Prescription Medication Abuse
Prescription medications 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 medication 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 medication gives them pleasure by relieving tension, abolishing loneliness, allowing them to achieve a temporarily peaceful state, or simply relieving boredom. Simply, 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, truly, up to you. More importantly, if prescription medication 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.
They are looking in the wrong place, and from the wrong perspective.
Reports of prescription medication 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 medication gives them pleasure by relieving tension, abolishing loneliness, allowing them to achieve a temporarily peaceful state, or simply relieving boredom. Simply, 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, truly, up to you. More importantly, if prescription medication 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.
They are looking in the wrong place, and from the wrong perspective.
