Prescription drug addiction has become one of the number one addictions in the United States. An addicted person cannot stop using prescribed medications, like most other people, when they find out they are destructive. This is due to the brain becoming “rewired” after having a continuous use of addictive prescription drugs. An addict that becomes addicted to prescription medication cannot stop on their own without receiving help. Noticing the following symptoms can make you aware of someone being addicted to prescription drugs:
- Sleep patterns will have altered levels such as having the urge of being very active for hours at a time to sleeping for hours and hours
- Anxiety relief
- Mood changes such as being happy go lucky to being belligerent
- No self confidence
- Painful and unpleasant symptoms when the medication is not taken
The following have a much greater risk of having an addiction to prescription drugs. Adolescents, women, or elderly people that have a medical condition that may require pain medicine, family history of drug addiction, poverty, overworked or fatigue, alcoholics, someone that may be suffering from depression, obesity, or poor self-confidence. Women are more than likely to become addicted to prescription medication than men and elders because they take a lot more medicine than other individuals, making their odds a lot higher to become addicted. Finally the most increased age of prescription medication addiction is the age of 12-18 and then up to 25.
Most addicts will not be likely to have a history of drug abuse but rather they start out by becoming addicted to prescription medicine from being injured or having a medical or emotional problem. They become like this because the drugs will give them the relief or comfort. They are desiring and then the addict will want to increase their dosage because of the feeling it gives them. If you of someone you love is addicted to prescription drugs, contact A Forever Recovery now, before its too late.
