Drug Addictions Treatment

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A significant proportion of society uses drugs such as cocaine to escape from problems or complicated situations of everyday life. These addictions require cessation therapy after cocaine, ecstasy, anxiolytics, etc.. Pre FAQ therapy for quitting cocaine. Are we aware that a large part of the Western population need drugs (“drugs” in English) to work, whether legal (anxiolytics, antidepressants, etc..) Or illegal (cocaine, ecstasy, etc..)? Why the human body to certain substances used in some cases very detrimental, to support its existence or to produce pleasurable feelings or emotions that eventually will turn against you?

Have we created a system of life so hard, so far from nature and to bear ourselves that we have to make products harmful to our health and the medium to long term, we are forced to follow the treatment of addictions?

Having forgotten our creative ability, in the sense of transformation, our connection with the body, emotions, spirit and earth, different feelings can get hold of us: the feeling of living in the deepest monotony, in a structure rigid but effective or stagnant emotions that can make us believe that nothing makes sense. Agencies to use only drag us into a future of addiction treatment to get rid of them. Read the rest of this entry »

While 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

A gram of cocaine is a kilo of crack users. The crack users is the deadliest drug ever invented, may destroy the life of a young man in less than two years.

The basuco is the residue or bagasse that remains to remove the cocaine base containing sodium hydroxide, a caustic great destroys the skin and mucous membranes, hydrocarbon residues, such as gasoline red containing xylene and toluene hiccups that destroy the liver; white cement, insecticides with high levels of arsenic affecting gastric and respiratory mucosa, solvents (acetone) and solvent, sulfuric acid, which destroys any organic tissue, benzoic acid, amphetamine, lidocaine, caustic soda, herbicides, crushed brick, lead; potassium permanganate, chloride and others.

The basuco is the psychoactive substance that gets dirtier in Colombia and substances that are produced are of poor quality. The basuco destruction of brain tissue produces an irreversible, loss of memory.

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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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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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There are many addictive drugs and treatments for specific drugs can differ. Treatment also varies depending on patient characteristics.

The problems associated with drug addiction can vary significantly. People addicted to drugs come from all walks of life. Many suffer from mental problems, labor, physical, or social, which make their addictive disorders much more difficult to treat. Even in cases where there are few problems, the severity of addiction itself is not the same for all people.

A variety of scientifically based approaches to addiction treatment. The drug addiction treatment can include behavioral therapy (such as counseling, cognitive therapy or psychotherapy), medications or a combination of both. Behavioral therapies offer strategies for addicts to confront their drug cravings, teach them ways to avoid drugs and prevent relapse and help them deal with relapse if they do occur. When the drug-related behavior places the patient at high risk of contracting AIDS or other infectious diseases, behavioral therapies can help reduce the risk of disease transmission. For many patients, case management and ci can be referred to other medical, psychological and social issues are essential components of treatment. (See pages 23-47 for details on the types of treatments and their components.) The best programs provide a combination of therapies and other services to meet the needs of each patient, which is shaped by such issues as age, race, culture, sexual orientation, sex, pregnancy, parenthood, housing and work, plus the ability to have suffered physical or sexual abuse.

There are medicines for the treatment of drug addiction, like methadone, LAAM and naltrexone, which are available for individuals addicted to narcotics. There Nicotine preparations (patches, gum, nasal spray) and bupropion available to individuals who are addicted to nicotine.

Medications such as antidepressants, stabilizers for mood, or neuroleptics may be critical for treatment success when patients have mental disorders that exist at the same time, such as depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, or psychosis .

The treatment plan has the primary objective detoxification care for physical, mental and emotional health of the person requesting help while going through a process ideal therapeutic tools for the acquisition of emotional, cognitive and spiritual guide him to live in recovery during and at the end treatment.

The length of time recommended for this therapeutic process is a minimum of twelve months, but each case will be assessed by the clinical team. This treatment is structured in three phases:

PHASE I:
Detoxification, Addiction Treatment and Immersion

The objectives of this phase are:

Detoxification, suited to the characteristics of each patient under close medical supervision may take place in a hospital if they require, whilst ensuring the health and patient safety. Read the rest of this entry »