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Drug abuse and dependence
The drug treatment or drug abuser begins with recognizing the problem. Although it was considered that the “denial” was a symptom of addiction, recent studies have shown that this symptom can be reduced significantly if addicts are treated with empathy and respect, rather than told what to do or “confronted.”
The drug treatment involves detoxification, support and abstinence. You can indicate emergency treatment in cases of acute intoxication or drug overdose. It is often necessary to help the respiratory system because there may be loss of consciousness. This usually means being temporarily connected to a respirator. The specific drug treatment depends on the drug.
Detoxification is the gradual withdrawal of the substance abuse, under controlled conditions. During the suspension process, sometimes a drug with similar action to reduce the unpleasant symptoms and risks associated with abstinence. The process is managed in an outpatient or inpatient.
Rehabilitation is the process that occurs after detoxification and is necessary to prevent recurrence. There are inpatient and outpatient programs. Individual therapy, group or family is usually part of this process that can last for a month or more.
The Famous Basuco
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.
Drugs vs. Psychological Problem
In the XXI century there are still many fears and many social issues of real concern not know. In health Things we intend to talk about drugs vs. psychological problems. Want to know more?
Drugs are a concern of the health system. Drug use has become commonplace, and this is no longer just have to do with the lower classes of society, but consumption is widespread. I dare say that this increase is the result of society in which we live, a society which leaves no time to breathe, a society dominated by stress and there are many people, people like you and me, everyday people , ordinary to seek refuge in drugs to be able (or so I believe) going to step in order to continue with their lives as dynamic, difficult and complicated. Many employers, to withstand the frantic pace of their jobs, to “live”, are caught up in this world. A world at all recommended. Unfortunately, this is so.
Taking certain test substance as cocaine, can be extremely harmful to our health. The feeling of grandeur or euphoria which is consuming this drug can lead to some types of people with low self-esteem problems habitual consumption. The problem is that this state of euphoria lasts for some time and this makes qeu is again consumed more frequently.
Contraindications to Breastfeeding
After seeing the benefits of breastfeeding in the health blog, we have to focus on the other point of view, ie contraindications to breastfeeding, since not all benefits or the mother or the baby, one of the most necessary for the formation of the newborn.
Breastfeeding a baby is a natural action as it exists, since it is the first mother-child interaction.
What you need to make clear is that breastfeeding is not negative, but there are a number of measures or situations in which breastfeeding is contraindicated.
How Much Does Being Addicted to Drugs
A patient may spend more than 80,000 a month in consumption. Not counting the cost of rehabilitation. The vast majority of addicts end up losing everything from family to their property.
The insecurity caused by organized crime hot spots turns in the economy and business. Drug addiction is a problem that can afflict any person regardless of their status or age.
Substance use affects not only their physical but the social environment in which it operates as work, family, and even their economic situation.
Drug Abuse: What It Is and How to Quit (II)
How do I know if I have a problem?
You have a problem with drugs or alcohol if you continue to use them even when they cause health problems or money, at work or school, or relationships. You may have a problem if you have developed a tolerance to drugs or alcohol. This means you need to use more and more to achieve the same effect. Listen to their loved ones who express concern about their drug use. They can help you recognize that you have a problem.
And the addiction can be treated?
Yes, but drugs addiction is a chronic (long lasting), relapsing disease. It may take several attempts before you can remain free of drugs or alcohol.
What treatments are available?
Treatment may include counseling, medication or both. Your doctor will help you find the treatment that is right for you.
How I can stop abusing alcohol and drugs?
The first step in breaking an addiction is to understand that you can take control of what he does. You can not control everything that happen in your life or most of what other people do, but you do have control over how you react to it. So use that control.
Here are the next steps to breaking your addiction:
Commit to quitting. Once you decide to quit, make a plan to ensure it actually does.
Doctor. Your Get help from your doctor can give you support and can help find a treatment that fits your needs. Your doctor may also treat withdrawal symptoms and other problems you may have as they recover from their addiction.
Get support. Ask for support from family and friends. You can also contact other organizations, these groups can give you the tools and support you need to break your addiction and move on with your life.
Drug Abuse: What It Is and How to Quit (I)
Why do people use alcohol and other drugs?
Basically, people use substances such as alcohol and other drugs because they like how are you substances make them feel. Pleasure is a powerful force. Your brain is wired so that if you do something that makes you feel good you will probably want to do it again. All drugs that are addicting can activate and affect the “pleasure circuit in the brain.
What is addiction?
Drug addiction is a disease that affects your brain and behavior. You have control over their decision to start using drugs, but once you start, the pleasurable effect makes you want to keep using them. When you become addicted to alcohol or other drugs, your brain actually changes in certain ways so that a powerful urge to use drugs controls your behavior. Someone who is addicted uses drugs without thinking of the consequences, such as health problems, money, relationships, and performance at work or at school.
What drugs can cause addiction?
People can become addicted to illegal drugs and drugs that doctors prescribe. People also can become addicted to things they can not think of drugs, such as alcohol and nicotine in cigarettes or smokeless snuff. Some drugs can cause addiction more easily than others.
What prescription drugs are safe?
When prescription drugs (prescribed) are taken in the right way is much less likelihood that you will become addicted to them. But medicines that are prescribed can be dangerous if they are abused, for example, taking more than prescribed by your doctor, taking them when not needed, or mixing drugs.
Consequences for Drug Use
Drug use, legal and illegal, is a public health problem very important. The risks and harm associated with drug vary for each substance.
It is also necessary to consider personal variables such as degree of knowledge or user experience, motivation, etc. and specific properties of each drug and the influence of the elements adulterants. What makes a harmful addiction is an addiction is that it turns against oneself and others. At first you get some bonus apparent, as with a habit.
But sooner or later his behavior begins to have negative consequences in your life. Addictive behaviors produce pleasure, relief and other compensation in the short term but cause pain, disaster, devastation and many problems in the medium term. The negative consequences associated with addiction affect many different aspects of a person’s life.
Legal: Drug abuse is against the law. Offenders (both those who experience such as those engaged in drug use) at risk of having to pay fines and / or imprisoned. An arrest can mean shame, disruption of life plans, criminal records. Certain drugs can trigger an uncontrollable violence and lead the user to crimes that are severely punishable by law.
Results with a vaccine for cocaine addiction
Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, USA, have developed a vaccine that helps block the sensation generated by cocaine use by 38 per cent of people who took it, as published in its latest issue the magazine ‘ Archives of General Psychiatry, thereby opening a new hope in the treatment of addiction to this drug.
As explained by the author of this research, Dr. Thomas Kosten, the aim is to curb the rewarding effects of cocaine and reduce relapses in their consumption, and so far it seems that “the concept works,” he said.
Cocaine molecules are too small to attract the attention of the immune system so that, for the body recognizes them, the researchers designed a vaccine that uses a harmless version of cholera toxin were added to small samples of cocaine molecular .
When the immune system reacts to the toxin, produces antibodies to cholera and cocaine, Kosten explained, and “these antibodies involve cocaine, preventing it from leaving the bloodstream. An enzyme called cholinesterase cocaine and breaks out of the body.
For the study, Kosten and his team have 94 volunteers, most crack users, a solid, smokable form of cocaine, which were in methadone treatment. In total, received five doses of vaccine or placebo for three months and those who had higher immune response were more likely to stay free from cocaine.
Thus, although the vaccine does not preclude the desire for cocaine, if he has shown to help prevent relapse in some addicts, Kosten said. The problem is that it creates antibodies in all people. “Twenty-five percent of people who are vaccinated have little antibody response,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »