Prescription Drug Overuse

Prescription Drug Overuse among Adults Prescription drugs have become more frequent among adults. The two research designs will be descriptive and experimental research. Descriptive research help to offer answers to the questions of who, what, when, where, and how associated with a particular research problem; a descriptive study cannot finally determine answers to why. Descriptive research is used to obtain information concerning the status of the phenomena and to describe, what is with respect to variables or conditions in a situation. Descriptive design is use in qualitative studies such as (ethnography, case studies, and interviews.) It explores and helps gather data sources from real world situations. One of the useful methods in

Participants will volunteered to be part of the study and how they are assigned will affect the outcome of the study. Randomized control studies diminish populations biases, results are easier to analyze statistically, and population of participants is clearly identified. The issues with randomized control studies is the fact that they can be expensive, some participants may be bias and not represent the population as a whole, it may not be feasible due to cost and time constraints, does not reveal causation and follow up is not always an

This is a complex issue, as the benefits of prescription drugs and the damage to individuals go hand in hand. Medications that provide relief to pain are the most commonly abused prescription drugs, for example, Oxycontin and Vicodin. While providing pain relief by blocking pain receptors, they also cause euphoria and influence the feeling of pleasure becoming addictive. Another medications used for recreational purposes include stimulants such as, Ritalin, Adderall, and Concerta that are used for ADHD. This group of medications usually have a calming effect on persons with ADHD, but have the adverse effect in people that do not have this disorder. Finally, medication used to treat depression, anxiety, sleep, and panic attacks, such as, Valium and Xanax. These medications mixed with other drugs or alcohol affect many of the body systems. Even some over the counter medication are now being misused by people to mix them with synthetic drugs and use them illegally, causing major harm to the human body. Misusing prescription drugs is not limited to using them as recreational drugs, but also sharing them with others that appear to have similar disorders or illnesses. During this research, some adults admitted to have share medications with family members without consulting their doctors