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Show ' 4B ""kyi , Lakeside Review North, Wednesday, August 1, 1984 Claims Physician ill Many Prescription Drugs Misused Abuse of prescription and Wheelwright. M.D. Dr. Wheelwright says that tremors, visual hallucinations, convulsions, and cerebral edema. Withdrawal from narcotics always unfolds in the same way for every person, says Dr. The stages of Wheelwright. says Dr. NYheelwright. narcotic withdrawal are signs of There is a distinction between nervousness, dilated pupils, emotional and physical addiction. runny eyes and nose, excessive Dr. Wheelwright explained. An yawning, jerking muscles, excess emotional dependence develops perspiration and chills, goose when a,n individual thinks he flesh, abdominal cramps, diarrhea needs the drug. True addiction is and vomiting. These people are a physical dependency, the body not in any real medical danger comes to tolerate a substance, but they just feel lousy. then requires it." Sources for legal prefeription Drugs such as amphetamines drugs which are being abused (stimulants) and marijuana can often come from a patient cause an emotional dependency, visiting several doctors, according but not a true addiction, he says. to Dr.. Wheelwright. He said one Barbiturates can lead to depenman came to him admitting he dency gradually, he says. People had a dependency problem with a who are dependent op barbitudrug in excess of 70 pills per day. rates like Seconal and Nembutal He had been to every doctor he develop a tolerance to the drug, could find on the Wasatch Front then, often begin to increase the and finally he' just ran out of dosage. Once a person becomes sources. dependent, says Dr. Wheelwright, Illegal drugs are obtained in a life becomes getthe focus number of ways, he said. These ting and taking the drug. include forging prescriptions and There are people who are takbuying drugs others have stolen ing from 12 to 20 barbiturates per 'from pharmacies. He' said some 'day, he commented. If they had people call in their own taken that many when they first prescriptions to pharmacies, started using the drug, they would claiming to be the doctor or a , have had a very long night. They doctors assistant. It is getting never would have awakened. more and more common for People increase the dosage of . people to call in their own prescribed medication, says Dr. prescriptions. Most pharmacies double check Wheelwright, because they develop a tolerance, the dosage must , with doctors to be certain the '.be increased to achieve the ef- prescription is valid. Dr. fect" they seek. A narcotics adWheelwright there aresays. diction begins in some people a few Unfortunately, with the very first dose. call the never who pharmacies ' All narcotics are addictive, he doctor to verify a prescription. A lot of prescriptions are says, but this is not true of all sedative-typ- e drugs. The drugs written because patients go to the that have the shortest effect seem doctor and they expect to get to be the most addictive. Dr. says something, When withdrawing from Wheelwright. Sometimes it is psychoactive drugs, drugs which . easier for the doctor to write a affect the mind or behavior, there prescription than it is to sit down are several stages that may be and talk to the patient. Dr. says encountered, Many patients feel they cant These include: get by without some sort of Wheelwright. poor judgement. True addiction is defined by the World Health Organization as continued use of an agent over an extended period of time, to the detriment of society, self or both, drugs is rapidly increasing, and both doctors and patients contribute to the growing problem, according to Harvey P. sta- tistics indicate one billion prescriptions were written in this country in 1981. That is enough for 6.2 prescriptions for every man, woman and child in this country, he said. And there is plenty of evidence that many of these (prescriptions) are not necessary. Dr. Wheelwright a psychiatrist on staff at McKay-De- e Hospital ( enter is director of the Weber County Drug Abuse Clinic. He spoke recently at a psychiatric forum sponsored by McKay-De- e Hospital's Center for Counseling and, Therapeutic Services. When the Weber County Drug Abuse Clinic opened its doors in 1974, Dr. Wheelwright says the leading cause of addition was heroin or similar street drugs. Now 80 percent of all the people we see are addicted fo prescription drugs. Drugs are a major Cause of suicides and accidents, he noted. of-hi- s Heading the list for the most abused drug is alcohol, which Dr. Wheelwright described as an extremely damaging drug. Accidental deaths occur from prescription drugs because too many people think, If one pill is good for them, two is better, Dr. Wheelwright says. In economic terms Americans spend about $9 billion a year for prescription drugs, he added. The notion that minor tranquilizers like Valium and Librium do not impair judgement and coordination is false, says Dr. Wheelwright. I shudder to hear a patient say, I was nervous so I took a couple of Valium before I came to see you. It is the same as saying, 'I had a couple of beers, both result in the. same medication, says it be more cautious," he says. "It would be well for doctors to teach their patients how to deal with the discomforts of life. And sometimes a vote of confidence that they can make it is all a patient needs." One of the reasons for the widespread abuse of drugs is that so many patients demand comfort, says Dr. Wheelwright. Life is not a comfortable trip, it wasnt designed that way and it isnt going to be that way. People have grown so used to comforts, like air conditioning, they cant bear any kind of discomfort. Some things are good for us that are not particularly comfortable. Accepting that life is difficult makes living with difficulty much easier, he says. 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