Prescription drugs are not foreign to most people. They can be found almost anywhere in addition to being relatively easy to acquire. Their abundance and convenience are the main reasons for abuse. The most widely abused medicines can be categorized into opioids, CNS depressants, and stimulants. CNS depressants are medicines such as tranquilizers or sedatives for use as sleep aids, while stimulants such as amphetamines are used with ADHD. Opioids of course deal with pain relief. One of the most popular examples right now deals with Dr. Gregory House from Fox's television series "House" and his addiction to the opioid Vicodin. He is a doctor, and is also open about his addiction yet no one has completely stopped him. Is this saying that this type of drug abuse is acceptable? I hope not.
Doctors are one of the main reasons for prescription drug abuse. After visiting the doctor, more often than not, you end up coming back with some sort of drug. Even if you don't need it, doctors prescribe something in order to satisfy the notion that you came to see them, and you expect to leave with something. This provides the opportunity for people to obtain drugs and sell them, or simply for their own abuse if they choose to. Recently my friend and I were talking about how stupid some of the methods kids are using now to get high when he brought up "pharm parties." Everyone grabs prescription drugs from their houses and throws it in a bowl, then grabs a handful and takes it. It is becoming increasingly popular among teenagers and not enough is being done to combat it. Just because prescription drugs are legal does not make them any less dangerous.
Well to start off I really like you picture of House. It is one of my favorite television shows. As brilliant at House is I think it is very sad that he has an addiction problem. Even though he is an amazing doctor he still feels thst there is something missing in his life that he has to take pills. When you were talking about the "pharm parties" I had no idea that anybody did anything like this.I have heard some pretty crazy stories about what teens do to get high but nothing like this. Maybe the doctors should be more careful about the type of medicine that they are prescribing to patients and not give them to just anyone.
ReplyDeleteI am strongly agree with the sentences you said even though “prescription drugs are legal doesn’t make them any less dangerous”. Today they are many teenagers are using prescription drugs because they have easily access to it they can find it any where. Which makes them think that is not illegal to use it just because it has prescription. Especially many teenagers get into this kind of problems, when they go to parties where everyone brought some kind of prescription drug and passed them around which most of the time they combining them with pot or alcohol.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the long term effects are of all these prescription drugs? It is really weird how everytime you go to the doctor for something minor, you get tons of medicine that have serious side effects. I love the commercials for any type of despression drug or mood stabilizer, where at the end of the commercial they list the side effects. Some side effects could be seizures, heart attacks, bleeding, and so on, so you may end up feeling worse than before! I feel that this issue is going to get worse as time goes on. Why are doctors perscribing more and more drugs? We should be able to trust our doctor's.
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