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What are the signs of painkiller addiction?
Here are three categories of signs and symptoms that may indicate an opioid use disorder is present:
Behavioral signs:
Seems obsessed with obtaining the medication.
Engages in doctor shopping to obtain more refills.
Steals painkillers from friends and family.
Experiences financial problems associated with opioid use.
Experiences legal problems related to opioid use.
Has a decline in work performance.
Withdraws from social activities.
Neglects responsibilities.

What is opioid use disorder?
Painkillers, or opioids, are highly addictive substances. They interact with our brain’s opioid receptors, attaching to the receptors and creating a surge of dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that signals the body to feel pleasure, which is recorded in the brain’s reward system.
With continued painkiller use, the neurotransmitters in the brain become altered, which leads to drug dependence. With prolonged use, the body requires higher doses more frequently in order to satisfy its physiological demands. As a result, dependence and addiction, or an opioid use disorder, can develop within weeks.

There is absolutely no one who enjoys suffering from acute or chronic pain. To someone who’s experienced an injury or endured surgery, prescription painkillers can help them deal with the discomfort. Unfortunately, tens of thousands of Americans lose their lives each year due to painkiller addiction.

If you need additional pain relief, you can combine aspirin, naproxen, or ibuprofen with acetaminophen. However, do not take aspirin, naproxen, or ibuprofen within 8-12 hours of each other. Also, watch out for pain medications that might be included in combination products such as those used for cough and cold.

The brain itself doesn't feel pain. Though the brain has billions of neurons (cells that transmit sensory and other information), it has no pain receptors. The ache from a headache comes from other nerves — inside blood vessels in your head, for example — telling your brain something is wrong.

People feel pain when signals travel through nerve fibers to the brain for interpretation. Pain is typically the result of tissue damage and it allows the body to react to and prevent harm. The experience of pain is different for every person, and there are various ways to feel and describe pain.

MEDICATION SAFETY
Keep all medications, including vitamins, out of reach and out of sight. We want to encourage our kids to explore and discover their world, so it’s especially important to include medicine safety when childproofing your home. Here are a few tips on how to keep kids safe around medicine.
Hard Facts about Medication Safety
Medicines are the leading cause of child poisoning.
In 2017, nearly 52,000 children under the age of six were seen in the emergency room for medicine poisoning. That’s one child every ten minutes.

Share Medicine Safety Information
Share medicine safety information with family and friends. Teach other caregivers such as family members, babysitters and friends about medicine safety and make sure they know the Poison Help number.

Talk to Your Kids about Medicine Safety
Teach your child that medicine should always be given by an adult. It's important for kids to know that they should not take medicine on their own. Parents and caregivers can help make sure they are taking it correctly.
Don't refer to medicine as candy. While saying medicine is candy may make it easier to get younger children to take medicine, it may encourage them to try it on their own.
Model responsible medicine use. Make sure to store medicine out of reach of children, read drug facts and prescription labels before taking medicine and follow the dosing instructions.

How to Get Rid of Medicine Safely
Clean out unused and expired medicines in your home. Reduce the risk of kids getting into medicine by getting rid of unused or expired medicine. Many communities have a medicine take-back program. This is an easy way to get rid of your unused or expired medicine.
Get rid of medicine safely. Pour the medicine into a sealable plastic bag and add water to dissolve the medicine. Add kitty litter, sawdust or coffee grounds to the plastic bag to make it less appealing for children or pets before throwing it away. Check the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommendations for medicines that should be flushed down the toilet.

Read the label and know what's in the medicine. Check the active ingredients listed on the label and make sure you don’t give your child more than one medicine with the same active ingredient.
Follow the dosing directions on the medicine label. Even if you have used the medicine before, sometimes the directions about how much medicine to give change.
Use the dosing device that comes with the medicine. A teaspoon or tablespoon used for cooking won't measure the same amount as the dosing device.
Write clear instructions for caregivers about your child’s medicine. When other caregivers are giving your child medicine, they need to know what medicine to give, how much to give and when to give it.

Read on for important safety tips.
Take Medicine as Prescribed — with Input from Your Health Care Provider.
Store your Medicines Properly and Check the Expiration Date.
Be Aware of Potential Medication Interactions and Side Effects.
Keep a Medication List.

Organs:
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The extensive use of organs for transplantation demands that their quality and safety should be such as to minimise any risks associated with the transmission of diseases. Hospitals including procurement organisations and transplantation centres that perform any activity associated with the donation, testing, characterisation, procurement, preservation, transport or transplantation of organs intended for transplantation to the human body fall within the scope of the Organs Legislation.

Medicines and side effects:
Medicines can help us live longer and healthier lives. They can help cure or treat an illness or disease and can also prevent some conditions from developing in the first place.
During the course of our lives, it is likely that we will all need to take medicines. These might include vaccines to prevent illness or prescription medicines such as antibiotics to treat serious infections. Some of us may also take over-the-counter (OTC) medicines to treat minor symptoms like headaches as well as dietary supplements such as vitamins.
Most of us will not experience any problems when using medicines. However, all medicines have some risks and a small number of people may develop side effects (also known as adverse reactions). This webpage tells you what to do if you think you have had a side effect to a medicine.

How to take medicines safely:
Medicines can make the quality of our lives better in many ways. They can help cure or treat an illness or disease and can also prevent some conditions from developing in the first place. In this way, medicines can help us live longer and healthier lives.
Nearly all of us will need to take medicines at some point in our lives. These may be:
medicines that are only available with a prescription from a doctor, dentist or certain nurses (known as prescription-only medicines); or
medicines that you can buy over-the-counter without a prescription (sometimes called OTC medicines).

From time to time notices relating to the safety, efficacy and quality of human medicinal products are published by the Health Products Regulatory Authority.
The issues covered by these notices include medicinal product safety information, updated efficacy information on the appropriate usage of medicines and quality defect information.
Notices are categorised in accordance with their importance at time of publication.
The four notice categories are outlined as follows:
Advisory - Routine safety information
Warning - Urgent safety information
Recall - Urgent safety information relating to a product recall

Your pharmacist may give you a medicine that comes in a different shape or colour and has a different name. For example, you may be given a generic version of an original, brand-name medicine.
A generic medicine has the same active ingredient as the original medicine it is based on. The active ingredient in a medicine is what makes the medicine work.
The generic medicine has the same effect and is just as safe as the original medicine. If you have any questions about generic medicines, ask your doctor or pharmacist.

Taking your medicines:
If you don't take your medicines properly, it may not work and may cause more harm than good. Here are some tips to help avoid mistakes.
Don't take more than the recommended dose. For medicines that have been prescribed for you, the dose will be on the pharmacy label. For medicines that you have bought without a prescription, the dose is written on the packet or label and in the package leaflet that comes with the medicine.
Don't take a medicine that is out of date.
If you forget to take your medicine, check the package leaflet that comes with the medicine for advice or talk to your doctor or pharmacist.
Don't stop taking your medicine, unless your doctor or pharmacist tells you to stop.
Don't take a medicine for longer than your doctor or pharmacist tells you to.
Don't share your medicines with other people.
Don't take a medicine that was prescribed for somebody else.
Don't save a prescription to use in the future unless your doctor advises you to.
If you take prescribed medication, never take a non-prescription medicine without first checking with your pharmacist.
Don't crush pills or open capsules to make them easier to swallow unless your doctor or pharmacist says it is alright to do so.
Alcohol can interact with some medicines or reduce their effect. Check with your doctor or pharmacist if it is alright for you to drink alcohol while you are on medication.
Don't take medicine in front of children as they often copy what they see adults doing.
Don't ignore an unexpected side effect that you think may be related to the medicine you have taken. Contact your doctor or pharmacist immediately.

Medicines can make the quality of our lives better in many ways. They can help cure or treat an illness or disease and can also prevent some conditions from developing in the first place. In this way, medicines can help us live longer and healthier lives.
Nearly all of us will need to take medicines at some point in our lives. These may be:
Medicines that are only available with a prescription from a doctor, dentist or certain nurses (known as prescription-only medicines); or
medicines that you can buy over-the-counter without a prescription (sometimes called OTC medicines).

A lot of people go away from their general practice surgery with a medicine, with a prescription. It’s really important to fill in that prescription. You’d be surprised how many people don’t bother to fill it in. And it’s really important. A lot of the medicines you get are actually life-saving. They may not feel life-saving at the time, like cholesterol-reducing medications, blood pressure-reducing medications, low-dose aspirin, all sorts of medications like that, medicines for your diabetes. Really important that you fill in the prescription, and you take it.
It sounds as if, why am I saying this? Well, why I’m saying this is that after a year of a prescription, you’d be surprised how many people are no longer taking their potentially life-saving medication.

Prescription medicines are medicines you can get only with a prescription (order) from your doctor. You get these medicines from a pharmacy.
These medicines are only safe to use if your name is on the prescription. Using someone else’s prescription medicine can be very harmful.
Sometimes you can choose between a generic medicine and a brand name medicine. Generic and brand name medicines work the same way, but generic medicine usually costs less.

Measure and Watch Your Weight.
Limit Unhealthy Foods and Eat Healthy Meals.
Take Multivitamin Supplements.
Drink Water and Stay Hydrated, and Limit Sugared Beverages.
Exercise Regularly and Be Physically Active.
Reduce Sitting and Screen Time.
Get Enough Good Sleep.
Go Easy on Alcohol and Stay Sober.

Take your medicine regularly and according to your health care provider’s instructions. If you’re having bothersome side effects or have other questions, talk to your provider.
Don’t take prescription medication your health care provider has not prescribed for you. Taking someone else’s prescription medication can be very dangerous.

Manage medications safely
Store medicines in a proper location. Medication should always be stored safely in a dry, cool place.
Keep medicine in a childproof place.
Take medicine in a safe environment.
Take only your own prescriptions.
Ask your pharmacist before drinking alcohol.

Make medicine part of your daily tasks. Take your pills at the same time you do other regular activities -- before you brush your teeth, after you eat breakfast, or at bedtime. If you need to take your medicine at work, keep a supply of pills in your purse, briefcase, or at the office.

If you have questions about a medicine, ask a pharmacist or another healthcare professional before you buy it. Take the medicine exactly as directed on the label. Be cautious when taking more than one medicine at a time, and ask your healthcare provider or pharmacist about potential interactions.

If you have questions about a medicine, ask a pharmacist or another healthcare professional before you buy it.

If you have a symptom like pain and take another persons prescription pain medication instead of seeing a doctor, your medical problem could get worse.

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