Why RX addiction is on the rise

Doctors have written more and more prescriptions for opioid painkillers and other addictive medications each passing year. Up until the year 2011, opioid painkillers were given to five percent of all patients at outpatient clinics, and to 15 percent of all patients who visited ERs. When a significant part of the population is given access to addictive medications, these drugs are likely to cause addiction among many of them. Many people are genetically prone to addictive behavior; many others tend to adopt drug abuse, simply because they suffer from psychological or psychiatric disorders that make the habit very tempting. Easy access to these medications makes addictive behavior far more common than it should be.

The most abused RX medications

In general, people tend to abuse barbiturates like Nembutal and Seconal, benzodiazepines like Valium and Xanax, sedatives like Ambien and Sonata, and painkillers like OxyContin and Percocet, the most.

If you have a prescription drug habit and find yourself taking these drugs without a doctor’s informed approval, you need rehab. In rehab, you are given medications like methadone and buprenorphine to suppress the cravings that you feel for drug abuse, and medications like naltrexone to keep drug abuse from being pleasurable. These are not medications that you could get without rehab. If you are addicted, seeking inpatient, evidence-based rehab is your proven way to regain control of your life.

The dangers of RX addiction

Drug abuse of any description comes with risks to your general health, and your personal and professional life. When the pleasure of substance abuse has your attention, other important parts of your life fall by the wayside. The greatest risk involved in prescription addiction, however, is to your life. As you continue to take prescription medications, you build up a tolerance for them. With each passing week, you may find that you need to take ever-increasing quantities, just to maintain the level of effect that you’re used to. An accidental overdose is always a possibility when you use addictive medications without a prescription.

Sober-friendly attractions near Cocoa Beach

Cocoa Beach is enjoyable for more than just its great beaches, surfing action and its proximity to the Kennedy Space Center. You’re never short of wonderful things to do when you’re in the city. The Sage Bistro, Pompano Grill, The Flavor Kitchen, The Cape Grill, The Fat Snook, Uno Pizzeria, and many other creative, and affordable restaurants dot the town. They give you fun ways to spend an evening when you’re done with the day’s rehab activities. If you’d like a good laugh, the Cocoa Beach Comedy Club is a great idea.

Legacy Healing Center offers scientific, evidence-based treatment for prescription drug addictions. It’s important to understand that quitting addiction is about more than just detoxifying. This short-term process is over within a week or so and frees you from the cycle of cravings and consumption that plague active addiction. Once you leave active addiction behind, addiction persists in the brain. People who detoxify, but who neglect to follow it up long-term rehab fail to address the problem at its source and tend to return to drug use before long.

Legacy Healing Center offers proven rehab that helps you make sure that you find out why you turn to substance abuse when you have the chance, and work out ways to stay away from the habit in the future. It may take weeks of rehab therapy, but our professional therapists help make sure that you get there.

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