RX Nation: Prescription Drug Abuse in Vancouver, British Columbia And Teenagers by Options Okanagan Treatment Center in Kelowna, British Columbia treating Painkiller addiction and recovery.
According to Canadian and US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, almost one out of every five teens have used a prescription drug in order to get high. In Vancouver, BC at least one out of ten seniors in high school have abused prescription drugs in the last year. Sadly, these teens believe that these prescription drugs are much safer than street drugs. They think that since they can readily find them at the pharmacy or in their own medicine cabinets that they are much safer, however, many of these drugs are even stronger than heroin or cocaine. This is where teens are getting into trouble.
No one wants their kids to become drug addicts. Sadly in Vancouver, teens are very unlikely to comprehend how addictive prescription drugs can be. They believe that if it can be purchased over the counter that it must be okay to take. If this is your kid, you, and your kids, need some help.
Painkillers Can Cause More Pain
Opioid painkillers in Vancouver are to blame for more overdoses than both cocaine and heroin. Even more shocking, is that in the last few years, these fatal overdoses have increased between 15 to 24 year olds by 320 percent. Legal prescription drugs can be unpredictable. A lot of these medications can begin to work slowly and then suddenly accelerate. They may linger for a time in the system and if a teen takes a large dose they may suddenly be at an overdose level due to the amounts that have remained in their blood stream. Or, the medication may suddenly stop working and they may not feel the high so they take more and more expecting it to work, but it doesn’t.
Such painkillers as OxyContin and even Vicodin can slow the heart rate. They can slow the breathing and the wrong combination may even stop the heart or the breathing entirely. Worse, the person may never even realize this is happening. If they decide to drink alcohol along with the drugs, they may fall into a coma and die.
Apathy To Action
There are many reasons that teens use drugs. They may want to feel cool, they may succumb to peer pressure. They may be bored, stressed or suffer from a mental health issue. Lack of parental supervision may also be a contributing factor.
Here are some ways to help teens today prevent drug addiction:
Keep an inventory of the medicine in the household. Monitor the contents of the pill bottles and if any are missing make a note of it.
Spend plenty of time with kids and teens and talk to them about drugs and how they can affect their minds. Listen and answer their questions openly and honestly. Don’t scold.
Options Okanagan helps teens with drug addiction. It can provide interventions, rehabilitation and recovery. They can help to monitor medications that teens do need to take. Their intensive program helps teens to find their true identity and lean toward a better lifestyle.
Your children can count on you to help them when danger is lurking. Give us a call today and let us help you protect them from drug abuse.
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551 Sherrydale Crescent, Kelowna, British Columbia, V1V 2E6
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