Everyone may need a prescription at some point in their lives. How should you know if what the pharmacist is giving you is safe? When the doctor prescribes the medication and you are getting a "drug" legally, will that mean it isn’t dangerous?  

Most prescriptions come with side effects that could potentially be dangerous to your health, depending on what it’s used for. Prescriptions that are dangerous, as in terms of addictions, are usually called narcotics. Many doctors do not like to prescribe these drugs due to the heightened increase of addiction to them in the last decade. People are not only abusing them, they are also selling them. There is a high demand for these drugs out on the streets that there are people that don’t "need" them, get them from their doctor and sell them. You can probably get by on Tylenol unless you have a chronic, life-altering, disabling condition.  

There has been an increased use of painkillers for the management of non-malignant, chronic pain. Painkillers have long been used for post-operative pain. Uses for palliative care is any pain of moderate or greater severity, shortness of breath, diarrhea, and painful wounds, requiring topical morphine. These are drugs that are not recommended for sedation or anxiety they have been found ineffective in these roles. 

The long-term use of these drugs show dependence is rare if the medication is being used for pain relief. When used correctly, or prescribed these are safe drugs.  

Some of these are very dangerous and may cause renal failure. Other long-term effects of these dangerous prescriptions are acute respiratory depression, acute pancreatitis, chemical toxicity, insomnia, hallucinations, and nightmares. Short-term effects of these drugs are sedation, euphoria, physical dependence, psychological dependence, tolerance, and pinpoint pupils. 

Many of these dangerous prescriptions are used for post-op pain, cancer, kidney stones, severe back pain, and a severe cough.