Posts Tagged ‘Addiction’

postheadericon Why can not stop using cocaine?

 stop using cocaineWhen you take cocaine, it happens to run on his blood stream, reaching the brain areas that generate the feeling of pleasure. The areas where cocaine blocks one of the main substances that regulate mood, dopamine is reabsorbed when not in use interspersion space (space between each neuronal connection).

As this dopamine is not reabsorbed, this excess continues to act and stimulating the neurons, then when the brain is fooled by this excess dopamine artificial signals to decrease their production, not knowing really what happens is another thing, is not to be manufactured much, but that cocaine causes an artificial increase of the neurotransmitter.

So if you stop using cocaine for a period of detoxification, the brain is dopamine-stimulated to develop and takes time to get back to normal, during which symptoms of depression, anxiety, aggression … ie, feelings completely contrary to the pleasant role of dopamine.

In HPsis advisable to carry out a cocaine detoxification under medical supervision, unlike other drug treatment, in some cases only intervene pharmacological in order to lessen these negative symptoms that promote relapse. That is, if during detoxification treatment the patient is in poor condition, particularly mood, you tend to remember how happy he was under the influence of cocaine (consciously or unconsciously), without realizing the temporary euphoric effect and subsequent depressive symptoms and almost immediate euphoria … lasts a few minutes versus depression that is triggered for several hours or days.

The cocaine habit is an addiction, the medium and long term ends up being a punishment and a burden on the consumer addict and their environment … definitely a curse. Cocaine is like an acid that destroys the addict, their health, their freedom, their economy, their environment, their ability to react and especially their dignity … It is best to stop using cocaine altogether.

If you are a habitual user of cocaine or casual and want to leave it forever, you have to understand that the use of cocaine, albeit sporadic, is a problem, a disease and should try to persistent (rather than constant) to park the habit of consumption.

There are different cocaine detox centers where they will help fight this disease. In our centers we will help you physically and mentally to fight with proven proprietary techniques after 20 years of research. Centers and clinics in cocaine detoxification HPsis the chances of recovery are greater than if you try to solo, but remember that it is also possible without our help, with strength and desire to live better.

If the body have become habituated to cocaine, it will complain if use is discontinued, but the rewards are worth it: a drug-free life … a life of happiness and energy.

postheadericon Parents of Addicts

parents of addictsWhile each family is a story and different reality, a wide variety of aspects that resemble the parents of addicts.

In the case of addicts sons repeatedly noted that mothers tend to be lenient, attached, over-protective, ambivalent and permissive.

Often explain that when the child, the patient was his favorite son, the most good, the more docile, easier to raise, in whom they had pinned many hopes.

On the other hand the parents are usually more distant and detached, often are described by their wives as weak against their children or absent in the father role.

The relationship with the child is usually negative, especially when trying to impose discipline through very rough or inconsistent.
Often, it is possible that other brothers cmprobar generally also men, who appear to be better adapted to the expectations of the father, and even work or develop taeas related to him.

The father tends to have better relationship with them, who in a direct or indirect put as a model of what might be expected from addict son.

Comparing the symptomatic patient lives and permanently depreciate relative to their siblings.

Contrary to what one might expect, the addict does not have a bad relationship with his brother, but often relies on it to get things from their parents, for their forgiveness for something he has done or to be given another chance .

In the case of young addicts, is an attitude of open competition with her mother, who was devalued by all possible means.

Nevertheless. use of it to seek their views on any issue to finally finish criticizing his views as nonsense, old-fashioned and so to do the opposite.

Mothers are desperate, do not know what to do and often try to radical solutions through various prohibitions that are almost impossible to enforce or implement.

Parents of young addicts tend to be lenient with them. Usually their activities between the disputes between mother and daughter are very effective result

postheadericon Age of Smoking Initiation

age of smoking initiation

The average age of onset of comsumption is different for each of the substances. Alcohol and snuff are among the substances where smoking initiation is earlier, in the environment 13.

Behind them, stood cannabis with a mean age of onset is 15 years alrrededor. After 15 years of first use of stimulants such as cocaine or antefaminas, hallucinogens such as LSD, synthetic drugs such as ecstasy and heroin opiácios.

One of the main drug of onset is usually marijuana, which begins to consume the same combination of smoking and, in most cases with alcohol and its effects are not taken into account.

Thus, in certain circumstances when the gang is gathered, someone usually invites a joint, after having participated in the creation of appropriate emotional climate in which it is hard to resist sharing the drug without discomfort.

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postheadericon Pathologies of Freedom: Substance Addiction

drug addiction

From this blog we intend to treat health an issue as complicated as it is the addiction, but from the point of view of the pathologies of freedom: substance addiction. The increased drug use in society is a problem that we should all reflect.

Because that comes into play the issue of deprivation of liberty: we consume because we want to or because we need it. That is, we who decide to take substances or substances which are imposed over our decision-making.

Of course, this is where we must raise the issue of so-called pathologies of freedom. The step that has the consumption addiction is minimal, and there are many people who are not aware of it. This is the real problem and drug use have the best way to see it. Moreover, the danger is that drugs are associated with leisure, so that consumption and addiction generating just comes a time in which the drug user becomes addicted, the drugs have dominated: pathology of freedom.

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postheadericon Vaccine for Cocaine Addiction

cocaine addiction

Humanity continues to be surprised with the latest advances and discoveries in the world of medicine, unthinkable in the past. For example, one of the most important news of recent days is related to the creation of a vaccine against cocaine addiction, a drug best known and consumed on the planet.

While the topic of Influenza A H1N1, and the urgent need for mass production of a vaccine to combat a disease that has killed nearly 5,000 people worldwide, has captured the attention of the world, scientists do not stop Further research in other areas of medicine.

For example, the media echoed the news that there is a possibility that in a future cocaine addicts (drug highly addictive and stimulating the central nervous system) may apply for a medical treatment to stop drinking.

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postheadericon Drug Treatment Without Abstinence Syndrome (II)

However, detoxification, as understood in advanced treatments of addiction, involves not only the elimination of withdrawal symptoms, but also fundamentally and recovery of brain damage caused by drugs or alcohol, and of cognitive and affective unaltered. From this second viewpoint, rather than speaking of detoxification is to talk about neuroregulation, ie treat addiction means cleaning the body and repair the brain damage that addiction has caused.

These two understandings of addiction recovery can be illustrated as well. When a person breaks a bone, that is, suffering a fracture, it can treat pain, make it go away, but that does not mean it has healed if both the bone is not repaired to recover its functionality.

This does not mean that is not important to treat withdrawal symptoms when you stop using drugs or alcohol, which in fact, the withdrawal is a challenge and an obstacle to recovery from addiction. A syndrome that occurs because the body has become accustomed to the presence of drugs (you have become dependent) and the brain stops producing natural chemicals that replaces drug. That is, the body depends on the drug to function “normally”, so when you stop consuming the drug after a prolonged period of consumption, the agency has neither the natural chemicals that have stopped producing, or with the substitute chemical that is drug and, therefore, remains unchanged. Some alterations that symptoms are experienced as opposed to the effects of the drug, with great discomfort, and only disappear if no adequate drug treatment, when it gets to consume. In fact, the withdrawal becomes the biggest fear when you want to stop using drugs, as well as the main risk of relapse, the need to alleviate the discomfort that causes the withdrawal. Beyond the detoxification of drugs benzodiazepines: neuronal recovery in drug treatment benzodiazepines (tranquilizers)

But beyond detoxification or withdrawal of the drug in the body, is necessary to recover the brain areas that have been damaged by addiction, ie, it is necessary to have a neuronal recovery. The “traditional” methods drug treatment only serve to cleanse (detoxify) the body controlling the symptoms of withdrawal, but not restore these brain areas in which the drug has caused neurochemical changes, with the additional risk that this type of detoxification can mask symptoms of brain damage. Read the rest of this entry »

postheadericon Drug Treatment Without Abstinence Syndrome

The drug addiction is a serious health problem which however does not always treated, with consequent implications for the health of addicts, suffering in their family environment and social risks in educational settings and youth, the associated violence, or costs in public health related diseases by failing to act appropriately against drug addiction.

In many cases the absence of benzodiazepine drug treatment due to misconceptions about what is addiction. Yet for many people, the addiction is a matter of personal choice, that is, the addict it would be because they want to consume a lot of drugs, or is a matter of lack of character, and so the addict stops using drugs because they have no willpower . Behind these ideas is the belief that abandoning the addiction to chemicals is entirely in the hands (in the will) of the addicted person.

Drug treatment: drug neuroregulacion benzodiazepines (tranquilizers)

But the reality is that addiction, beyond the decision and will, is a condition beyond the control of the addict. The step of initiating drug treatment often does not arise on its own initiative, because with prolonged use of drugs or alcohol, the brain undergoes biochemical changes that alter behavior, thoughts and feelings of consumers, and producing , among other things, a compulsive, uncontrollable desire to consume drugs. This implies that the addict can hardly control the desire product of brain damage caused by drugs, and are associated with loss of ability to self-assess the damage that is causing consumption and to guide their behavior toward the abandonment of the abuse of drugs.

Thus, addiction is a brain disease. A disease that is treatable and that no recovery. Today, thanks to research and new technologies, more and more is known about how drugs act in the brain and the effects they produce, allowing them to develop drug treatments and appropriate drugs for the addict to regain control of their lives.

The treatment of benzodiazepine drugs begins with a diagnosis that includes the assessment of the biological, social and psychological factors that interact in each person’s disease, and involves examinations and medical and psychological analysis. After diagnosis and design process to follow, treatment involves detoxification. Read the rest of this entry »

postheadericon How to treat addiction?

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There are many rehabilitation centers and many types of treatments for addiction treat drug addicts or drug addict. Choose the center and right treatments to treat addiction or drug addicts or drug addict and this for yourself or a loved one is extremely important as it will determine the recovery of a normal, healthy life for the person suffering from addiction a drug addict or drug addict.

Andenes drogadictoEl Toxicomano addiction model is to treat addiction treatment or drug addicts or drug addict with excellent results more reliable now. Andenes treatment model for treating addiction or drug addicts or drug addict is based on the Minnesota model, which has over 65 years of operation and treat thousands of patients recovered addiction or drug addict or drug addicts all over the world. This is very reliable because it has a recovery rate of 90% of people treated for addiction or drug addicts or drug addict who is the highest of all rehabilitation centers. Continue reading to learn in establishing and involves the effective and reliable model of addiction treatment or drug addicts or drug addict. Treatment for addiction or drug addicts or drug addict

Andenes Treatment for addiction or drug addicts or drug addict is based on the Minnesota model, which was designed in the 40 general hospitals in the United States for the recovery of patients suffering from any addiction or drug addicts or drug addict. Andenes model for addiction or drug addicts or drug addict is based on the Minnesota model, but certainly with some changes and improvements with practice and study, we have made to the program. Our addiction treatment for drug addicts or drug addict is mainly characterized by the following:

# Reliability, 90% of our patients are recovered.
# Brevity, 28 days of treatment without mandatory detention.
# Personalized treatment, each case is treated individually.
# Counseling intensive, 30 or more hours a week.
# Changing lifestyles, achieving a better existence.
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