From The Rectory
The
BBC reported today:
Prescription drug
dependency worrying - health chiefs
Hundreds of thousands of people in
England are getting hooked on prescription drugs, health chiefs fear.
A Public Health
England review looked at the use of strong painkillers, antidepressants and
sleeping tablets - used by a quarter of adults every year.
It found that at the
end of March 2018 half of people using these drugs had been on them for at
least 12 months.
Officials said
long-term use on such a scale could not be justified and was a sign of patients
becoming dependent.
It
is indeed worrying. But it is also extremely complicated.
Certainly
doctors and patients should be more careful. An opioid drug, for example, will
likely be addictive and indeed ineffective after time. Higher and higher doses
may be given. Users may be distracted, anxious or dulled. There are all sorts
of possible risks and side-effects. In the States, even more than in the UK,
prescription drugs are very often a gateway to illegal ones. Detox may be
needed and harm can be long lasting.
Depression,
insomnia and pain are all chemical because that is what we are at one level. We
are biological machines. But the answers to these “conditions” are not necessarily
pills – or not pills alone. Medication can have a very important place but it
often functions by stamping rather bluntly on a symptom, often with collateral damage,
rather than addressing any other underlying problems. The place of pills can be
as a safety mechanism to give us temporary space to explore other issues. For
example, if we have terrible hip pain, we might take pain medication until we
have recovered from our hip replacement surgery. Things might not be so different
with our mental health.
We
need to also think about how we think and feel. For example, diet, exercise and
various social activities (like joining a choir or getting a dog) can make a
great difference to some depression or lowness of mood. Talking treatments can
work well for some issues and should be more readily available.
We
are more than our brains. We are embodied minds in community. And we are made
for relationship with others and with our Maker.
Believers
may suffer from all the problems which we have mentioned and more. But, other
things being equal, they do have one of the basic building blocks of mental
health in place: God!
God
does not promise his people good health or good mental health. But right
thinking involves relating rightly to God. To do so is to align ourselves with
reality and is the best way to live in God’s world.
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