5 Signs when people addicted to Pain Relief Drug

Pain medication used to treat pain. But the use of this drug is sometimes misused. The following are the signs of people abusing pain medication. Abuse of analgesics is major problem in United States. According to the latest CDC estimates, approximately 12 million people admitted using pain medication for non-medical reasons in 2011.

A new study also found that the number of new babies are born and have become addicted to pain medication tripled over the past decades due to the use of legal and illegal opioids (analgesics) such as hidrokodon and oxycodone. The number was increased from 1 per 1000 infants in 2000 to more than 3 per 1000 infants in 2009.

Opioid addiction is chronic medical condition which caused changes in brain because of the use of drugs such as oxycodone, codeine, and morphine hidrokodon.

Drug Addicts : Before and After

Consume illicit drugs is extremely bad effects on health. However, there are very many people who ignored that and still consume drugs. The impact of their body become damaged and this can be seen clearly from the look on his face. Here are some of the impact of several drug addicts. It's really scary. So if you haven't try drugs, please don't even try it, even once. Just stay away from the drugs.

Drug addiction can also be caused Descendants

Drug addiction is always been complex problems. The study found that drug addiction can be caused by heredity. The scientists found abnormalities in the brain of drug addicts and siblings who are not addicts.   

"Substance abuse is known can run into families. Having a family member who is addicted to drugs increase the risk of addiction to 8-10 per cent compared to the average person. But we have yet to find genes that influence this addiction," said Tapi Karen Esche at University of Cambridge in England as VOA News reported on Tuesday (03/13/2012).

Esche team used MRI brain scans to photograph the brains of cocaine addicts and their siblings who are not addicts. Brain scans showed the same abnormalities in the pre-frontal and striatal brain. This pattern was not found in volunteers who did not have an addiction and drug addict brothers.