In order to protect our loved ones from drug abuse, it’s smart to start with some of the most dangerous drugs. By getting educated on the drugs that take the most lives and taking action to protect our families from them, we can start with the worst culprits and work forward from there.
It could seem like the first drugs to protect against would be some of the “scary” street drugs, but that might not always be the best plan. After all, the fastest spreading drug abuse epidemic in the country right now is dependence on prescription drugs. There are hundreds of different types of prescription drugs on the market right now, and they are prescribed in the millions. Doctors give out enough meds for every American adult in the country to be medicated around the clock.
Many of these drugs are powerful psychotropic drugs prescribed by psychiatrists to mess with your brain chemistry. Still more prescriptions are written for opiate pain pills in order to dull the pain that many Americans feel from injuries and surgeries that they’ve undergone. While no one wants to live with constant pain, many people don’t understand just how powerful these pain pills actually are.
How Americans Get Hooked on Prescription Drugs
If you take any drug for a long period of time, your body starts to get used to that drug and will counteract its effects. For example, a pain pill like Vicodin could be designed to keep you from feeling pain all day, but after you’ve taken it for a few months it might only dull your pain for a few hours.
What’s the solution for patients that find themselves in this situation? They simply start taking more of their pills. The problem with that approach is that it can lead to becoming dependent on the drug. Just like you can get hooked on heroin or morphine, you can also get hooked on painkillers.
Once you are dependent on these drugs, you then have to start finding ways to get more of them. Doctors aren’t supposed to up your dosage because you’ve become addicted, of course, so many Americans will start turning to the street to buy more. The pills are expensive, however, so the next stop is starting to buy heroin as a cheaper replacement that creates the same kind of high.
Stopping Addiction in Its Tracks
In order to fight back against the spread of drug abuse, Narconon centers have started a counteroffensive. They are releasing informational packets and drug prevention toolkits to help families, schools and community groups all over the country to learn about drug abuse. With these informational tools, concerned citizens can take the first important step towards preventing drug abuse.
Most cases of addiction come about because of problems in the person’s life that he then tries to handle with drug use. If more Americans understood how bad of an idea it was to do this, they could be persuaded to try healthier means of handling their difficulties.
Narconon centers are also making an impact by helping rehabilitate Americans that have already become addicted to these drugs. When prescription pain pills are creating more fatal overdoses every day, Narconon centers have to work fast to get addicts treatment before they accidentally kill themselves.
If you know someone that is abusing any type of drugs, talk to your nearest Narconon center today to find out what you can do about it. Informational tools might be the answer your loved one needs, but it might also be time for a life-saving drug rehab intervention.
