How Does Prescription Drug Addiction Happen?
For many people in Sarasota County, prescription drug addiction happens quite by accident. You get the pills from your doctor to relieve pain or emotional upset and you suddenly find you can’t do without the drugs. You try to stop taking them, you know you’ve been taking them for quite a while – maybe longer than you intended – and you just don’t feel right about it. When you try to stop taking them, when you decide you’re just not going to take one today, you find yourself jittery or upset, or sometimes in pain, and decide that just one more won’t hurt. That you’ll deal with it later. But, somehow, ‘later’ never comes. Next thing you know, you’ve been taking them for months – maybe years. And they’ve just become part of your ‘medication.’ Just like the pills you take to lower your cholesterol or your blood pressure. The problem is the drugs we’re talking about highly addictive. They are hurting you, they might shorten your life, and, worse, they might kill you. Find out today if you h
