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Prescription drugs killing Michigan residents

Spread across the U.S, the issue of prescription drugs fatally harming people is affecting people in Michigan too. For even the slightest discomfort, people are taking to prescription drugs. Be it a small headache, backache, tooth pain, common cold, and other minor health issues, prescription drugs are seen as a fast and easy way of getting temporal relief.
Prescription drugs are taken indiscriminately. Such a condition is abusive in nature, because it is taken when it might not be needed. The people in Michigan are affected by their own prescription abuse behavior. Statistics indicate a higher death rate because of prescription abuse, than narcotics abuse.
What could be the reason behind this? Health officials say it is the accessibility of people to drugs that creates this situation. Doctors too add to the situation by giving out prescriptions for any small health illness. People are now relying less on their body’s immune system, and more on prescription drugs.
Young adults, and teenagers use prescription drugs as a legal way to abuse it and seek stimulation pleasure. They get replacement sensuousness which might be not the same as narcotics, but somewhere close to it. College going students use huge amounts of prescription drugs for sensory pleasures.
The chief culprit are painkillers. Taken for anything, painkillers become a bane after some time. Indiscriminate use of painkillers result in addiction, and eventually abuse of prescription drugs.
Something needs to be done fast. Health officials have to build a system around the accessibility of prescription drugs.

Delta Air Lines to Abandon Flights to Five Michigan Airports

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Delta Air Lines has expressed its disinterest in operating service to five airports in Michigan. As per Delta Air Lines, there is not much profit in operating these flights. It wants more money if it has to retain the services to the five airports. This is a clear indication that the cost of operation and the income generated might not be seeing eye-to-eye.

Delta recently conveyed the message to the Federal government. Not just five airports, a lot of cities are affected by this too. Some of the cities are: Sault Ste. Marie, Iron Mountain, Pellston, Escanaba and Alpena.

Some airport officials are hopeful that the government will increase its help to Delta by way of subsidizing the cost of operations. Delta’s absence from the airports might hit the consumers hard. A lot of transportation is at stake. Delta has a sizeable amount of people preferring its airlines.

The cities to which Delta has dropped services are under the federal Essential Air Service program. This program is concerned with subsidizing the cost of operations of airline operators in certain cities which would have been otherwise overlooked by commercial airline operators.

Delta’s announcement comes in the wake of fourteen millions dollars in losses. Almost all the losses were incurred by operating the flights to the twenty four locations. The government will either have to sit down with Delta and fix a deal, or otherwise for an alternate carrier.

Delta’s company spokesperson has said that it was not Delta’s intention to abandon these routes. It was just that it needed a financial lift.

Prescription drugs killing Michigan residents

Delta Air Lines to Abandon Flights to Five Michigan Airports

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