Painkiller Addiction Is As Severe As Any Other Narcotics

20 percent of American's abuse prescription drugs. Yes, prescription-drug abuse is a growing problem of America. Long-term use of painkillers like OxyContin, Xanax, Vicodin, Valium and retalin etc. are resulting in dependency and addiction.   

Drug addiction is a severe problem for its effects result in social problems as well. Apart from resulting in-to 40 million serious illness or injuries among people, it creates social problem likes drug driving, violence, stress and child abuses, criminal offences, peccadilloes; complicity leading to privation, work problems and harm to unborn babies.

These dependencies are nothing less than that of cocaine and heroin. A person addicted to these painkillers needs Virgin Islands drug rehab as much as the cocaine addict does. Prescription of these drugs makes them easily available in the market and t becomes easy to buy them in bulks. Everybody relays on painkillers for the relief from ailments such as headaches, cramps, injuries, etc. unfortunately some of us start relaying on them too much. For them, the reliance changes from being medicinal to physical. A drug popularly taken for pain relief gradually creates a demand in an individual's body for it.  Patient becomes an addict and feels anxious, weak and restless without it.