Pain Killers and Anti Anxiety Drugs

Clip thanks to www.healthstride.net Individuals take these drugs — initially — to counter discomfort or to deal with anxiety that is robbing them of sleep or sometimes, using drugs like Adderall, to increase their concentration. They increase their doses as their tolerance rises, but see no worries as the drugs involved were originally prescribed by their physicians. Eventually they end up on regimes of many drugs that lead to breakdown or death. Another key factor in this accumulation of potent drugs is the internet. Although it is supposed to be rigorously monitored to prevent people buying prescription drugs, reports indicate that these are routinely circumvented. In this way, powerful painkillers and anti-anxiety medication can be purchased in large quantities by significant numbers of people. As to the issue of painkiller addiction spreading to Britain, there is little doubt that this has already happened. Last year a parliamentary inquiry concluded that British doctors are unwittingly fuelling numbers of people hooked on prescription drugs that include painkillers, sleeping tablets and anti-anxiety pills. For example, the Home Office blames misuse of benzodiazepines for causing 17000 deaths since their introduction in the 1960s.