Drug Abuse Lessons
Drug Abuse Lessons
Prescription Drugs Should Be Taken Only If Prescribed Or It May Lead To Addiction
Do you think the prescription drugs are safer and less addictive than the street drugs? Then you are making a serious mistake. Most people usually take medicines according to their physician’s prescription but there are some people who use the prescription drugs for non-medical reasons. This can be defined as prescription drug abuse which is now days a serious and maturing problem. Even experts are indulging their valuable time to analyze the reason behind it. Certainly, the online availability is one of the reasons because online pharmacies are making the collection of these medicines easier without valid prescriptions irrespective of all ages.
Conscious or ignorant use of these drugs can lead one to addiction. The drugs may be narcotic painkillers, sedatives, tranquilizers, or stimulants. However, what type of drugs you are taking does not matter, but the important thing is if you have valid prescriptions or whether you are taking it properly and not in overdose. The medications, if consumed in an overdose, may cause the user’s dependence on these drugs. It works on the user’s brain and changes the brain’s chemistry, making it less effective at producing chemicals such as dopamine or endorphins. Once the brain stops producing these chemicals itself, it needs some other stimulants to produce. Thus the prescription drug addict becomes physically dependent on the medication. In this way, the body craves for more and more medications leading the user to addiction.
The excessive use of these prescription drugs steers the addict to anxiety, depression, difficulty in sleeping, loss of interest in relationships, and many more complications. The deduction in use releases the much known withdrawal symptoms. The withdrawal indications affect immunity and thrive on stability. Some surveys conducted by experts revealed that 85-90 percent prescription drug users, while suffering the immensely abominable effects, relapse and get addicted to the drugs again. A reliable rehab center like drug rehab sunset malibu can help you with prescription Drug Treatment by closely monitoring the issues related with addiction. In sunset malibu, you can get the proper and most comfortable treatment as well as psychological lesson which help the patient in eradicating the roots of addiction both physically and psychologically.
Moreover, there are different types of prescription drugs available which can administer diverse adverse problems. Some of the drugs and their mode of intoxications are given below diverse adverse problems:
Barbiturates: it comes in the pet name of Nembutal, Amytal, Birds, Yellows, etc. the excessive of its intake results in confusion, respiratory depression, poor memory, fatigue, etc.
Benzodiazepines: it may assume the pet name of Ativan, Xanax, Valium, etc and causes unusual excitement, slurred speech, dizziness, and fever.
Stimulants: cocaine, methamphetamine, etc. fall in the group of stimulants which can induce cardiac and neurological damage, impaired memory, hypertension, weight loss, and other coincidental problems.
Other opioid pain relievers such as oxycodone, hydrocodone are available in the street names of dilaudid, lorcet, Darvocet, tylox, oxycet, etc, the intoxication effects of which include nausea, constipation, sedation, coma, muscle cramp, etc. Therefore, we have to be very much cautious while taking those medicines and obviously under medical supervision.
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I believe i have ADD or ADHD…but i don’t think my doctor will prescribe me the medicine to treat it.?
this is because i am overly truthful with my doctor.
He knows that i am a former addict, abusing meth and heroin.
Meth, for me anyway, calms me down. It’s my happy drug. I can focus.
My heartbeat was even slower when i was abusing. Most people get wound up and find stuff to do.
Right now, i’m taking my friends Concerta and i’m in school. Drop out recovery, rather. i have already done 8 lessons and it’s 11 o’clock. somedays i can only concentrate enough to do like 5.
I was thinking about this last night before i went to sleep..( i can also sleep on meth, which most people don’t concerta/ritalin too) ((my friends stayed awake for 2 days while I only stayed up for about 24 hours because of a large dose of concerta (which is the only way i can get off)..i then slept from 8 in the morning to 5 in the evening.)) but my dad is ADHD. will a doctor perscribe ADD/ADHD medication with the knowledge of my past abuse? I’m honestly just trying to help myself…
find a psychiatrist and get tested for add and adhd. a regular doctor as it were cannot diagnose it. taking someone else’s medication can also be dangerous, you do not know what ramifications are possible and worse, your abusing a substance. if something were to go wrong, you can’t go to your doctor unless you confess your taking someone else’s prescriptions. heres a simple experiment that you can do that doesn’t require someone else’s prescription med. take a cup of coffee. no seriously drink a cup of coffee and see if your more alert and focused (BTW in not bullshitting). if you are more alert and focused, there is a chance you do have add or adhd, but self diagnosis means nothing, get see a psychiatrist and get tested.
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