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Prescription drug abuse



It is not possible that a doctor prescribe you a drug is not helpful for you but harmful for you. The doctor prescribes you a drug is medicines means prescription drug are medicines that are always beneficial for health and used in treatment.

Prescribed drugs are not harmful if these prescribed after proper checkup. These prescribed drugs make feasible many surgeries; gives relieve in pain to many people and enable individuals with confident medical conditions, like diabetes, to control their symptoms.

Taking these drugs without prescription of doctor becomes harmful for health. You have noticed that the selling of some drugs are not aloud in market till the doctor prescribe these drugs because overdose of some of these drugs are very harmful for our body and more use of these drugs became addict to us.

Taken prescribed drugs in bulk is now a modern style of drug addiction. This style is come in fashion because these drugs are available easily in market. Although these drugs are banned for selling without prescription yet the storekeepers ignore the rules and sell these prescribed drugs with no prescriptions.

Things we do to prevent our teenagers from prescription drug abuse:

• Keep your prescription drugs out of range of your kids.
• Notice the sign of abuse in your teens.
• Monitor the Web sites that your adolescent visits regularly on the Internet.

There are many reason of misuse of prescribed drugs. One of the reasons is reliving from stress. The story behind that is once the teens feel stress, and then he/she goes to the doctor. Doctor prescribe a medicine for stress, youngster takes it and feels better. Then next time he/she does not go to the doctor and took the medicine by self. He/she repeated this process again and again and starts to take this medicine in every problem yet it is or not or even problem is very small like for sleep. This becomes teenagers the addict of prescribed drugs.

The excess use of these drugs is very unsafe and cause of many diseases also. Long-term use of these drugs causes the addiction and high doses of these drugs stimulants can lead to compulsive use, paranoia, dangerously high body temperatures, and unequal heartbeat.


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