Tennessee Prescription Drug Addiction Treatment
The major problem in the field of substance abuse treatment today is prescription drug addiction. Often people take the dangerous effects of these drugs for granted and end up abusing them only to end up with a serious problem in a short period of time. Drugs are drugs and have toxic effects and addictive tendencies regardless where they come from. Most of the street drugs outlawed today were at one time prescribed drugs. Heroin, cocaine and many other drugs were legal at one time. Methamphetamine is still used in many drugs prescribed for kids.
Prescription Drug Addiction is a HUGE problem! Find out more, call our hotline or fill out our form.
Just so you know our Tennessee drug rehab counselors take all substance abuse and drug addiction problems very seriously, prescription drug addiction is no different. If you have questions about any prescribed drugs you or someone you know are taking, call our hotline or fill out the form provided. Our experienced counselors are very familiar with prescription drug addiction.
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Treatment for Prescription Abuse in Tennessee & The Addiction Problem
Drug enforcement officials in Tennessee say drug trade is rampant drugs like cocaine and heroin, along with clandestine meth labs and has been for years. Being bordered by eight other states makes interstate drug trade evident with a large supply of drugs coming from both Mexican and Canadian borders. Most prescription drug addicts are coming right out of a doctor’s office.
There are a variety of ways this happens, people lie to medical professionals or become addicted after some kind if accident or surgery. Prescription drug addiction often leads to abuse of illicit drugs like heroin. Oxycontin, Percaset, Vicodin and Lortab are the primary culprits that cause this. Someone addicted to prescription drugs abuses drugs just like any other who abuses street drugs.
The toxic effects of the drugs has physical effects on the person that diminish the ability of the body to function correctly which contribute the depression and anxiety along other unwanted mental emotional feelings. The abuse continues in spite of negative consequences for the addict, like problems at home, work and often leads to illegal activity like prescription fraud.
Prescription Drug Abuse and Addiction
Prescription drugs are now marketed as medications and while sometimes needed, this is an attempt to lessen the knowledge or fear of the toxic effects of drugs. Drugs are drugs and when someone uses them they change the brain’s chemistry, making it less effective at producing chemicals like dopamine or endorphins. Now that the brain has stopped producing these chemicals itself, they must be introduced through another source. At this point, the prescription drug addict has become physically dependent on the medication.
The counselors here at Rehab Tennessee are familiar with all kinds substance abuse problems and if you or a loved one has a problem with prescription drug addiction and need help, pick up the phone and call our hotline or fill out the form provided!