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Prescription Drug Abuse Symptoms

Thursday, February 26, 2009
Related Tags: prescription | abuser | abuse | polydrug | drugs
 

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Lingering Injury or Illness

  • Step 1:
    A person with a prescription drug abuse problem might claim falsely that he is having trouble healing from the injury or illness to continue having access to the prescription drug.

Seeing Several Doctors

  • Step 1:
    To continue having access to the medication, the prescription drug abuser might visit several doctors in several practices (particularly urgent cares) to obtain more prescriptions for the drug.

Ill Temper

  • Step 1:
    As the prescription drug abuser runs out of the prescription drug and craves more, she might become ill-tempered. She might react irrationally toward normal situations in her life.

Stealing Other Medications

  • Step 1:
    Without access to more of the prescription drug, the drug abuser might begin stealing the prescription or over the counter drugs equivalent belonging to family and friends.

Drinking Alcohol

  • Step 1:
    Depending upon the type of prescription drug being abused, the drug abuser might drink more alcohol to counteract the effects of the prescription drug (see Resources below).

Sleeping Changes

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    Some prescription drugs might make the drug abuser sleepy while others inhibit the ability to sleep. A change in sleep patterns such as sleeping too much or not enough is a symptom of prescription drug abuse.

Resources

Photo/Video Credit

Faith Allen

Prescription Drug Abuse Symptoms Provided by eHow.com
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