Addiction

Addiction

I did a little research online and at school because of my curiosity for knowledge on why and how people become junkies and what make people do terrible things or bad people that do negative things for a simple chemical that makes them feel different. I guess I was examining myself also but I learned some strange but interesting facts.
There has been studies using comparisons in different situations concerning drugs and there legality and attainability, there addictive potential, situations like other countries that have not outlawed them, availability, illness that requires narcotics and so on. The findings are that making a drug illegal does not effect when and how often a person or group of people will use.
Pain patients are given endless amounts of addictive narcotics and they should be, but giving them access to the medication does not mean a person will abuse them, but it does mean they will become dependent, and might become addicted or a better word I have found to replace addicted is "necessarily dependent." That word (necessarily dependent) or the meaning of the word allows people to have a more acceptable perception on reasons to take prescription drugs. But you’re still just taking a DRUG!
When you could buy morphine and heroin over the counter, it has been proven that there were not more addicts or users of the substances, just different situations. They made them illegal except with a prescription. They still prescribe Morphine and its lil cousin hydrocodone. Yes, hydrocodone is nothing more than a Morphine equivalent made with Tylenol so that the abuse potential goes down and then they can prescribe the medication without a triplet prescription. Oxycotton is also a substitute to heroin, but as before, adding Tylenol to Oxycotton, (the heroin substitute) produces Percocet. Percocet is a way of prescribing Oxycotton, a triplet prescription without the triplet prescription and rules and regulations that come with writing triplet prescriptions. It seems to me that the government didn't take a hit from making certain chemicals illegal. They simply found a way to control and tax the drugs/medications. All the drugs are still here, they're just here legally.
Same thing in some countries were they have chosen not to outlaw certain things. There are not higher numbers of users and abusers then there would have been if it was illegal.
Drugs, medication, and pharmaceuticals may be a necessity to deal with pain from cancer, surgeries or injuries but at some point you have to be honest with yourself. Although it's needed and prescribed to you, it does not take away from the fact that narcotic pain medication is indeed a drug that your body unknowingly craves. If you follow doctor’s orders and take 1 10/325 Norco 5 times a day you are dependent or possibly addicted. It would take a doctors opinion to decide if you are addicted or just using the meds for their intended use, still making you dependent.
You can't get rid of addiction. It will ALWAYS be there waiting to destroy you or someone you care about. It's been studied It’s a fact! A couple Vicodin every day for a year will still make you tolerant, and addicted.
There is no argument that drugs are bad, but when used for good to comfort someone in pain or make someone’s life a little easier to get through or help someone become a functioning part of society they can work miraculously. These are important things to consider when making decisions about all meds that you may take especially addictive substances. Are you on them for the right reasons? Are you improving you quality of life or your ability to be a functioning part of society? That is the point in legal pharmaceuticals, comfort, relief, being able to take care of you mentally and physically.
The drugs are made for good reasons but used for the wrong reasons. I know that addiction is a personality flaw in both sides of my family. I come to this point where I have a problem and the doctor has a pharmaceutical solution that could cause addiction or possibly make me loopy (high). What do I do? My main example isn't even about pain medication the example that I want to use is the most severe. I can't go into public places. I physically am unable if you could even imagine. At first I feel like it will be alright and I go to the store and without any action from anyone or thing, I start sweating. Now this is not a drip of sweat on my brow. It's full on active, dripping piddling sweat. It scared my father. Now that part is just embarrassing. The complicated, unmanageable problem is that I black out completely. Sometimes I have a warning because I'll get dizzy but not always. My psychiatric insist that they are an extremely large panic attacks but I insist that I am not always having anxiety when it happens. That's the other problem. No warning 94.5% of the time. And all that brings me to my main malfunction. I know of medications that help me and I've been on them but everyone else has a problem with the type of med or side effects which is actually my biggest problem. I also have a substance necessity. I take pain meds when needed, you just can't tell. I need to be able to take whatever helps me.
I'm prescribed that medication at 10 mg 120 a month 4 a day. That might make me stoned but I have never taken more than the max that I just descried to you Most the time I'm taking them as prescribed. You have to keep in mind that I am only allowed a certain amount a month and they have to last that long or I'm S.O.L. so I really don't sit around high, I don't have that ability. I can't afford to be on drugs. I guess in my research I intended this to be kind of something else. I have to be honest, I saw my psychiatrist today and we discussed a few things about my anxiety issue. The truth is that I have been on and tried every alternative to anxiety medication. It just doesn't work even at the dangerously high doses. The outcome to our extremely long session was that he felt like I need access to anxiety medication. As always he just re-prescribed the same thing I've been on for years, Valium. If I've taken the medicine and someone says I sound stoned I will politely let you know that I have taken my medication. You guy have to accept that even one 10mg Valium might make me sound stoned. It does not mean that I'm abusing my medication. So where does that leave you or the better question is where does that leave me?