Most of us take medicines.
And we do not know what its side effects are nor do we know what a Scheduled Drug means.
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Drug prohibition law is prohibition-based law by which governments prohibit, except under licence, the production, supply, and possession of many, but not all, substances which are recognised as drugs, and which corresponds to international treaty commitments in the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961,[1] the Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971,[2] and the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988.[3]
When produced, supplied or possessed under licence, otherwise prohibited drugs are known as controlled drugs. The aforementioned legislation is the cultural institution and social fact that de facto divides world drug trade as illegal vs legal, according to geopolitical issues. The United Nations has its own drug control programme, as part of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC),[4] which was formerly called the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP), and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs[5] is the central drug policy-making body within the United Nations system.
The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)[6] is an independent and quasi-judicial control organ for the implementation of the United Nations drug control conventions. It is important to note that there are several different sets of “schedules”, or lists, of controlled drugs. One is the INCB schedules (four schedules numbered I-IV), while another is the United States’ Controlled Substances Act schedules of controlled substances (five schedules, numbered I-V). Other countries also have different classifications and numbers of lists, such as those of the United Kingdom and Canada.”
Check the Link at the end of the Post which Drug comes under what category.
Onto what to the topic in discussion.
Drugs which we use ,whether they cure the disease or not ,are guaranteed to produce a side effect.
We are under the illusion that a prescribed Drug is safe.
You can not be more wrong.
Prescribed Drugs are also equally harmful.
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Abuse of prescription drugs can be even riskier than the abuse of illegally manufactured drugs. The high potency of some of the synthetic (man-made) drugs available as prescription drugs creates a high overdose risk. This is particularly true of OxyContin and similar painkillers, where overdose deaths more than doubled over a five-year period.
Many people don’t realize that distributing or selling prescription drugs (other than by a doctor) is a form of drug dealing and as illegal as selling heroin or cocaine, with costly fines and jail time. When the drug dealing results in death or serious bodily injury, dealers can face life imprisonment.
Types of abused prescription drugs
Prescription drugs that are taken for recreational use include the following major categories:
1. Depressants: Often referred to as central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) depressants, these drugs slow brain function. They include sedatives (used to make a person calm and drowsy) and tranquilizers (intended to reduce tension or anxiety).
2. Opioids and morphine derivatives:1 Generally referred to as painkillers, these drugs contain opium or opium-like substances and are used to relieve pain.
3. Stimulants: A class of drugs intended to increase energy and alertness but which also increase blood pressure, heart rate and breathing.
4. Antidepressants: Psychiatric drugs that are supposed to handle depression.
depressants: short-term effects
- Slow brain function
- Slowed pulse and breathing
- Lowered blood pressure
- Poor concentration
- Confusion
- Fatigue2
- Dizziness
- Slurred speech
- Fever
- Sluggishness
- Visual disturbances
- Dilated pupils
- Disorientation, lack of coordination
- Depression
- Difficulty or inability to urinate
- Addiction
Higher doses can cause impairment of memory, judgment and coordination, irritability, paranoia,3 and suicidal thoughts. Some people experience the opposite of the intended effect, such as agitation or aggression.
Using sedatives (drugs used to calm or soothe) and tranquilizers with other substances, particularly alcohol, can slow breathing and the heart rate and even lead to death.
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/prescription/depressants.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheduled_drug
http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Schedule+I+drug
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