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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Well, the main problem is that the MD prescribed the medication for a particular problem in a specific dosage for a specific time frame. The people abusing these drugs are taking them in unsafe dosages over long periods of time often with alcohol which leads to addiction. The medications are fine AS PRESCRIBED for the person for which it was prescribed.
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My experience with people my age and younger is that they generally take medication that has never been prescribed for them at all and that they don't do it over a long period of time, but they DO tend to do it and then drink. It's usually Klonopin, Xanax, Adderrall, or Loratab, none of which should be mixed with alcohol. It's gotten to the point with one group of friends that a couple of us have just stopped hanging out with them. They'll pop a couple of Klonopin and then have a "wine night"...needless to say not only is it incredibly unsafe it also makes them impossible to be around.
At one point during my college career I had to hide some of my medication because there was someone who would take a couple here and there thinking I wouldn't notice. We never could nail down with certainty who it was (shared living situation with people constantly dropping by to visit myself and roommates, no locks on the bedroom doors), but it bothered me someone was that desperate for it. It happened three or four times before I hid it all.
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