Are There Treatments for People Addicted to Prescription Drugs?
Press Release September. 2011
The nonmedical use of prescription drugs increased
dramatically in the 1990s and remains at high
levels. In 2007, approximately 7 million people
aged 12 or older reported nonmedical use of a
prescription drug. The most commonly abused medications
are painkillers (i.e., opioids: 5.2 million people),
stimulants (e.g., methylphenidate and amphetamine:
1.2 million), and central nervous system (CNS)
depressants (e.g., benzodiazepines: 2.1 million).
Like many illicit substances, these drugs alter
the brain's activity and can lead to many adverse
consequences, including addiction. For example,
opioid pain relievers, such as Vicodin or OxyContin,
can present similar health risks as do illicit
opioids (e.g., heroin) depending on dose, route
of administration, combination with other drugs,
and other factors. As a result, the increases
in nonmedical use have been accompanied by increased
emergency room visits, accidental poisonings,
and treatment admissions for addiction. Treatments
for prescription drugs tend to be similar to those
for illicit drugs that affect the same brain systems.
Thus, buprenorphine is used to treat addiction
to opioid pain medications, and behavioral therapies
are most likely to be effective for stimulant
or CNS depressant addiction—for which we
do not yet have medications.
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