Viagra Addiction and Abuse
Viagra Addiction and Abuse is the subject of this Special Report by Siobhan Morse, the executive director of the National Institute for Holistic Addiction Studies.
What is Viagra?
Viagra relaxes muscles and increases blood flow to particular areas of the body. Viagra is used to treat erectile dysfunction or impotence in men.
What are the effects of Viagra?
Although developing an addiction to Viagra is highly unlikely, in many cases young men who do not actually suffer from erectile dysfunction take the drug recreationally in order to enhance sexual performance.
Viagra Addiction and Abuse
When Viagra is used this way, the drug is known as vitamin V, or the magic blue pill.
The confidence boost Viagra gives often leads to repeated use of the drug and thus depending a psychological dependency.
Additionally, when Viagra is taken with ecstasy or other amphetamines, it appears to create a hypersexualized state often referred to as sexstasy.
What is Viagra addiction and abuse?
Viagra abuse typically becomes a problem when the drug leads to risky sexual behavior, including unprotected intercourse, as well as other behaviors that put someone at risk for sexually transmitted diseases.
Many men who abuse Viagra often miss work on a regular basis because of uncontrollable and persistent erections or exhaustion and sleep deprivation resulting from sexual overactivity.
Men who abuse Viagra often find that they develop a tolerance to the drug and require larger doses to achieve the same effects.
Obviously, this increases the risk of side effects from the medication.
Additionally, since a physician is not available to monitor hypertension or other conditions that could be affected by Viagra, serious long-term health complications are a real possibility.
What are the side effects of Viagra?
The side effects of Viagra include: diarrhea, dizziness, flushing, headache, heartburn, stuffy nose, upset stomach and heart attack.
Viagra Addiction and Abuse
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