Prescription Drug Abuse
Prescription drugs are the second most commonly abused category of drugs, behind marijuana and ahead of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Prescription painkillers help many people live more productive lives, freeing them from symptoms of medical conditions like depression, chronic pain or attention deficit disorder (ADD). But that’s only when they’re prescribed to a particular person to treat a specific condition.
Reports of prescription drug abuse for attention deficit disorder spiked 76 percent from 1998 to 2005, according to a study that examined calls to poison control centers across the nation. As with many other conditions, a predisposition to addiction differs from person to person. Your genes, age when you started taking drugs, and family and social environment all play a role in prescription drug addiction.
Academia wants you to believe that changes in the chemistry of the brain is linked with drug addiction in humans. The age old argument of nature vs.nurture tells us that we aren’t sure about that notion. So, is drug addiction carried genetically from parents to children or is the addictive potential a result of learned behavior from environmental exposure to parents and other family relatives dealing with addictions? Most people who are predisposed to prescription drug abuse have too few resources against stress and inadequate coping skills. Taking prescription drugs gives them pleasure by relieving tension, abolishing loneliness, allowing them to achieve a temporarily peaceful state, or simply relieving boredom. In short, we do not have enough genes for this idea of biological determinism to be right.
The nurture debate tells us that your fate is always up to you. More importantly, if drug prescription abuse is a choice, then quitting is also a choice. However, in solving the pervasive problems which have deep roots in our human motivations and emotions, we must see that socially based perspectives have little to offer.
The more plausible argument is that drug abusers are genetically predisposed. Today, drug treatment centers are typically operating on the belief that social or philosophical factors are causing the addictive behavior, and that if you change an addicts belief system we could end his addictive behavior. And yet, the success an individual attains, typically doesn’t last as long as the treatment. This superficial view comes from our governmental and religious orientations which maintain that addiction is the result of bad personal choices, weak character, and anti-social or irreligious behaviors. People do not destroy their families and careers because they choose to. They do not desire financial ruin, loss of self respect, being assaulted, or spending long and frequent periods of time incarcerated, just because its their chosen lifestyle. These are blind and ignorant attitudes.
The real psychological basis of drug addiction has an intrinsic nature. There are many cultural factors and environmental or social influences which are closely related to addictive behaviors, yet when given the same social, economic, and environmental factors, one person becomes an addict, while others who are equally influenced become abstainers, or more commonly, will experiment with drugs but never have substance abuse problems or become addicts.
This is the kind of awareness which ethical pontifications and statistical social research will never be able to uncover the true roots of prescription drug abuse.
Reports of prescription drug abuse for attention deficit disorder spiked 76 percent from 1998 to 2005, according to a study that examined calls to poison control centers across the nation. As with many other conditions, a predisposition to addiction differs from person to person. Your genes, age when you started taking drugs, and family and social environment all play a role in prescription drug addiction.
Academia wants you to believe that changes in the chemistry of the brain is linked with drug addiction in humans. The age old argument of nature vs.nurture tells us that we aren’t sure about that notion. So, is drug addiction carried genetically from parents to children or is the addictive potential a result of learned behavior from environmental exposure to parents and other family relatives dealing with addictions? Most people who are predisposed to prescription drug abuse have too few resources against stress and inadequate coping skills. Taking prescription drugs gives them pleasure by relieving tension, abolishing loneliness, allowing them to achieve a temporarily peaceful state, or simply relieving boredom. In short, we do not have enough genes for this idea of biological determinism to be right.
The nurture debate tells us that your fate is always up to you. More importantly, if drug prescription abuse is a choice, then quitting is also a choice. However, in solving the pervasive problems which have deep roots in our human motivations and emotions, we must see that socially based perspectives have little to offer.
The more plausible argument is that drug abusers are genetically predisposed. Today, drug treatment centers are typically operating on the belief that social or philosophical factors are causing the addictive behavior, and that if you change an addicts belief system we could end his addictive behavior. And yet, the success an individual attains, typically doesn’t last as long as the treatment. This superficial view comes from our governmental and religious orientations which maintain that addiction is the result of bad personal choices, weak character, and anti-social or irreligious behaviors. People do not destroy their families and careers because they choose to. They do not desire financial ruin, loss of self respect, being assaulted, or spending long and frequent periods of time incarcerated, just because its their chosen lifestyle. These are blind and ignorant attitudes.
The real psychological basis of drug addiction has an intrinsic nature. There are many cultural factors and environmental or social influences which are closely related to addictive behaviors, yet when given the same social, economic, and environmental factors, one person becomes an addict, while others who are equally influenced become abstainers, or more commonly, will experiment with drugs but never have substance abuse problems or become addicts.
This is the kind of awareness which ethical pontifications and statistical social research will never be able to uncover the true roots of prescription drug abuse.
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Prescription Drug Cessation
Prescription Drug Rehab • Prescription Medication Abuse
Prescription Drug Cessation
Prescription Drug Rehab • Prescription Medication Abuse
