Prescription Drug Addiction: Percocet

Percocet Addiction Facts.

“Don’t Become Addicted to Percocet”

Percocet is a narcotic (oxycodone) and acetaminophen (commonly known as Tylenol) combination. They are combined to get a synergistic effect on pain. Oxycodone is similar to other narcotics, such as heroin or opium, in terms of effect and addiction. Percocet addiction can affect the young, middle aged, or elderly. Individuals addicted to Percocet may come from any walk of life, hold entry level or high positions, be parents or grandparents, single or married.

Take this scenario: You are a woman, about 35 years old. You are not feeling well, and you go to the doctor. He prescribes a medication that will alleviate your pain. You take this medication, just as the doctor ordered, for a few weeks. You feel great. After three weeks, you stop, and start getting nausea, your legs start cramping, and you can’t sleep. What is the problem?

The problem is that on top of your original physical condition you are now addicted to a prescription drug: Percocet.

Sound familiar?

At this point you can do one of two things: You can go back to your doctor and get another prescription, which only makes it worse, since you have to keep taking Percocet to feel “normal”, or you can go to a drug rehab and get through your withdrawals.

The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia warns that Percocet addiction is common and far more widespread than imagined.

The risk for Percocet addiction is greatest among women, seniors, and adolescents.

 

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Alcohol Consumption and Pancreas Troubles

It is never surprising when study results again show that overdrinking is just not healthy!  Now the pancreas is added to the list of organs that are harmed by too much alcohol consumption.

Throw in the mind and the spirit and anything else human – they are all harmed by too much alcohol.

While studies that tell us what we probably already know can be interesting, a study isolating effective alcohol treatment would be more in the interest of public concern.

Not all drug and alcohol treatment is effective, but some is.  Let’s spend the public’s money finding solutions.

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“Long-term heavy drinkers were 1.6 times more likely to develop pancreatic cancer than nondrinkers, according to researchers at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.

Reuters reported May 14 that researcher Mirjam M. Heinen and colleagues drew their conclusions from more than 120,000 self-reported surveys on alcohol consumption, completed by men and women ages 55-69. They found that those who reported drinking 30 grams of ethanol daily — about the amount of alcohol in four beers, three glasses of wine, or two mixed drinks — had an elevated risk of developing pancreatic cancer during the first seven years of a 13-year follow-up period.

No elevated risk of pancreatic cancer was observed among light or moderate drinkers, the study found. “If alcohol plays any role in the etiology of pancreatic cancer, it is likely to be among heavy drinkers,” the researchers concluded.

The study was published in the May 15, 2009 issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.”

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Methadone Addiction: Methadone Detox

The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab Reveals Dangers of Methadone Abuse.

Methadone addiction has been around for a while.

Developed as a painkiller by Nazi scientists in World War II, methadone use came in vogue in the US in the 1960’s as a legal substitute drug for heroin and opiates. Methadone was not or is not ever used as a treatment for opiate addiction, as it does not treat heroin or opiate addiction but keeps the opiate addict from painful withdrawal.

For some, Methadone is used for pain relief and for others it is a favored drug of abuse.  For many, it represents a life planned around a daily trip to a Methadone clinic to avoid severe withdrawal symptoms – this life sometimes described as a life not worth living.

Many people have questions about methadone:

 

Is Methadone safe?

Methadone is a drug, and its use can and does lower respiratory and heart rates. Combined with other drugs or alcohol, Methadone use is deadly; the combination stops the heart. For someone not used to taking an opiate (many opiate users develop an incredible tolerance to opiates), a few Methadone pills kills them. Methadone related deaths are on the rise throughout the United States, in many areas higher than heroin or other opiate related deaths. Methadone contributes to more deaths nationwide than any other prescription narcotic.

Recently it has also gained popularity among doctors as a pain medication.  This can be dangerous is the patient is also taking other medications, or abuses Methadone.

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Prescription Drug Deaths Attributable to Xanax

Adolescent Abuse of Prescription Drug: Xanax.

It is a Schedule IV controlled substance, which means that it has a high potential for abuse.   There are at least 28 adverse reactions that can be caused by Xanax, including headache, tremors, confusion, blurred vision, memory loss and convulsions – not the ingredients for those who want to make the list of “those most likely to succeed.

The Atlanta Recovery Center Drug Rehab in Georgia warned that according to survey, kids take it for the relaxing high and because it is socially acceptable and easily accessible.   The prescription drug can be found in many family medicine cabinets or three tablets can be bought on the streets for five dollars.   Some kids take eight at a time.  They mix Xanax with orange juice, alcohol or an energy drink to intensify the effects.    Those who mix it with alcohol, are putting themselves at extreme risk.  The mixture of xanax and alcohol can result in respiratory suppression and even death.

A survey at a local high school revealed that Xanax abuse is on the rise with our students.  One student interviewed reported, “Xanax is the most commonly abused drug in my school.  Kids take it all the time.  They get it out of their parents’ medicine cabinets.”  He continued with, “It’s a bigger problem in my high school than pot.”

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