Prescription Drugs

Parents must be wary that even prescription drugs may be abused by your troubled teenagers. Kinds of prescription drugs such as types of painkillers, central nervous system depressants,opioids, and stimulants can be abused by your teen to even interfere with his/her brain’s normal functioning and cause dependence or ultimately addiction × Addiction
The American Society of Addiction Medicine defines addiction as "Addiction is characterized by inability to consistently abstain, impairment in behavioral control, craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with one’s behaviors and interpersonal relationships, and a dysfunctional emotional response." Similar to other chronic diseases, addiction may involve cycles of relapse and a mental state of remission. If untreated, or serious attempts of recovery, the progression of addiction can easily result in dire, sometimes fatal, consequences. Addiction can take many forms, from eating disorders to drug addiction and even gambling. Whatever the affliction, or choice of addiction, the teenage psyche and overall well being is at greater risk than that of a fully developed adult. Teens who don't receive adequate rehabilitation for their addiction are almost certain to carry their addictive qualities into adulthood. Parents of a teenage boy or girl suffering from addiction should seek viable treatment options immediately before the addiction progresses further.
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The use of prescription drugs for purposes other than the medical ones they were prescribed for can be severely detrimental to one’s health, teenager or not, what more to an adolescent who’s body is still growing and developing.

Development of awareness

Apart from other drugs which are more popularly abused by teenagers such as marijuana or ecstasy, prescription drugs may lie in the shadows. But despite this, the abuse × Abuse
Abuse /a·buse/ Abuse is defined as the improper usage or treatment of an entity, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, assault, violation, rape, unjust practices: crimes or other types of aggression. Abuse is a negative and real threat that many people face. Child abuse is a problem that is continually occurring. The main types of child abuse are physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglecting. When these types of abuse occur in a home, they often go unnoticed. The stress and fear of the abuse will usually cause the victim to remain quite about the problem. It is a difficult problem to find out and assess, but there are solutions. It is important that people are aware of signs of abuse. They may include unexplained injuries, changes in behavior, fear of going home, changes in eating and sleeping and lack of personal care or hygiene.
of these kinds of drugs continues. What’s important then is that further awareness is developed.

Contrary to what may seem, the abuse of prescription drugs isn’t an issue that is hot off the stands. It has been here for a while. But it requires more notice.

A parent had no idea that her daughter, who suffered from appendicitis, received an injection of a strong painkiller to help relieve the effects of anesthesia as she lay in the recovery room after a routine appendectomy. When her daughter had returned to the hospital room, she complained of severe pain and requested for another injection. By the third time she asked for an injection the nurses were hesitant to inform the doctor again, because they were familiar with many patients × Patients
A patient is a person who receives some type of treatment or medical care. The type of treatment or medical care a patient receives depends upon what type of ailments or conditions the individual patient is suffering from. When pertaining to troubled adolescents, patients may be teens who struggle with ailments such as, personality and/or behavioral disorders, drug addictions or need some other type of treatment to regain their foothold in life. The type of treatment programs that assist troubled teen patients are prevalent and come in many, different forms. These types of programs include but is not limited to, boarding schools for troubled teens, wilderness therapy, residential treatment, rehabs, group homes and transitional living programs. Teens who are viewed as patients at their chosen program, are also treated or viewed as patients. Teens are given treatments, medication and rehabilitation much like patients at a hospital who medically require attention.
, including elderly ones that would abuse the particular painkiller. Later on when her mother questioned her hankering for the painkiller, the daughter described its effects to be calming, “like everything felt right in the world.” After she was permitted to return home, the mother found it peculiar that a month later she was still mentioning the pleasant effects of the drug. This is an example of just how abuse of a prescription drug may get started. In fact, the mother discovered that the particular painkiller did have addicting effects with prolonged use.

Certain types of laxatives or diuretics have also been known to be abused by teenagers struggling with eating disorders such as bulimia nervosa or even anorexia. Abuse of these kinds of medical drugs can lead to dehydration as well a dependency which can make it very difficult for the afflicted to release bowels on one’s own. They may mess up a teenager’s natural bodily system.