Anna Malova and Prescription Drug Abuse

category: MyDocHub,Nutrition & Wellness
by Lisa,

With recent reports indicating that former Miss Russia 1998, Anna Malova is facing drug charges after stealing her doctor’s prescription pad and writing herself a prescription for narcotic painkillers, this highlights the rise in the abuse of narcotic painkillers which have seen a meteoric rise in use.

According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, “abuse of prescription drugs to get high has become increasingly prevalent among teens and young adults. Past year abuse of prescription pain killers now ranks second—only behind marijuana—as the Nation’s most prevalent illegal drug problem.”

The Long Island Press writes that Malova, the 38-year-old Moscow beauty was arrested Tuesday as she was walking out of a New York pharmacy. The really weird thing is that though she is a doctor in her native country, she is not licensed to practice medicine in the United States. Malova has been charged with criminal possession of narcotics, forgery and criminal impersonation of a physician.

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