Prescription Drugs

Prescription Drugs
Prescription drugs are just as addictive as illegal drugs and are easier to acquire. The only difference is that if you have health insurance, you are only paying a co-payment for your medication and not the street price for it. The more you use a prescription drug the more of a tolerance your body builds up to it, thus leading to an increase in dosage and a possible addiction. There are many prescription drugs available today and some classes of drugs are more abused than others such as opioids, central nervous systems depressants, and stimulants. Let us look deeper into these prescription drug classes along with who is at higher risk than others and possible ways to treat and prevent addiction.
The most commonly abused classes of prescription drugs are opioids, central nervous system (CNS) depressants, and stimulants. Opioids are used in the medical field to treat pain, diarrhea, and coughing. Opioids originate from the opium poppy and some are conside...