Dangers of Prescription Pain Killers

It is vital to understand that virtually ALL of these drugs are POISONOUS to your body and all have powerful known and unknown side effects. There is no such thing as an innocent back pain drug.

Worse still, prescribing doctors rarely take the time to discuss these risks with patients before handing out scripts like Halloween candy. Personally, I have never had a doctor bring up risk factors for any medication given to me, regardless of whether it was an antibiotic, pain medicine, anti-inflammatory or other substance.

Dangers of Prescription Pain Killers / Interactions

Interaction describes a scenario where your pain medication reacts to other substances in your body, such as herbal supplements, vitamins, minerals, alcohol or other drugs (legal or illegal).

More patients die due to fatal interactions than from any other reason linked to prescription pain killers. Combining pain meds with other drugs or alcohol is a deadly cocktail which takes thousands of lives every year.

Make sure to be 100% honest with your doctor and pharmacist about any other drugs you use on a regular or occasional basis.

Dangers of Prescription Pain Killers / Dependency

Drugs are toxic to your body and generally lead to a downward spiral of health. This obviously true for illicit drugs, but is equally accurate when used to describe legal long-term prescription drug use.

Many patients using pain meds for an extended time suffer the exact same physical and psychological markers demonstrated by common street addicts. The only real differences between the two varieties of drug addict is the legality and economic circumstances, since prescription drugs are mostly covered under private health insurance.

For unlucky patients who do not have adequate health coverage, dependency issues often lead to degeneration of character and descent into a criminal existence in order to facilitate their ongoing drug habit.

Dangers of Prescription Pain Killers /
Side Effects

Patients must be aware that every back pain pill is potentially dangerous to their health. Make sure to research any drug thoroughly and understand all risks before using them, especially for chronic symptomatic complaints.

Dangers of Prescription Pain Killers / Advice

Please, be careful when taking any prescription drug for pain. Discuss the drug openly with your doctor and be very wary of physicians who are too eager to give out pills. These doctors are not worth your time and effort. They have lost their incentive to really care for you and simply throw pills at you until you shut up. It is sad, but it is true. Don’t buy into this tarnished image of a medical professional.

Take responsibility for your own health. Regardless of the cause of your pain, try to wean yourself off pain meds ASAP. This is a good rule to remember and it might even be the very rule which might save your life.