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Prescription Drugs > Depressants > Misuse > Examples of Misuse

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PAINFULLY OBVIOUS® — Not using medicine correctly
is a prescription for trouble!
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- Using your prescription medication for conditions other than the one it was meant to treat.
- Using your prescription medication without a doctor’s or other healthcare professional's supervision.
- Increasing the dosage or frequency on your own, without the doctor’s or other healthcare professional's permission.
- Using your prescription medicine with other medications your doctor or other healthcare professional has told you to avoid.
- Sharing your prescription medication with someone who has similar symptoms to yours.
- Combining your prescription CNS depressant with alcohol, other prescription CNS depressants, prescription opioid analgesics, or certain over-the-counter medications without your doctor's or other healthcare professional's permission. (Your doctor can tell you which ones to avoid.)
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