Prescription painkillers

[CigaalSHiiDaaDCFC]

how do ppl get addicted to painkillers? why cant they just stop once they feel better? they saying more people are dying from painkillers than heroin and cocaine smh. have any of you been addicted to any kind of prescriptions drugs?

[Tuushi]

I think u should read more about it,.It is actually very interesting.Pain receptors in the brain and whatnot.People get addicted because those drugs are highly addictive and the withdrawal from them are pure torture depending on use/abuse.

[SuldaanMaplesyrup]

Tuushi is right.

Most painkillers are opioids, which are a class of drugs that also include heroin & fentanyl. The reason why people often get addicted to opioids is because constant exposure to the drug causes changes in the brain that lead to dependence. In the brain, there are receptors that bind to opioid molecules that signal the suppression of the release of a neurotransmitter called noradrenaline from the axon terminals of neurons. To offset the exposure of opioids, neurons increase their activity so that the amount of noradrenaline released is of normal amounts. When people who are constantly using opioids stop using them, their neurons are still more active than normal so there's even more noradrenaline released, in which people feel extremely jittery and feel absolutely terrible. This is the withdrawal symptoms.

This is why doctors who prescribe painkillers that include opioids, like morphine and oxycodone, have to be extremely careful that their patients do not develop a dependence to these drugs.

[CigaalSHiiDaaDCFC]

I think u should read more about it,.It is actually very interesting.Pain receptors in the brain and whatnot.People get addicted because those drugs are highly addictive and the withdrawal from them are pure torture depending on use/abuse.

Tuushi is right.

Most painkillers are opioids, which are a class of drugs that also include heroin & fentanyl. The reason why people often get addicted to opioids is because constant exposure to the drug causes changes in the brain that lead to dependence. In the brain, there are receptors that bind to opioid molecules that signal the suppression of the release of a neurotransmitter called noradrenaline from the axon terminals of neurons. To offset the exposure of opioids, neurons increase their activity so that the amount of noradrenaline released is of normal amounts. When people who are constantly using opioids stop using them, their neurons are still more active than normal so there's even more noradrenaline released, in which people feel extremely jittery and feel absolutely terrible. This is the withdrawal symptoms.

This is why doctors who prescribe painkillers that include opioids, like morphine and oxycodone, have to be extremely careful that their patients do not develop a dependence to these drugs.

interesting ... but i still think most ppl get addicted to them because they abuse them. there are many ppl who take those medications and dnt get addicted to them .. personal responsibility yakhii

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How do people even get addicted to painkillers

[SuldaanMaplesyrup]

I think u should read more about it,.It is actually very interesting.Pain receptors in the brain and whatnot.People get addicted because those drugs are highly addictive and the withdrawal from them are pure torture depending on use/abuse.

Tuushi is right.

Most painkillers are opioids, which are a class of drugs that also include heroin & fentanyl. The reason why people often get addicted to opioids is because constant exposure to the drug causes changes in the brain that lead to dependence. In the brain, there are receptors that bind to opioid molecules that signal the suppression of the release of a neurotransmitter called noradrenaline from the axon terminals of neurons. To offset the exposure of opioids, neurons increase their activity so that the amount of noradrenaline released is of normal amounts. When people who are constantly using opioids stop using them, their neurons are still more active than normal so there's even more noradrenaline released, in which people feel extremely jittery and feel absolutely terrible. This is the withdrawal symptoms.

This is why doctors who prescribe painkillers that include opioids, like morphine and oxycodone, have to be extremely careful that their patients do not develop a dependence to these drugs.

interesting ... but i still think most ppl get addicted to them because they abuse them. there are many ppl who take those medications and dnt get addicted to them .. personal responsibility yakhii

Not all medications work the same, stronger medications are more susceptible to abuse, leading to addiction.

[Tuushi]

Cigaal.Majority of people who get hooked on prescription painkillers didnt start taking them to abuse/get high.Most with a prescription with very small quantity of a specific narcotic,usually after a surgery etc.What happens during that period is what changes everything.

The gist is:why be in pain when u dont have to be.They will end up refilling that prescription from their doctor and since pain cannot be quantified,no one can say u r not in pain if you say you are in pain.We live in a world where we want and almost have a pill for everything you feel.why feel when you can numb it?

In Canada,we have huge problem but it is getting better and worse at the same time.

[CigaalSHiiDaaDCFC]

Cigaal.Majority of people who get hooked on prescription painkillers didnt start taking them to abuse/get high.Most with a prescription with very small quantity of a specific narcotic,usually after a surgery etc.What happens during that period is what changes everything.

The gist is:why be in pain when u dont have to be.They will end up refilling that prescription from their doctor and since pain cannot be quantified,no one can say u r not in pain if you say you are in pain.We live in a world where we want and almost have a pill for everything you feel.why feel when you can numb it?

In Canada,we have huge problem but it is getting better and worse at the same time.

Docs should stop prescribing painkillers all willy nilly unless its absolutely necessariy like after surgery or big injuries but some of those addicts started taking them for headache ff sake!

[Tuushi]

Cigaal.Majority of people who get hooked on prescription painkillers didnt start taking them to abuse/get high.Most with a prescription with very small quantity of a specific narcotic,usually after a surgery etc.What happens during that period is what changes everything.

The gist is:why be in pain when u dont have to be.They will end up refilling that prescription from their doctor and since pain cannot be quantified,no one can say u r not in pain if you say you are in pain.We live in a world where we want and almost have a pill for everything you feel.why feel when you can numb it?

In Canada,we have huge problem but it is getting better and worse at the same time.

Docs should stop prescribing painkillers all willy nilly unless its absolutely necessary like after surgery or big injuries but some of those addicts started taking them for headache ff sake!

It is much more complicated than that.Majority of the people started on them because of surgeries and severe injuries.