Some people get confused with prescription drugs and over-the-counter drugs which are available without any prescription. All prescription drugs come in market after getting approved by concerned legitimate body such as FDA.

 

The reason behind taking approval is that all the prescription drugs contain medicinal values which can prove to be fatal for life if taken without any prescription. Even then some people, other than the patient, get access to these drugs and after consuming heavy doses feel vulnerable.

Perhaps this is the main reason behind all those warnings mentioned on the cover of each prescription drugs. It is also noticed that some patients consume heavy doses of prescription drugs, without consulting their doctors, to get rid of the pain. However, such patients usually end up fighting for their lives against the side effects of prescription drugs.

In order to avoid such complications doctors advice their patients to consume specified amount of drugs for safe and effective results. However, there are some people who knowingly abuse prescription drugs. Generally, these people abuse prescription drugs either to lose weight or to get high on life. While abusing prescription drugs people often forget that they can die because of this.

Undoubtedly, abuse of prescription drugs is increasing day by day. However, it is believed that many prescription drug abusers are ignorant teenagers who consume drugs to get high. Also these kinds of drug abusers are increasing at an alarming rate. Due to lack of proper information teenagers, unknowingly, abuse prescription drugs that adversely affect their body in the long run.

FDA and other concerned bodies are putting all their efforts in order to stop prescription drug abuse. They have issued several guidelines to which every drug manufacturing company needs to abide. For instance, it is mandatory for every drug manufacturing company to obtain a license before selling their prescription drugs in the market. Also drugs sold whether generic or branded must be genuine and as per the guidelines of FDA.



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While figures for some kinds of drug use among teens have dropped slightly over the last several years, prescription drug abuse shows no signs of letting up. Supporting this abuse is the ease with which our young people can lay their hands on prescription drugs to abuse, particularly prescription pain relievers such as hydrocodone, often marketed as Vicodin.

A recent report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University shows that one-third of teens who know prescription drug abusers say that these kids get their drugs from home. Another third say they can get these drugs from a friend or classmate.

The annual survey of teen attitudes on substance abuse drew the conclusion that probably half of all prescription drugs being abused by teens are coming from someone’s home medicine chest.

And this ease of acquisition showed in the statistics on prescription drug abuse. By 2007, one in every twenty high school seniors had found and tried OxyContin, a powerful narcotic painkiller with a high, when abused, similar to heroin. While this is bad enough, the statistic of seniors who had abused Vicodin, a painkiller containing hydrocodone, was almost twice as high.

“Prescription pain relievers like hydrocodone and oxydcodone are addictive, whether it’s teens or adults abusing them,” stated Derry Hallmark, Director of Admissions and a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor at Narconon Arrowhead. Narconon Arrowhead is one of the country’s leading drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers, located in Canadian, Oklahoma. “We help people of all ages, from eighteen to seventy-five and up, recover the drug-free life they lost. Seventy percent of our graduates remain drug-free after graduation, as a result of our holistic program that addresses the three main barriers to recovery: the cravings, guilt and depression experienced by every addict.”

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