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PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
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Prescription Drugs
  • A drug is a substance meant for use in the
    diagnosis, remedy, mitigation, remedy, or
    prevention of disease. here are the main
    differences among OTC capsules and
    pharmaceuticals.
  • Is it viable that you or someone you adore is
    addicted to prescribed drugs? most folks take
    prescription drugs only for the reason the
    medical doctor meant. however, an envisioned 48
    million people (aged 12 and older), in step with
    the countrywide Institute on Drug Abuse, have
    used prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons of
    their lifetime.
  • That discern represents approximately 20 of the
    U.S. populace.

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  • In latest years, there has been a dramatic boom
    in prescription drug misuse or abuse. This growth
    has caused a corresponding boom in ER visits due
    to accidental overdoses in addition to admissions
    to drug remedy applications for drug addictions.

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Prescription drugs are
  • Prescribed by a Doctor
  • Bought at a pharmacy
  • Prescribed for and intended to be used by one
    person
  • Regulated by FDA through the New Drug Application
    (NDA) process.
  • that is the formal step a drug sponsor takes to
    ask that the FDA consider approving a brand new
    drug for advertising in the USA. An NDA includes
    all animal and human statistics and analyses of
    the records, as well as records about how the
    drug behaves inside the frame and the way it's
    far synthetic. For greater statistics on the NDA
    procedure.

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Which Prescription Drugs Are Commonly Abused?
  • In keeping with the countrywide Institute on Drug
    Abuse, the three training of pharmaceuticals 
  • which are frequently abused encompass
  • Opioids used to treat pain
  • Primary fearful machine (CNS) depressants, which
    includes benzodiazepines(Xanax, Valium, Ativan,
    Klonopin), used to deal with anxiety and sleep
    disorders
  • Stimulants, consisting of amphetamine and
    Dextroamphetamine (Adderall) or methylphenidate
    (Concerta, Daytrana, Methylin, Ritalin) used to
    deal with attention deficit disorder and
    narcolepsy (a sleep disorder).

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