When the medicines such as common painkillers, stimulants and sedatives are used in excess without the physician’s prescription this phenomenon is known as prescription drug abuse.

Survey conducted in 2007 by the National Institute on Drug Abuse reveals that, prescription drug abuse crops up in more than 20 percent of U.S. college students as well as in non-college seniors. Most popular for the prescription drug abuse are codeine-based painkillers such as Oxycodone, stimulants such as Dexedrine and those containing Hydrocodone.

Common central nervous system (CNS) acting drugs for the treatment of physiological problems include barbiturates e.g. pentobarbital sodium, and benzodiazepines such as diazepam, bromazepam and alprazolam.

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