Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health just recently did a study and found that individuals suffering from mood and anxiety disorders such as bipolar, panic disorder and major depressive disorder may be more likely to abuse opioid. In this study they found that mood and anxiety disorders are highly associated with non-medical prescription Opioid use.
The way that chronic pain was being treated is with prescriptions opiods like Oxycontin. It has been noted that non-medical use of prescription opiods has increased. The Substance Abuse and mental health Services Administration is reporting that prescription opiods are the second most frequently used illegal drug in the United States. The first is marijuana. Prescription opiods can produce neurological changes and physiological dependence when they are used on a long term basis. For this study the researchers looked at the association between individuals with mood and anxiety disorders with non-medical prescription opioid use and opioid disorder.
Inpatient rehabs in Louisiana can provide care for prescription drug abusers in Louisiana, for instance, but only if they are willing to seek treatment. Baton Rouge, Louisiana inpatient drug rehabs report that drug abusers are often in a state of denial, and this can be the case particularly with prescription drug abusers.
Non-medical prescription is meant that these drugs are not actually prescribed for the patient but the patient is getting them from other sources. Now they are calling this non-medical prescription opiods use and opiods disorder. Carla Storr, ScD, author of the study and an adjunct professor with the Bloomberg School’s Department of Mental Health stated, “With the current increased use of non-medical prescription drugs, especially among adolescents, the association with future psychopathology is of great concern. Using Opiods, or even withdrawal from opioids, might precipitate anxiety disorders, suggesting that there is a subgroup of people who are vulnerable to future development of anxiety disorders”. People who use prescription opioids need to be closely monitored. There may be a possibility that they engage in non-medical use of an opioid.
Opioid abusers would do best to contact a drug rehab referral service or a drug rehab in their area.
