One topic that I will hit on a lot will be Addiction. My opening to it is more of a personal reflection versus a scientific approach but when it comes down to everything, it can be just as important.
Through scientific advances along with everything else, drugs both legal and illegal fuel our world. The purpose of medications is supposed to be therapeutic, to help, to cure, and to heal. Unfortunately, no matter what we can create, there will always be something negative to it. Not one drug is alike. Not one drug is absorbed the same way in each and every person. Everyone is different and so is everyone chemical breakdowns.
Through my years of working in the industry, I have come across many unexpected "medications" that you would see being serviced from a hospital facility. People put themselves in positions where they either become addicted or they become unable to live without things.
I was given an order once to deliver beer to a patient. Yes, I said beer. It was a regular Budweiser and yes it was prescribed. There was a lot going on with this patient, but the biggest thing was that they were ordered to maintain a beer daily as part as their therapeutic plan. Sounds crazy, looks crazy, but it was something that was needed to be included to maintain that patient care.
Alcohol abuse is mostly just looked at as a disease because it is. Mental and physically your body become dependent on a substance that has been consumed so much and at so long of a rate, it could kill you if you stop. It kill you if you don't.
Illegal drugs are no different. Unfortunately the gateway to most illegal substance abuse is through prior therapeutic medication use. People become depressed or overly stressed and the anti-anxiety medications either are not working quick enough or that the patient just doesn't feel the immediate results needed. There is were Marijuana comes into play. Yes one state does have legal contract to prescribe this for therapy and when used appropriately the side effects and the therapeutic benefits are amazing for a patient. With the good, you will always have a bad view though. Marijuana is addictive and has a high probable rate of abuse that is seen up to 75 percent of its legal and illegal users. That is the main reason why it is illegal everywhere else because of that reason.
A pill or any form of drug isn't meant to fix your whole entire world. Its to guide you back to your normal state. Just because you have a headache, doesn't mean you need Advil or Tylenol every single time you have one. When any medication is taken in succession, they don't work as well and/or your body becomes in need of it to function or your body shuts down because of it.
Taking any drug: Legal, illegal, prescribed, and over the counter has potential to either help you or harm you.....or do both. I personally chose to work and to study pharmacology for more personal reasons. I've had to study a lot more because of hearing new stories and seeing how medications can heal and harm. I've seen people think their whole is dependent on a pill or a drug. That isn't the purpose of medications.
It is still used today, but not very often and that is Cocaine. FDA has guidelines in accordance with Micro-medics that it is to be used as a local anesthesia. I'm not talking though about the powder that people are seen using I guess on the streets. They use a Topical Solution and ALWAYS use the lowest dose possible for administration. Its still terrifying though. Such a powerful drug with a high range of toxicity. Its scary. We think we are making medical marvels but sometimes is it that? Are we making a better longer future or finding new ways to break us apart?
It all comes down to the patient and the doctor. Doctor monitors patient. Patient talks to doctor. Patient talks to Pharmacist. Pharmacist talks to Doctor. Everyone is involved. Medicine can heal if you use it right. When you use it wrong you could end up trapped in a life of addiction. Most people don't win that battle of addiction anymore. That is the scariest part.
Through scientific advances along with everything else, drugs both legal and illegal fuel our world. The purpose of medications is supposed to be therapeutic, to help, to cure, and to heal. Unfortunately, no matter what we can create, there will always be something negative to it. Not one drug is alike. Not one drug is absorbed the same way in each and every person. Everyone is different and so is everyone chemical breakdowns.
Through my years of working in the industry, I have come across many unexpected "medications" that you would see being serviced from a hospital facility. People put themselves in positions where they either become addicted or they become unable to live without things.
I was given an order once to deliver beer to a patient. Yes, I said beer. It was a regular Budweiser and yes it was prescribed. There was a lot going on with this patient, but the biggest thing was that they were ordered to maintain a beer daily as part as their therapeutic plan. Sounds crazy, looks crazy, but it was something that was needed to be included to maintain that patient care.
Alcohol abuse is mostly just looked at as a disease because it is. Mental and physically your body become dependent on a substance that has been consumed so much and at so long of a rate, it could kill you if you stop. It kill you if you don't.
Illegal drugs are no different. Unfortunately the gateway to most illegal substance abuse is through prior therapeutic medication use. People become depressed or overly stressed and the anti-anxiety medications either are not working quick enough or that the patient just doesn't feel the immediate results needed. There is were Marijuana comes into play. Yes one state does have legal contract to prescribe this for therapy and when used appropriately the side effects and the therapeutic benefits are amazing for a patient. With the good, you will always have a bad view though. Marijuana is addictive and has a high probable rate of abuse that is seen up to 75 percent of its legal and illegal users. That is the main reason why it is illegal everywhere else because of that reason.
A pill or any form of drug isn't meant to fix your whole entire world. Its to guide you back to your normal state. Just because you have a headache, doesn't mean you need Advil or Tylenol every single time you have one. When any medication is taken in succession, they don't work as well and/or your body becomes in need of it to function or your body shuts down because of it.
Taking any drug: Legal, illegal, prescribed, and over the counter has potential to either help you or harm you.....or do both. I personally chose to work and to study pharmacology for more personal reasons. I've had to study a lot more because of hearing new stories and seeing how medications can heal and harm. I've seen people think their whole is dependent on a pill or a drug. That isn't the purpose of medications.
It is still used today, but not very often and that is Cocaine. FDA has guidelines in accordance with Micro-medics that it is to be used as a local anesthesia. I'm not talking though about the powder that people are seen using I guess on the streets. They use a Topical Solution and ALWAYS use the lowest dose possible for administration. Its still terrifying though. Such a powerful drug with a high range of toxicity. Its scary. We think we are making medical marvels but sometimes is it that? Are we making a better longer future or finding new ways to break us apart?
It all comes down to the patient and the doctor. Doctor monitors patient. Patient talks to doctor. Patient talks to Pharmacist. Pharmacist talks to Doctor. Everyone is involved. Medicine can heal if you use it right. When you use it wrong you could end up trapped in a life of addiction. Most people don't win that battle of addiction anymore. That is the scariest part.
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