Diet Pills - Usage Trends

Usage Trends

CNN.com reported that in the United States, "prescription drug sales totaled $235 billion nationally in 2004, a historic high that was up 8.3 percent from 2003." Hundreds of millions of those dollars are spent on prescription diet pills each year.

Prescription diet pills are manufactured for the treatment of obesity, an increasingly common medical problem. However, overweight people are not the only ones using diet pills. Some people obtain prescription-only diet pills to lose a few pounds quickly. Others have eating disorders and develop a psychological dependenceThe belief that a person needs to take a certain substance in order to function, whether that person really does or not. on the pills. People who lose weight using diet pills run the risk of regaining those pounds once they stop taking the drugs. This contributes to an endless cycle of weight loss followed by weight gain.