It seems that most teenagers and young adults who have a history of painkiller abuse can turn to a more serious addiction - heroin addiction

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It seems that most teenagers and young adults who have a history of painkiller abuse can turn to a more serious addiction - heroin addiction

The problem of painkiller abuses the United States of America seems to be the least of concerns right now, as it seems that painkillers abuse usually leads to addiction.
Not only do painkillers lead to addictions, but it seems that the type of addiction is deadly, as we are talking here about the use of injected drugs such as heroin. As said, painkiller abuse has turned into a real problem for the United States of America and doctors are trying to fight abuse as hard as they can, but it seems that that should not be the only thing people should be worried about right now.
A group of researchers at the Drexel University’s School of Public Health found out that people who had a history of painkiller abuse and who had been taking prescription pills containing opioids had a very increased chance of turning to using the needle and become serious heroin addicts. The study they made was based on analyzing what these types of prescription pills do to young people who start using them and how that influences their turn to much powerful drugs such as heroin. “Participants were commonly raised in households where misuse of prescription drugs, illegal drugs, or alcohol, was normalized,” said Dr. Stephen Lankenau. Furthermore, is seems that the key towards this whole trouble is easy access to these types of painkillers.
Furthermore, it seems that this desire of trying opioids combined with a bad entourage and peer pressure was the main factor for which people started using more powerful drugs in the first place. Moreover, the researchers involved in the study also discovered two important things: one is the fact that 4 in 5 injected drug users turned to heroin only after being heavily addicted on prescription pills and the second thing is that 1 in 4 injected drug users used exactly opioids when they decided to inject the drugs for the first time. Researchers stated that heavy opioids use is growing to be a very strong concern for the people in the United States of America, as it can lead to very serious and dramatic things such as fatal overdoses. However, there is very little information on prescription opioids misuse among young injected drug users.
What the researchers did was to recruit 50 young injected drug users with ages ranging from 16 to 25 years old, who lived in New York, and asked them question related to misusing prescription drugs in the past. The researchers stated that among the people who they interviewed, most were white people, who had dropped out of school and who were homeless at the time. Furthermore, it seems that most of them had been previously diagnosed with mental illnesses such as depression, ADHD and anxiety. The conclusion to which the researchers got was that these teenagers and young adults should be kept constantly under supervision and that something must be done to help them, as they all felt that injecting the opioids could not harm them, but that it actually made them feel better.
Furthermore, parents or legal guardians should closely monitor all the prescription these kids get and try to make them administer the drugs properly and not to abuse them. The researchers concluded by saying that further research must be made in order to determine which environmental factors and whatever else is contributing to the huge prescription pills abuse that the United States of America is seeing right now.

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