As quickly as researchers are discovering new medications to help treat illness, people are finding new ways to abuse prescription drugs. Prescription drug abuse is defined as using a medication in any way other than how it was prescribed by a doctor.
Each category of prescription drugs comes with its own set of risks associated with use, which are compounded when they are used improperly.
This group of drugs is primarily used to relieve pain. It includes OxyContin, morphine, and codeine, among others. A person who abuses opioids will have a sense of euphoria and pain relief. They may also experience drowsiness, nausea, dizziness, confusion, weakness, and other negative side effects. This group of drugs carries the highest risk for building tolerance and developing a dependency. They also suppress the nervous and respiratory systems, which can lead to a lowered pulse and blood pressure and a slowing or cessation of breathing, which can cause coma or death.
Sleep aids, barbiturates, and benzodiazepines are meant to aid in relaxation and relieve anxiety and sleep disorders. They give a person a sense of well being but can also cause slurred speech, lowered inhibitions, and problems with concentration, coordination, and memory. Abusing these drugs can lead to addiction, lowered respiratory and circulatory functions, and death.
Amphetamines and methylphenidate are components in a variety of medications used to treat anything from ADHD to the common cold. They can cause increased energy, alertness, and a feeling of exhilaration. These drugs are often abused on their own and in conjunction with other ingredients to create the illegal drug meth. Side effects associated with abuse include panic, paranoia, insomnia, seizures, weight loss, increased heart rate, rapid breathing, and death.
Abusing prescription drugs puts users at great risk for a slew of side effects that can be permanent and life-threatening. The drugs can be swallowed, chewed, or injected, with injection putting users at risk for contracting HIV/AIDS. Many people who abuse prescription drugs feel like they are not in danger because they are taking an FDA approved medication, but prescription drug abuse can be just as dangerous as illegal drug use.
If you or someone you love struggles with prescription drug abuse, don’t hesitate to reach out for help, today! ReAlign Detox can help transition a person off of addiction so that they don’t suffer from the extreme physical effects of withdrawal that can occur. Detox isn’t the only step required to beat addiction, but it is the most important first step. Call for help, today!
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to