Sequences involved in the process of illness recovery

As and when the weather changes, our body does not easily get adapted. We often fall sick and immediately rush to general physician. The doctor diagnoses what is wrong in our body and gives a prescription for medication, probably for a week or so. When again similar sickness is seen, we tend to take the same prescribed medicine, resulting in prescription medication addiction.

How do we end up in prescription medication addiction cycle?

To explain this better, let us take an example of normal headache. A severe headache made us visit the general physician. Diagnosis said it is normal headache and the doctor would have prescribed a paracetamol for three days. We end up assuming this is the medication for every headache we get. This becomes a habit eventually, whenever we get headache we end up taking the paracetamol, thinking this is the only medicine for cure. Slowly we think that without a tablet headache does not go away. This is how we get addicted to paracetamol.

Not just headaches, we end up doing the same for fever, cold flu and similar regular illness caused due to climatic changes. As we grow stronger, the viruses too grow stronger. So need not the old prescription works the same way and cures us off our illness.

Prescription medication addiction is a bad habit as for not all illness it works, sometimes it can be fatal.  Few brain affecting drugs are not to be taken without doctor’s advice. We need to be more cautious regarding the following important drugs

·         Often we have body pain and tend to take opioids. This drug works effectively for a short term only. Can be life threatening when taken as overdose. People get addicted to this medicine easily.

·         Due to easy life style changes, people often suffer with anxiety and sleep disorders. For this panic disorder doctor prescribes a drug of benzodiazepines class. Patients easily get addicted to this short term drug and tend to take it for a long period. It is proved fatal for a long term usage.

There are many other drugs to which people are getting easily addicted. The best practice is to visit doctor, diagnose our illness and consume the prescribed medication.