Inpatient drug rehab centers across the country are experiencing an increase in prescription drug addiction like never before. Its almost like the pharmaceutical  industry and medical field saw an oppurtunity to shift drug abuse trends towards stuffing money into their pockets. Thousands of addicts started flocking into inpatient drug rehabilitation clinics across the country, many of which had sought help in an outpatient drug rehab only to be prescribed even more addictive drugs like methadone and suboxone. 

Pain management clinics  started popping up all over south Florida and now other states. Millions of people started abusing these meds and now not only are the drugmakers and medical community spitting out pills like there is no tomorrow, drug traffikcers and dealers are in on the gig as well. Online pharmacies to boot. States like Kentucky and areas in east Tennessee are now seeing a rise in the number of "pain management" clinics being developed.

Law makers and enforcement officials are just a few steps behind in Florida having just recently passed laws that basically shuts down these pain clinics and associated pharmacies. This has had a tremendous effect on dealers and addicts in other states across the country. For example, the street market value opiate painkillers ranges from $30-$80 and pharmacy robberies are up over 80% across the board.    

Heroin dealers are taking total advantage of this with Mexican drug cartles upping heroin production over 340% since 2004 and selling black tar heroin for $10 a bag. As access to the clinics in south Florida is shut down, Tennessee inpatient drug rehabs are expecting an influx of heroin addicts seeking treatment.

Heroin is a highly addictive drug cultivated from the opium poppy flower and usually comes into the U.S. from either Asia or Mexico. Pain pills are also opiate derivitives making the transition attractive to prescription drug addicts.

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