University warns against tranquilizers, stress and anxiety medications

Qassim University warns against tranquilizers, stress and anxiety medications

"Labyrinth House" attracts visitors to Qassim University's campaign in Abana

The University, represented by the College of Pharmacy, warned against the wrong use of sedative drugs, Xanax, Lyrica, and cough medicines in its educational awareness campaign held in Abanat Center (Dali'a Rashid), 190 km west of Buraydah, The college dedicated a corner in the maze house adjacent to the main tent of the campaign in which it highlighted the harms of addiction and the various forms of addiction in an educational awareness framework that received a large number of visits from schools in Abanat center and neighboring centers and hamlets. The maze contained six theatrical scenes in a tragic-comedy framework in live scenes written and directed by Mohammed Al-Yahya, script and dialogue by Ahmed Al-Tuwaijri, and acting by Omar Al-Samani, Abdulkarim Al-Mutairi and Abdulaziz Al-Mashouh, The role of the College of Pharmacy comes in the last scenes of this play by enabling visitors to wear specialized glasses to know and see the feelings of alcohol and hashish users, which shows their loss of concentration and inability to stay still and the great and dangerous problems they suffer because of these substances, in addition to distributing brochures and awareness brochures warning about this dangerous scourge that directly contributes to the elimination of its users, Specialists at the college explained that the use of these tranquilizers, which are a group of drugs that are prescribed by a psychiatrist to treat cases of anxiety and insomnia and are used when performing surgical operations and cases of muscle tension and epilepsy, are considered barbiturates, causing drug habituation, and with repeated use, the patient first enters the state of psychological attachment, and with continued use of these compounds, he reaches the stage of physical attachment, The university also warned against the use of medicines without referring to a specialized doctor, including the drug Alprazolam - Xanax - which is used to relieve anxiety, stress and sleep disorders due to its rapid effect and the wide range of its effectiveness in treating these conditions, which caused a wide door to addiction to this drug and its spread, Among the most important harms of its misuse are addiction, difficulty staying awake, fainting, mental confusion, memory confusion, hypoxia, low blood pressure, coma, muscle cramps, impaired motor function, suicidal desire, and death, In addition to a number of medicines such as cough medicines such as "quadienne and dextromethorphan" - and sedative drugs such as "barbiturates" - and pregabalin - Lyrica - used medically for some cases of epilepsy, peripheral nerve pain, social anxiety disorder and fibromyalgia, specialists provide methods of treatment from drug addiction and general advice on the safe use of medicines.