Mental Health Promotion: Preventing Prescription Drug Abuse

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Running head: MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION
Mental Health Promotion
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Introduction
If prescriptions drugs get used for emotional issues, without the supervision of a doctor,
the main aftereffect of the pharmaceuticals will be to conceal the irritated emotions or numb the
feelings. Even though a man does not experience the ill effects of depression for a timeframe or
the individual can't incidentally stop the fixation on a particular issue. Once the individual has
not figured out how to take care of the issue successfully, it can lead to extreme emotions and
problems readily available. The mishandling of drugs more often than not negatively affects
individual work issues and loss of business, budgetary, law breaking, and mental issues. The
nurses have a vital role to play in mental health problem. They make sure that the initiatives are
well utilized. Many programs are being rolled out in Australia. The plans are to help and support
those that are addicted to reduce the use of prescribed drugs and leave a healthy life without
causing harm to the patients in the process.
Substance abuse and addiction to prescription drugs are medical conditions that require
treatment for addictions with the aid of chemical health specialists. Decreasing the utilization of
specific prescriptions can prompt specific medical intricacies, including demise. The allocation
of prescription drugs ought not to be endeavored at home or without the counsel and supervision
of a doctor. If someone or a relative is concerned, they may encounter withdrawal symptoms
identified with prescription drugs (Baicker, Allen, Wright, & Finkelstein, 2017). Prescription
drugs are more controlled than un-prescribed medications that can be purchased without a
prescription or the advice from the doctor (Compton, Jones, & Baldwin, 2016). As a rule, just an
authorized doctor, dental practitioner, optometrist or veterinarian can give a prescription for the
drugs to be used by the patient a request. According to Baicker (2017) nurses, medical
associates, anesthetists and birthing assistants, paramedics, therapists, and social specialists, for

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instance, don't have the ability to prescribe drugs. The vast majority take medicine since
specialists endorse it. In any case, a remarkable number of individuals are inclined to end up
addicted when they begin mishandling prescription drugs after a genuine prescription from their
specialist for whom they were assigned to help them operate. The medicine may have been as a
result of injury, chronic pain, depression or surgery.
The utilization of prescription drugs is spreading its roots over time. Drug accessibility is
likely one reason for the constant increase of the same problem (Godley, Passetti, Subramaniam,
Funk, Smith, & Meyers, 2017). Specialists prescribe more medicines to have more health issues
handled. The developing number of online drug stores can make it less demanding to get
prescription drugs thus people buy them and use as they wish.
Risk Factors
Numerous individuals fear to be addicted to drugs prescribed for medical purposes, for
example, the painkillers drugs after surgery. Be that as it may, individuals who utilize
conceivably addictive drugs, as specified, as a rule, don't mishandle or end up addicted. The
following are the things that contribute to the risk factors of the addictions of the prescribed
medicines (Han, et al., 2017). The previous addictions or the modern additions to the substances
such as tobacco and alcohol; the linkage to family abuse of substance from the historical
problems; the teens who are still young with the ages of about 20-30 years are the risk factors.
Lack of information and knowledge on the potential harm of the prescribed drugs; the ease of
access to the drugs from the shelves when in need of them; the specific conditions that exist from
the psychiatric conditions and peer pressure from an environment that uses substances and abuse
of drugs are the things that expose people to addiction (Townsend, & Morgan, 2017).

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The prescription can also take many forms and within different categories of people. The
old are also at the stake of getting addicted to the prescribed drugs over time, and this depends on
the uses that they make of the drugs. It is a problem that has grown over time in the older people,
especially when alcohol and drugs are combined. At the time that the people are becoming older,
they have different health problems which can make them addicted to the drugs due to the risk of
misusing the drugs (Townsend, & Morgan, 2017).
Complications
The complications of the addiction can result in some issues to the individuals who use
the drugs. The drugs can become hazardous when they are taken in large amounts, or when the
individual uses the medications alongside other substances such as alcohol and over the counter
drugs.
Medical consequences
Other complications that come along with the prescription drugs are: The stimulant is a
substance that activates the body making it become active and thus cause high temperatures in
the body, seizures, and tremors, high blood pressure, hallucinations, paranoia, and
aggressiveness. The other category of medical consequences is the opioids which if used in
excess causes a slowed breathing rate, low blood pressure, a coma or breathing to stop. The
worst-case scenario, in this case, is the death of the person if they take an overdose of the
prescribed drugs (Edward et al., 2017). Anti-anxiety and sedatives medications are associated
with the memory problems slowed breathing and low blood pressure. Taking the drugs in
quantities that are high could result in death or coma.
Physical dependence and addiction