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Psychiatric Drug in Demand On Streets

Seroquel is considered as a novel drug in adult patients for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder which helps them to stabilize their lives. As a result of tablet prescription children with serious mental illness were also prescribed similar medications. But this days use of Seroquel is growing in popularity in a different age group with men and women living on the margins who simply wants a good night rest.

The use of Seroquel as a sedative shows the no. of prescription drugs that crosses the illicit drug market, which would create incentives for dealers to obtain drug. The dealers obtaining the drugs are either unaware of ignorant of the side effects of this drugs. If this drug is misused it can lead to risk of high diabetes, heart and blood pressure problems and rapid weight gain.

The Seroquel drug appears to be more addictive psychologically rather than physically addictive. In a 2007 American letter a psychiatrist working on drug abuse said that the persons using this drug just had the fake habit of taking this drug to help them make sleep.

One of doctors who are a substance abuse specialist said Seroquel gained street value when tablets began filling up of the medicine of psychiatric patients. Because of the shortage of other effective psychiatric medications Seroquel has been prescribed for children with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and people with anxiety and depression.

Some of the clinicians also said that they are actually very sad with the idea that people on the streets are using a powerful antipsychotic drug to make them feel asleep. The drug Seroquel has been used worldwide with its misuse the most common one, making just $4 billion sales in last month. These drug abuses are not only till the usage of it as an illicit drug but also have its effects as a safe, effective and necessary medicine when used with doctor’s prescription and medications.

Clinicians at many drug treatment programs have started to curb Seroquel prescriptions to reduce the treatment for drug abuse. The main motivation to acquire Seroquel is to make oneself sleep, making it necessary to curb this effect with adverse motivation to sleep without the usage of this drug.

On analyzing this report one gets shocked to see that the prescription drug seroquel used as a psychiatric drug has made many people addicted to it, without which they feel they are unable to sleep. So to combat this prescription drug addiction one needs to curb on the usage of this illicit drug Seroquel which needs to be mandatory requirement as of now.

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