Prescription Drug Abuse, dependence or the pill, as it is commonly called, and finally, 'pill withdrawal', we started by physicians to prescribe drugs, but has spread further after the emergence of "more than once prescribed" or "Reload" where patients go to the doctor without prescription renewed. This can be as simple as many people, such as visiting a pharmacy and filling out a form indicating the name, address, and the drugwant. This is then returned to surgery for the doctor to countersign. The problem is that these are often signed as a routine, rather than being dedicated to the needs, thereby facilitating the abuse of prescription drug.
If a patient begins to request repeats more often would be, you see? In theory it should, but in practice is not common. Not, that is until the next revision. Often times twelve o'clock, before the patient should be allowed backSpeak personally with the physician for treatment. Prescription drug, and the consequent withdrawal pill symptoms are usually overlooked by the medical profession.
The type of drugs that cause addiction are varied and pill) not only tranquilizers such as diazepam (Vallium) and nitrazepam (Mogadon. often codeine and codeine-containing analgesics are cocodamol and even over-the-counter painkillers such as codeineSolpadeine addiction support group is their own. The abuse of prescription drugs and more than one or the other of these two types of drugs: tranquilizers or painkillers. Tranquilizer pill withdrawal is very common in developed countries.
People with prescription drug abuse has involved all show a series of symptoms that are common to all patients with the withdrawal pill.
The main symptom of pill addiction is a greater tolerance to the drug, so thatThe user has a higher amount, the same effects were used to obtain them. Increasingly the drug is needed, and four times, is not unusual. This leads to many problems, not least of which is that it is difficult, the symptom for which the drug is taken primarily to control. For example, it becomes increasingly difficult to control the pain.
Those who suffer from addiction pill, which purposely did not do. Unlike other drug users,they are not included increasing doses just to get a "buzz". It's them little by little, over a longer period with the same drugs to treat their condition. Cocodamol is often used to treat arthritis, for example, and the abuse of prescription drugs in these cases is not an abuse, in the truest sense of the word.
The analgesic effect reduced when the body becomes more used to the drug, should last longer or the patient suffering from risingPain, which is the dependence pill. Is not conscious, but once you start, the patient can often little more than forcing the pill withdrawal symptoms themselves, keeping more and more. They know it's wrong, but can do little, and try to hide how much to take from his family. You reach a stage where they are afraid to admit it, and afraid to ask your doctor for help if the drugs are stopped everything.
Prescription drug abuse leadsphysical dependence, and the person can not function normally without a supply of drugs. The body adapts according to the presence of the drug and may, while it is being delivered, but if the course is the end of treatment, the patient is suffering from withdrawal symptoms pill. These can be severe, including physical illness, mood swings and aggression and depression. Ultimately, the pill can cause dependence, death by overdose. With paracetamol-based painkillerCodeine, for example, can be dangerous. Codeine overdose patient for the content, but the paracetamol is insidious and can cause serious liver damage over a period of time.
The most obvious sign of abuse of prescription drugs and that those involved can not stop taking them. Is the frequency of the model rules to increase again under some pretext, such as the need for special, because you just go on vacation, or access to medical-hopping. Internet hasis also easy to buy prescription drugs online without a prescription is required by the doctor treating the patient. As explained above, this type of pill addiction is not their fault and could do more to control the circumstances.
Doctors, and in some cases, the pharmacist should be aware of potential problems with long-term use of these drugs and to provide advice and help when the time came to stop them. The dose should be reduced graduallynot abruptly discontinue the offer. Prescription Drug Abuse and Pill withdrawal in a serious problem in otherwise innocent law-abiding people. It should be possible, brought half to adjust to change the chemical nature of drugs, with the necessary determination to reduce the possibility of this type of pill addiction.
Once the dependency has been confirmed, or, better yet, are authorized by a patient, the measures can be adopted for the treatment of addiction.Kicking prescription pill addiction is not easy, but better than a life lived, and the doctor can help make it easier to reach, with the techniques of gradual withdrawal.
Copyright 2006 Peter Nisbet
