An alarming report came out yesterday in the USA Today stating prescription drug Addiction and abuse among US soldiers was at a more than an alarming level. Twenty Five percent of US soldiers have reported they had abused prescription drugs in the last year with the majority  of the prescription drug addiction coming  from pain relieving drugs.  The Pentagon survey of US troops, 28,500 in all, show a 1 in 5 ratio of prescription Drug Abuse and addiction among Marines.

Addiction is the miserable nightmarish state of compulsively using a substance, legal or illegal, regardless of logic, associated lifestyle problems and/or consequences relating to that substances use. Addiction knows no social boundaries be it race, religion, culture, economic, locational or age.

There is no sector or division of the population that is not affected by addiction.