Prescription drugs and pain seem to go together like baseball and hot dogs, but unlike the latter, the former is anything but healthy – when used indiscriminately or for too long. The fact is that overuse of prescription drugs can put you into a self-defeating loop.
Here’s what can happen. You have pain, so you take prescription drugs to relieve it. This works for a while, but you figure, what the heck, I’ll just continue to take the meds so I don’t feel the pain. Over time, however (and how much time is different for everyone), the drugs don’t seem to work as well as they once did. You begin taking them more frequently, maybe even doubling up the dose.
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