People Sharing Acne Meds With Others?
Well, it’s no surprise that a lot of people who have prescription to drugs share their prescriptions with others. How many times have you heard of someone “borrowing” a few prescription pain pills, or muscle relaxants, or even sometimes something like an antidepressant of anti anxiety pill, especially one that has enjoyed recreational use called Xanax and Cymbalta to name a few are shared as a purely recreational drug because people enjoy the effects they have on their mood, psyche, or how it makes their body feel.Â
One that is a little perplexing though is that it was reported that out of respondents who admit they have shared or are sharing prescription medications, about six percent of them claimed they have shared or are sharing acne medications with someone else. This could mean they are sharing the less dangerous and side effect laden ones like antibiotics, but it could also mean they are sharing something like Accutane, which we all know must only be used under a doctor’s careful supervision and can have serious side effects if not monitored by a doctor or taken correctly by the patient.
Another baffling one was that patients will also share their birth control pill prescriptions. Not only is this strange, but it also seems like the people sharing wouldn’t be getting adequate dosages to keep themselves from getting pregnant, so I’m not exactly sure why anyone would want to share a prescription for birth control knowing that they are only getting a partial dosage of hormones that they know will keep them from getting pregnant, so maybe there’s something I’m missing on that one.Â
Also, the concern with sharing acne antibiotics is that if one is sharing a prescription for that, they may not get the dosage or length of treatment they need for optimal results, so it may render their acne treament with antibiotics totally ineffective if they do not take the full course of treatment because of sharing pills. Â
