Medicinal drug abuse is the new curse on mankind
If we observe carefully, we can see that among the millions of people who get addicted to drugs every year, most do not use lethal illegal drugs, rather they use just the medicines like painkillers, anti-depressants etc. These medicines are extremely important in the medical field, hence they cannot be banned. The drug addicts take this opportunity and continue with their addiction. Lethal drugs like cocaine, heroin or morphine has been banned by the govt. of several countries. Due to which people who were once addicted to these drugs have shifted to painkillers and anti-depressants. This substance abuse has reached a huge extent in the past few years; people of varying ages get addicted to these medicinal drugs. Since these drugs are easily available, people do not find it much hard to get them. All they have to do is get a prescription from a doctor.
These medicines contain small quantities of opiates, which when taken in large quantity causes enough heightened feeling. Since, the govt. of many countries have banned the lethal drugs, the rate of substance abuse has increased a lot. The addiction to painkillers sometimes also comes accidentally; when a person is prescribed with any particular type of painkiller by any doctor, he or she may get physically and mentally dependent on it due to its prolonged usage. So, the doctors often change the type of painkillers prescribed to the patients. Accidental addiction to painkillers comes when a person is prescribed with painkillers for a long time or when that person changes the dosage of the painkiller without consulting the doctor. Some people get resistant to the initial dosage of the painkillers easily; at this time they increase the dosage without consulting the doctor. This leads to dependence on these medicinal drugs.
Once a person gets addicted to such medicinal drugs, only way remains to get them out of the addiction, and that is treatment in a world class substance abuse rehab. Only proper treatment and care can cure a person from the addiction disease. However, not just any drug rehab center can cure the drug addicted people. Medicinal treatment can be provided by any rehab, but the most important thing that many rehabs lack is the care of the medical staffs. During the treatment process, the drug addicted patients need someone to stay with them always and take care of them. The highly experienced and compassionate medical staffs of some high class rehabs do the exact thing; they take immense care of the patients. These rehab centers also provide a mind soothing and calm environment, which helps the patients a lot to calm down during the treatment. The sober living style maintained in some world class rehab centers changes the mentality of the addicted patients.
The substance abuse rehab centers try their best to help the patients realize that they can live without these drugs. Once this realization comes in a drug addicted person, they can get rid of the addiction easily. The most important part of drug addiction period is dealing with the withdrawal effects of drug addiction and the medical staffs provides a lot of mental strength to the patients to overcome the pain of the withdrawal pain.
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