What is meant by prescription drug abuse?
• What kinds of drugs are used for non-medical or recreational purposes? • Why are we seeing an upward trend towards prescription drug abuse instead of conventional ones like heroine? • Can over-the-counter drugs be harmful? We don’t need a prescription to purchase them after all. • What is GHB? • What are Club Drugs? • Are Club Drugs lethal when taken with alcohol? • Why do people use GHB? Why is it so popular? • What is LSD? • What are the effects of GHB? • What are the symptoms of a Dexedrine overdose? • What is Ketamine? • What are the effects of Ketamine? • I have heard that ketamine abusers frequently turn into paranoids. Is it true? How is it possible? • What is Mexican Valium? • What are the effects of Rohypnol? • What precautions should be taken for heart patients with a known case history of drug abuse? • What are the common side effects of Ketamine? • What is Dextroamphetamine? • What is amnesia? How is it caused? • What is Ambien? What is it used for? • What sort of effects
The term prescription drug abuse usually refers to any misuse or non-medical use of a controlled psychotropic pharmaceutical drug, that is, the use of pharmaceutical drugs with centrally acting reinforcing properties that is associated with increased risk for harm, as characterized by obtaining drugs from illegitimate sources, or risky patterns of use, that deviate from accepted medical practice and/or scientific knowledge, or taking the drugs for purposes which are not therapeutic.
