subject: Prescription Drugs are recommended by doctors [print this page] Prescription Drugs are recommended by doctors
Prescription Drugs are the drugs which are recommended by a doctor to cure one's illness. Though these drugs have many advantages but at the same time they too have certain disadvantages of which the most common is the drug addiction. Also Prescription Drugs are too costly for a common man to avail it daily because it has become a necessity for life to consume such drugs, especially in case of chronic diseases. The primary and most commonly found drawback of the Prescription Drugs is its addiction. Every minute one patient falls a victim to such drug addiction. According to a statistics as many as 17 million Americans have already fallen victim to such drug addictions. The most common among the whole population are the teenagers, women and senior citizens.
It is very true as a fact that a person might not have any instance of drug abuse or any sort of addiction but still he can get addicted to the Prescription Drugs. One generally starts using his prescribed medicines as a way of improving one's health but usually it leads to an addictive effect as when he feels better after such consumption the doctor advices to consume more dosages of the same medicines and in a way it leads to the drug addiction. Unfortunately one doesn't really get to know of his addiction as rarely anybody thinks it that way and it comes to his knowledge once such drugs start showing their side-effects. It is always one's self denial to such an addiction which leads to more and more addiction.
There can be many side effects to such an addiction, some of them include the addict will show more drug seeking behavior such as continuous craving at the time of need, there can be continuous mood swings from a normal behavior to a sudden aggravated one, displaying over confidence at one moment and suddenly replaced by complete lack of confidence, showing lack of interest in activities which one used to like, etc. Such a drug abuse is unfortunately the one which cannot be eradicated only by human will as there are addictives in such drugs which gives pleasure to the human mind and when such addictives are over the brain requires even more dosages to attain the same pleasure level.
If you are facing any such indications of a drug addiction then you require some professional help. Firstly one needs to acknowledge the problem of drug addiction which is a direct consequence of one's self denial. One should always think before consuming a drug as to if he really needs it, what are its ingredients, will it create any addiction, what other side effects it may have.
