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OTC, Prescriptions & Common Remedies
Because certain drugs are manufactured by pharmaceutical companies, teens believe that prescribed drugs are safer than those drugs that are sold out on the street. This is why they often choose to go to a doctor’s office rather than to go on the street to procure the type of drugs that bring their mind state to a higher intensity. Adolescents as young as 12 have used prescriptions to elevate themselves in a dim manner as to get high. These ways will not change unless powered figures (doctors, parents, even patients) make a change. Don’t make it easier for the adolescent to obtain compelling drugs that will eventually ruin ones or thousands of young lives.
Doctors give so-called “treatments” that are easily misused. These drugs include pain killers such as, Codeine, Oxycodone, Vicodin and Demerol. Pain killers can cause severe respiratory depression and can even lead to deaths of unmindful people that abuse these substances. The longer one abuses these pain killers, this can direct toward physical dependence as well as strong mental addictions.
Doctors have also approved drugs like Nembutal, Valium, and Xanax (benzodiazepines,) which belong to the depressant family. Depressants are more likely to cause a drowsy, uncoordinated feeling. Large doses can dishearten breathing and cause one to enter into a coma. Durable abuse of this substance can also lead to physical dependence and mind addiction. They are also particularly dangerous when mixed other drugs.
Then there are the stimulants such as Ritalin and Dexedrine. These drugs raise blood pressure and increases the heart’s pace. When overly diagnosed, excessive amounts can cause precariously soaring body temperature and cardiac arrest brought on by an abnormal heartbeat.
OTC drugs are just as easy to benefit from. Some OTC products are medically used to treat allergies and colds. They contain drugs that can cause severe destruction if abused in large amounts for non-medical purposes. Cough syrups are equally perilous as teens drink them to intoxicate themselves.
For those who suffer from sleep insomnia, it’s easy to become addicted to over-the-counter sleeping pills, like Ambien. Most addictive sleeping pills include Antihistamines, which causes the brain to deplete its vigor throughout the day. Antihistamines are often found in allergy medicines. Antihistamines may also cause one to become weary and tired. Because this is in allergy medicines, it can also irritate whoever takes it because they are taking it due to sleep deprivation instead of allergies, but they don’t take notice. With sleeping pills, instead of getting more/better sleep, one remains physically alert, but mentally slumbered.
Though OTC drugs are not be used for any long-term use, it can be very dependent like any other addictive drug. Sleep medications are liable to diminish the quality of your sleep by plummeting the time you spend in a deep sleep. Still, the more this happens the more consumers are to believe that they need more and more of this hazardous drug, which means they have to purchase more whether from the doctor through insurance or in a Pharmacy.
The issues with prescribed drugs go deeper than the situations with teens purposely getting high and people growing addicted to the drugs. What about the children overly medicated for unjustified reasons? These children are diagnosed with AD/HD, depression, anxiety etc, and most without proper evaluation. Could the possible reason for uncontrollable behavior not have constructed from the lack of concentration, but from the countless hours they sit in front of the television set? A majority of children in this culture expend more than a fourth of their existence watching television. They also spend too much time at the movie theatre, on the computer, or playing video games. So what would make a parent allow a doctor to prescribe unnecessary drugs for their children?
America has the accountability of being aware of the harms that come along with misdiagnoses when in a doctor’s care. When a child does not have AD/HD (or ADD) but takes the medication to “cure” or help it, this causes that misdiagnosed child to act in a similar manner as an actual child who does have it. Eventually, concerns transpire later in that child’s life due to this reason. They may become dependent on that medication and soon will not be able to function without it. This is an addiction no more superior to any other.
The worst diagnosis a child can get is depression. No one considers the fact that it could be possible that the child is angry and just can’t let it out right now. Maybe they’re reinforcing frustration through their inappropriate behavioral actions and those that surround them are just not attentive. Giving children pills for depression can only worsen their state of mind; yet, doctors aren’t going to tell because the less a parent is knowledgeable on this subject the greater their doctors’ bank account gets.
Little does the public seem to discern, pharmaceuticals are the second biggest profit for the U.S., (the first is food). Drugs have become a quick fix for social/physical problems. The more of these drugs they make legally, the more currency is to be obtained. Therefore, they care less about the use of what’s going out and more about the amount of what’s coming in. Doctor’s can receive bonus pay for prescribing drugs. Hence, could the pharmaceutical companies only share concern for the proceeds rather than the consumers’ and patients’ health and well-being? Chances are too high to turn away in doubt.
Prescription drugs, over the counter drugs, or common remedies are easy to abuse and are less dissimilar from taking drugs that are sold on the streets. When riskily taking any drug, it’s as if one is taking straight heroin, meth, or any other dangerous substance. Pharmacists, as well as doctors and parents, should become more cautious as to what these young persons are doing. It may be inevitable to change some of their behaviors, but the trying is well likely to be worth the outcome. These young teens could do with a lesson on how to be young adults, but adults need to show them how to be. Parents need to gain more knowledge an learn actual facts about the medication their child is prescribed. Everyone should become more aware and remain alert when it comes to any type of drug in their grasp. It’s up to each individual to be self-dependable, attentive and vigilant. Drugs can only demean ones state of mind which later belittles them as a whole before they’ve completely faded away.
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Posted by sky18 on 2008-05-16 13:43:09 | Rating: | Views: 44
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