A medicine which is basically a pain killer, developed to trat medium and severe pain, was developed in Germany in the year 1916, it has excessive side effects hence never used without prescriptions.
Sometimes it can also be used to treat diarrhea, diabetic neuropathy, post herpetic neuralgia, unilateral total knee arthroplasty, osteoarthritis, ambulatory laparoscopic tubal ligation surgery and abdominal or gynecological surgery, only the dosage changes with the severity of the disease.
This is just one side of the coin, the darker side says that this drug is habit forming, it alter the human brain so that they get an addiction to Oxycontin, your mind starts relying on more and more on this medicine and you develop a carving for this drug.
This high alert drug comes in the form of tablets which when broken, chewed or crushed causes a great amount of oxycodone to be released, that results in a drug overdose that can be harmful, also if it is clubbed with alcohol and some interacting drugs then it might also be a cause of death.
Addiction to Oxycontin can lead to a several side effects like: severe breathing problems, Euphoria, loss of memory, nausea, loss of vision, Insomnia, diaphoresis, pruritus, it can even lead to impotence
Another drug which is generally used for relaxation is Ambien. A drug used to treat insomnia, is normally prescribed to people who suffer from a lot of stress and loss of sleep. Slowly people get used to this relaxed feeling and few develop an Ambien addiction.
A very normal drug could become fatal if an overdose of it is taken there are several reasons why people generally develop an Ambien addiction. A stress due to your job, or family due to high responsibilities and heavy load needs a medicine to calm down, an Ambien provides the necessary soothing effect. Money problems can be a very common reason to ambien addiction or many a times if there is a family history of drugs like this, you naturally develop a craving to such relaxing drugs which then turn into an addiction.
Any drug is useful only in a limit, excess of anything is hazardous, be it an addiction to Oxycontin or an Ambien addiction, these drugs are developed to help you cure your problems and should be for that only, if you make it a habit an develop an addiction it could be a reason for loss of your precious life.
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