drug abuse ... and potential toxicity
far we have talked about natural therapies, paying our attention to the "as cured" according to this perspective.
In this article I open a topic on which I know to stir a hornet's nest of objections.
Ben be if they serve to deepen and clarify ideas.
In the practice of working as a pharmacist you find in a few days of the abyss that separates one part theory, normal protocols on the use of drugs and the law on the sale of several categories of drugs, and across the practice concerning the respect for rules and supervision of medications.
The pharmacist should be the intermediate figure between the doctor and the patient, who may:
(1) provide further explanations
(2) help you choose the product in self-care
(3) limit and hamper the use Wrong is refusing to sell drugs without a prescription is refusing to sell them when the use is clearly wrong and dangerous. However
today that Italy is very Americanized in contrast to America ... today we are witnessing the most idiotic things by which transgress the law is considered a nice necklace and observing it is considered abuse of power and tax (I say Why are so often been apostrophised from certain customers who wanted an antibiotic for a sore throat or ulcer due to an occasional stomach ache) ... today I said, we need more attention from the "consumer" itself, as it is just protected by the system.
For example, a pharmacist who is a waste because it is rich given drug adverse effects, assessing risk and benefit, then if the same drug is sold at lower dose over the counter? The subject can buy instead of geffer Plasil or Pantoloc instead of pantoprazole and assume a higher dose to achieve the same result! Also
the-counter drugs are easily found everywhere, even online.
do not need to adhere to the theoretical principles and guidelines when they are constantly being changed up to provide guidance to encourage behaviors contrary to those reported recently.
Neither the pharmacist refuses to so easily sell a product, unless it is certain that its use did cause damage. Rightly, as the border between his view on the consequences of its actions (even ethical sense of responsibility) and the review score that sees limited their freedom of choice is very steep and thorny. For these reasons
situations: abuse voluntary, involuntary abuse, misuse, are a hundred times more common phenomenon that emerges from the amount of statistical data.
Many over the counter medicines, free sale, of which approximately 20% of the population abuses.
The common channels of information (allopathic medicine) for experts often point out the problems caused by this abuse by these people taking stimulant drugs for the purpose, for the most part these are people who use them at very high doses to achieve effects as drugs.
appearance, however, too often overlooked or neglected is unaware of the abuse carried out by adults and the elderly "normal".
(1) First I want to emphasize, without blaming anyone in particular but to report a bad habit in general, that it encourages this abuse when physicians prescribe unnecessary drugs or at least unnecessary. The consequence of an experience of relief by the patient, makes the latter autoprescriversi the drug that has already taken to try, for just as many petty reasons.
Why not go to the doctor and ask?
Simple, because every time we go to the doctor without an appointment are waiting in line for about 2 hours on average and the lifestyle imposed on us by this company, we can not afford to stay in a room of 2 hours' waiting for a sign that we feel we can treat as we had already indicated last year!
So the health system is structured so profoundly wrong, a way that at the end of a whole chain of cause and effect, is more expensive than savings.
In my opinion it would be one doctor per 200 people, while today we think in terms of average of one doctor per 2000.
(2) Another feature lies in the official protocols on the use of common drugs. For example, is prescribed regular paracetamol during pregnancy and puerperium, and is commonly defined as "lighter" than aspirin and NSAIDs are prescribed strong sedatives for cough. Until a month ago they were prescribed (a voice, to be purchased without prescription) mucolytics infants: which is now contraindicated for use up to two years unless strict prescription. They are usually prescribed osmotic laxatives and saline very strong, able to cause serious fluid and electrolyte imbalance in elderly patients with atonic constipation. Purgatives that until recently were employed only occasionally for special investigations such as colonoscopy or, as appropriate, ultrasound abdomen .... are now recommended for daily intake. The trouble with these purges have already happened, so that the free sale of approximately 10 years ago, went up for sale prescription not repeatable, however, continue to be sold on a simple verbal request. In fact, the recipe is now on sale without a sense decriminalized than 10 years ago:
a ministerial decree of 2008 allows the pharmacist to "special cases and situations of urgency" to deliver even without prescription drugs that require, as long as the pharmacist Use a separate sheet stating that he sold without prescription because at that time constituted a situation of "urgency".
In particular, the sale without prescription is permitted provided:
(1) should ensure the continuation of a treatment for chronic disease (diabetes, hypertension, asthma) or antibiotic treatment already started
(2) in case of accidental breakage a bottle, so the recipe has been used and withdrawn from another pharmacy.
(3) can be a valid element for the delivery of medicine also direct knowledge by the pharmacist of the health status of the patient and ongoing treatment.
On the last point it is obvious that I am okay. On the first
I have two large reserves. It 'just what many customers say they want to take the drug because the chronically ill, but this occasional delivery we arrive easily to the normal delivery without prescription with overlap of free sale of other products causing toxic reactions possibly due to the incompatibility between drugs and all this because the subject has left the doctor's supervision.
Even worse is the case for those starting an antibiotic Erap "his own thing 'for petty reasons, and now must have the new box to continue!
Sedative-hypnotics continue to be prescribed for daily use for years or forever in the elderly and some adults.
This is all perfectly legal and normal ... So why then
but wonder if some rare teenager seeking a more economical solution than the legal and illegal drugs and expensive to get the thrill of intoxication?
I think we do legally and with all authorities beneplacido big
abuse of drugs and junk food that cause two-thirds of existing chronic conditions, compared to which the use of stimulant laugh chickens!
E 'the same pattern of thought that condemns the thief but admire and venerate the tycoon who prey populations and devastates the environment.
Now that I have temporarily ended my sermon, step to list the toxic effects.
OTC
and addiction often is equated with substance abuse to dependence
: in fact, although undoubtedly related, the two phenomena have different characteristics.
to answer questions on the abuse of drugs
bench and their potential to cause addiction
, it is worth review some key definitions.
Addiction: The addiction can be defined as a neurobiological
disease, chronic, primary, whose
development and events are influenced by factors
environmental, genetic and psychosocial.
is characterized by at least one of the following behaviors:
little control in the use of drugs, compulsive use, continued use despite the appearance of
harmful side effects and imperious and insatiable desire
of a substance (craving).
The effects of addiction to drugs, including
the-counter, are:
(1) persistent sedation or intoxication
continuous recruitment;
(2) functional disorders and other medical complications;
(3) psychological manifestations such as irritability,
apathy, anxiety and depression;
(4) legal, economic and social.
Those addicted to certain drugs
difficult to stop taking it,
despite the appearance of complications that cause pain and suffering
. In case of abrupt withdrawal of medicines, it is possible that there withdrawal symptoms.
For now I'll stop here .... from time to time I will get back to talking about allopathic drugs just to give you an idea of \u200b\u200b"what you missed"
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