Prescription Drug Treatment
What is wrong with today’s society. People always want the easy way out or instant gratification. We are finding people with credit card debts that spend more than they make and engross themselves with every type of self gratifying pleasure to feel good. Unfortunately one of the most damaging forms of this is trying to feel good by taking a pill. The pharmaceutical industry has gone on marketing rampage over the years and introduced drugs to “treat” every type of problem or unwanted feeling a person may experience in their life. Though advertised as a solution what millions of people never understand is that replacing a drug for some type of unwanted feeling or emotion only masks what is really occurring inside the body.
Prescription drug addiction has skyrocketed over the last few years. The psychiatric industry, FDA and pharmaceutical industry have made a killing making billions of dollars in drug sales. What most people don’t understand that high insurance costs is a direct result of this money making industry which produces a bigger problem for the medical industry to clean up. Most of these prescription drugs like painkillers, anti-anxiety medications, methadone, muscle relaxers, anti-depressants, and ADD and ADHD medications not only have fatal side effects but are also physically addicting. What this results in are people finding themselves addicted to a drug prescribed by a psychiatrist.
Drug and alcohol rehab programs are having a tough rehabilitating and detoxing a person because the withdraw symptoms are so nasty. Seizures, thoughts of suicide, depression, anxiety, apathy and complete hopelessness are all side effects of these types of prescription drugs. Though many times who a person addicted to a prescription drug may get frustrated because of the lack of effective types of treatment programs that can successfully detox and rehabilitate a person off of these drugs should not give up. There is a type of drug rehab that specializes in this type of addiction. A biophysical drug rehab program has been studied and found to be the most effective form of treatment for prescription drug addiction.
December 5th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I have suffered from alcoholism and prescription drug addiction for 15 years. Now that I am clean I have published my story is a book called Constant Cravings: One Man’s True Story of His Struggle With Prescription Drug Addiction. My hope for this book is that it will help addicts and alcoholics and their families as much as writing it helped me.
It is avaliable at
http://www.eloquentbooks.com/ConstantCravings.html
February 9th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
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