April 14th, 2011 Beware of Prescriptions, The New Illicit Drug

Today’s drug abuse problem does not begin with criminal selling drugs on the street corner. It doesn’t begin with the house that was turned into a meth lab. Unfortunately, the problem seems to be starting in the medicine cabinet.

 

Prescription drugs are the new illicit drug of concern all around the country.
Around the country, people are becoming addicted to drugs, many of which are being handed out by a doctor. A good amount of these prescription drugs are of the opiate family, generally given to individuals for pain management.

 

More recently, the opiate prescription medication has also been used as a substitute method for those struggling with heroin addiction.

 

Although most doctors prescribe these opiates to help people, these drugs are being abused.  Some people get there prescription and sell them illegally on the streets.  In other cases, “dirty doctors” prescribe the medications for illegitimate reasons, and the drugs are either abused or sold. Opiate prescription drugs can be taken orally or the pill can be crushed into a powder and snorted or turned into liquid form and injected.

 

When the latter is done, snorted or injected, overdose has seen to take place, this is occurring more frequently every day.  Because the opiates are intended to be released over a long period of time, when they are snorted or injected, the blood stream is exposed to large amounts of the opiate and overdose can occur.

 

The other problem with prescriptions and opiates is that because they are so addictive a person can get physically sick coming off of them. Symptoms include cold clammy hands, hot and cold sweats, nausea, headaches and body aches and diarrhea. Because of this once a person is addicted, it is nearly impossible to stop using.

 

Because prescriptions legal many people think of them as ‘safe.’ This could not be further from the truth.

 

For more information on prescription abuse contact Narconon at 800-468-6933.