Prescription drug abuse is out-ranking all other forms of drug abuse. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, non-medical use of prescription drug abuse, age 12 and older, mainly starts by someone obtaining prescription drugs from a friend or relative.
The broad availability of prescription drugs from free samples given out by doctors or left-over prescriptions, that then end up in medicine cabinets or given to friends, are the obvious causes of such findings. Suncoast Rehabilitation Center, a residential substance abuse treatment facility, reports that its drug rehab facility has a continually rising percentage of drug addicts that are withdrawing from prescription drugs.
The real dangers of prescription drugs are often minimized. The fact that these drugs are "safety sealed" in a sterile bottle in no way makes them safe. Alarmingly, the number of side effects for any single drug can number in the hundreds. Despite the disclaimers in advertising to "ask your doctor" and hurried detailing of the side effects, a real understanding is missed by most people on the dangers of prescription drugs.
Suncoast Rehabilitation Center provides drug rehabilitation to adults of all ages and an essential part of the SRC program includes a complete physical detoxification of drug & toxins which result in a person having overcome the physical effects of drugs so he/she can live a drug-free, happy and successful life without the constant battle of “fighting” addiction and relapse.
Just about every illegal drug was first a medically prescribed drug. From opium to heroin to morphine to methamphetamine to PCP, and on and on, the common denominator of drugs is that they are basically poisons.
Those falling victim to the prescription drug epidemic become increasingly addicted and controlled by the drug and, like illicit drug abusers, can end up losing their jobs, their kids, their relationships with family and friends.
Over the past year, 85% of the clients treated at Suncoast Rehabilitation Center have been prescription drug abusers. We have helped them to overcome their addiction and get their lives back on track which includes reuniting families. Here is what one client had to say after successfully completing the New Life Detoxification Program delivered at SRC; “Today is my final day of my program journey! Where do I begin??!! I came here completely unfocused, unmotivated, mentally & physically unstable with no desire for life. I’m leaving here today with a second chance at life: a new beginning. Before the New Life Detoxification Program at SRC I never set a goal in life and accomplished it – now today and everyday I’m confident and successful with my daily goal setting. I feel great mentally every day. I wake up genuinely happy with lots of energy. Physically, I’ve overcome my Restless Leg Syndrome and my hands don’t shake at all (as before I shook so much I couldn’t even feed my kids without spilling it all over). I truly feel the New Life Detoxification Program has also overcome my shortness of breath. I could never run 5 minutes straight or even walk up a flight of stairs without being out of breath. Today is my 10th day of running for 30 minutes straight with no break. The program has given me numerous positive changes in my life. Words can’t explain my thanks to SRC – you saved my life. SRC has helped me – a forever friend you will be.”
Suncoast Rehabilitation Center provides safe, effective drug rehabilitation without the use of substitute drugs. Methods have been developed to permanently and fully rehabilitate someone from drug abuse. When someone has fallen into the trap of prescription drug addiction, there is a way out that breaks the cycle of drug abuse.
If you or someone you know needs help with their addiction, please contact Suncoast Rehabilitation Center at (800) 511-9403 or through our website at www.suncoastrehabcenter.com.
