Help! The GP will not renew my prescription! Consider this scenario: You have an appointment with your GP and are subsequently prescribed appropriate medication for
Prescription medication can be addictive and dangerous Any drug, taken over a period of time, and that time will vary for everyone, has the potential
What is addiction? The National Institute on Drug Abuse states that “addiction is the inability to stop doing a compulsive behaviour regardless of the consequences.”
Benzodiazepine addiction such as addiction to diazepam / valium It is not uncommon for residential addiction treatment centres to admit people for a Benzodiazepine detox
What are prescription drugs? Prescription drugs are medications that need to be accompanied by a prescription in order for them to be obtained. Prescription drugs
What is prescription drug abuse? A description of prescription drug abuse would be the use of prescribed medication but not in the way that it
Fear of coming off medication One of the main reasons people with a prescription drug addiction delay in getting help is because they have been
GPs are now rarely responsible for someone becoming addicted to prescription drugs GPs are far more diligent these days than they were even a few
How and why addiction to prescription drugs occurs One of the issues with people taking prescription drugs is the mental concept that they must be
Can prescriptions be renewed over a long period of time? Surprisingly, not that long ago, prescriptions that were initially administered by GPs were able to
If the name of a medication ends with the letters PAM, this indicates two things. Firstly, it had a licence to be manufactured some considerable
Diazepam Addiction seems to be a growing problem Working in a rehab addiction treatment centre, I have become aware recently of more people than at
Diazepam is an extremely addictive prescription medication that should only be used for a brief period of time.
There are many people in the UK who are, in my opinion, taking too many prescription medications. This could be for a number of reasons
In the past there was a limit to the substances that could have been abused or experimented with. During the so called ‘hippy’ era marijuana
Benzodiazepine is a psychoactive drug, pharmacologically used to treat anxiety, insomnia, alcohol withdrawals and seizures. This is due to its sedative, sleep inducing and anti-anxiety
Prescription medications In the beginning of Alcoholics Anonymous people were rife with addiction to prescription medications. There was little divergence for the early members between
Drug addiction has been around for a very long time. From opium in the seventeenth century in China to cocaine leaves grown in the foothills
What is methamphetamine? N-methyl-1-phenyl-propan-2-amine, also referred to as methamphetamine, methylamphetamine, or desoxyephedrine, commonly recognised as ‘meth’. In crystalline form, the chemical called crystal meth. Commonly
Why meth? Methamphetamine is an artificial stimulant which has comparable effects to cocaine. However, with methamphetamine, the effects last much longer. One can find methamphetamine
Prescription sleeping pills are a common treatment by doctors for poor sleep (insomnia). However it is very easy to become addicted to sleeping tablets. They
