Over Prescribing Pain Medication

Doctors are charged with the duty of prescribing adequate medication to get a person to be healthy but not so much that a person’s health is compromised. With the ever-increasing power of pain killers, they are commonly over prescribed. As the strength increases, the potential for addiction or abuse increases as well.

Doctors should be extremely careful in prescribing pain killers to patients. In addition to killing pain and the potential for addiction, there is also the chance that any prescribed pain killer can interact with foods and other medications at the same time.

One of the biggest problems with over prescribing pain medication is that one can easily become dependent upon it. If a pain killer that is too strong for its purpose, it will create dependency very quickly. Some types of pain medications just invite addiction and dependence because of what is in them that kills the pain.

In addition to dependency, pain medication can cause a variety of other problems. Some can cause strokes if they are not used for their actual purpose. Others can damage a person’s liver or result in an awkward sleep cycle.

While pain medication alone has problems, drugs that cause a person to become drowsy can result in car accidents. Some pain medication can react with other medications and cause drowsiness, without the doctor warning the patient not to drive or operate other machinery.

Contact a Philadelphia Medical Malpractice Attorney

If you are dependent on or addicted to pain medications as a result of a doctor’s over prescription, contact the Philadelphia medical malpractice lawyers of Lowenthal & Abrams, P.C. at 215-238-1130.