Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is often associated with anxiety and depressive disorders. The consumption of alcohol can both exasperate mental health disorders and cause them to occur. The effects of alcohol on a person’s mental health may be long-lasting even when consumption has stopped. Someone diagnosed...
What are the long term consequences of prescription Opioids? There is a class of drug substances known as opioids or opiates. Included in this class are heroine and prescription painkillers like, codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone (e.g., Vicodin), oxycodone (e.g., OxyContin, Percocet), and morphine. Opiates originally derive from...
Prescription drug abuse during Covid 19 pandemic is on the rise and becoming a major public health problem. According to national surveys, approximately 52 million people have engaged in non-medical use of prescription drugs at some point in their lifetimes. In fact, certain prescription drugs...
Benzodiazepine addiction treatment can be difficult and many addicts are reluctant to consider it, in spite of short and long term side effects of the drug they experience. They are afraid of coping with their anxiety or other mental disorders without benzodiazepines and they have...
It is easy to understand that Benzodiazepine addiction is more common in people with some types of anxiety disorders, mood disorders or sleep disorders. Benzos are often prescribed for such disorders and most users find them helpful and effective. Unfortunately, tolerance to the drug develops...
When the use of opioids such as Vicodin and OxyContin soared in the 2000s, the use of benzos such as Ativan, Xanax and Klonopin increased as well. Opioid users figured out that they can get much better ‘high’ if mixing together with tranquilizers. From 2006...
It is fairly easy to get addicted to a drug that makes you feel so much better very fast when you are going through periods of anxiety or having a panic attack. Little by little, you reach for the pill even before your symptoms really...
Long-term use of benzodiazepines are not recommended and can cause severe physical and psychological effects. Addiction or physical dependence, tolerance and withdrawal symptoms are the most serious. Older people are at particularly high risk for adverse effects of prolonged use of benzos, including 50 percent increased...
Benzodiazepines are psychoactive drugs, a class of drugs used to replace barbiturates for insomnia, anxiety and seizures. They have hypnotic (sleep-inducing), sedative, anti-anxiety, muscle relaxant and anticonvulsant properties. They are some of the most prescribed medications in the States, particularly among older people. These specific drugs...
Both experts and former alcoholics say that there is no cure for alcoholism. It is true that the long-term effects on the body and brain are serious, but it is possible to stop drinking and return to normal life. The goal of treatment is to...