Prescribing a Drug Problem (Part 1)
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This just in: Doctors may be prescribing medication to future drug addicts. Sounds pretty crazy, right? Well, it’s true. The same drugs that are being prescribed to help us may be the same drugs that end up killing us.
Here’s a true story for you: When I was in my second year of undergraduate school, I took a class with this girl who told us that she had been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) when she was younger. Because of this, she had to take Ritalin. She then continued to tell us that she would typically let her brother (who doesn’t have ADHD) take her medication as well. When I asked her why she did this, she claimed that it was because he wanted to be able to do better in school, and to do that, he had to be able to focus better. Her brother was convinced that this drug would help him focus since he saw that it was helping his sister.
How Addiction Begins
Stories like the one above are not unusual; and while this particular story didn’t show any immediate threats, the danger is still the same. Every year, more people become addicted to drugs that were originally prescribed to them by their doctor. According to a 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately 19.1 million Americans ages 12 and older used prescription drugs. The Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) also surveyed a national sample of hospital emergency rooms and found that of all the deaths related to drug misuse, approximately 1.3 million trips to the emergency room were associated with drug misuse.
People begin to abuse prescribed medication for a number of reasons. For younger people, it may have something to do with wanting to look or feel better while for older people, it may be more psychological such as being afraid that the pain from your arthritis might return.
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