Drug Addictions Treatment

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The meeting of psychoanalysis with the drug is new. It is new because the phenomenon of drug addiction as we know it today is new.

Freudian era, was not exempt from drugs, including drug addiction. At that time, the problem is focused mainly on the consumption of morphine. Toxic medicine, addiction was often a side effect of the treatments. There are few references in the texts of Freud and Lacan to drugs. Let alone addiction as a disease.

The difference of scale in consumption, the diversity of drugs famous (now the drug is not restricted to particular circles of money, social class or artistic fields, intellectual, athletic, etc.) Make a phenomenon of drug addiction been addressed by the various fields of social organizations.

Psychoanalysts not escape from this situation. Moreover, we are confronted with drug addiction sometimes brutal way.

The negative consequences associated with drug addiction affect many different aspects of a person’s life. These consequences are diverse, but can be divided into two groups.

Health
Drug addiction causes or is involved in the appearance of various diseases, damages and organic and psychological problems. Hepatitis, cirrhosis, depression, psychosis, paranoia are some disorders that drug addiction causes and can become fatal.

Social
When starting the drug addiction, the person is no longer able to maintain stable relationships and can destroy family relationships and amicale. drug addiction can cause the person ceases to participate in the world, abandoning goals and your life revolves around drug addiction destroyed his surroundings. Also affected people surrounding adictoadiccion to drugs, especially those in their immediate environment, including family and friends.

Poor performance at work or in the studio
You get to the level of goals and plans to leave, using drug addiction as the only “solution”.

Economic consequences
Use of drug addiction can be very expensive, leading to the addict to spend all its resources to maintain consumption, even to steal the wealth of their family and friends. Read the rest of this entry »

The drug addiction on cultural norms influence acceptable standards of substance use or addiction to drugs, while the laws determine the legal use of them. The question of whether there is a normative pattern of abuse drug addiction is still relatively uncontroversial.

Disorders related to drug addiction are caused by multiple factors including genetic vulnerability, environmental factors, social pressures, individual features of personality and psychiatric problems. However, it has not been determined yet which of these factors are crucial for people with drug addiction but accepted that they are all combined to produce the drug addiction.

Drug addiction

Used to describe a pattern of use of drug addiction that leads to serious problems or concerns as to miss work, using drugs in dangerous situations (driving a car), or continued use of drug addiction that interferes with family relationships or with friends. drug addiction as a disorder, refers to the abuse of illegal substances or excessive use of legal substances (like alcohol).

The chemical dependency

It is the continuous use addiction to drugs, even when major problems have developed. These include an increased tolerance or need for increasing amounts of drug addiction to achieve the desired effect, failure to attempt to quit drug addiction, and a weakening of their social activities.

Chemical Dependency

It is used to describe the compulsive use of chemicals (or drug addiction) and the inability to stop using them despite all the problems caused by its use.

Drug addiction is a disease with very dangerous effects if not treated properly. The worst thing is that people with drug addiction generally arrive at the chemical dependency. Read on for concerted what the causes of drug addiction.

Drug addiction is a very important public health problem. Risks and harm associated with drug addiction vary for each substance and extremely dangerous, for it is necessary to consider personal variables such as degree of motivation, knowledge or experience of using drug addiction, and the specific properties of drug addiction as well as the influence of adulterants elements.

What makes the drug addiction is a harmful addiction is that it turns against oneself and others. At the start of drug addiction apparently obtained some gratification, as a habit. But soon his behavior begins to have negative consequences in your life. Addictive behaviors for addiction to drugs produce pleasure, relief and other compensation in the short term but cause pain, disaster, desolation and a multitude of problems in the medium term.

Hallucinogens are drugs that affect perceptions, sensations, mental capacity, awareness and emotions of people. In this category are drugs such as LSD (lysergic acid dieltamídico), mescaline, psilocybin and DMT. Some hallucinogens come from natural sources, others such as LSD are synthetic or manufactured drugs.

LSD is manufactured from lysergic acid is a substance derived from ergot fungus. It was discovered in 1938 and is one of the most powerful chemicals that change the mood. Is usually taken by mouth, but sometimes, it is injected.

Mescaline comes from the peyote cactus and although not as potent as LSD, its effects are identical. Mescaline is usually smoked or swallowed in capsules or tablets.

With regard to psilocybin, derived from certain fungi, is sold as tablets or capsules. The DMT is another psychedelic drugs (hallucinogenic) that acts like LSD. Its effects begin almost immediately and last a fairly long term.

They are impossible to see. Usually, the addict feels the first effects of the drug 30 to 90 minutes after taking it. Among the physical effects include: dilated pupils, elevated body temperature, increased pulse rate and blood pressure, heart, sweating, loss of appetite, insomnia, dry mouth and tremors.

Sensations and feelings change too. The person consuming the drug may feel several different emotions at once or swing rapidly from one emotion to another. Reverse the direction of time and consciousness itself in the individual. All these changes may cause fear or panic. Who consume can also experience: confusion, suspicion, anxiety and sense of inadequacy and loss of control.

In many ways the process of addiction has been compared to entering into a relationship, but in this case it would be an unhappy relationship. As we go through successive stages, commitment is enhanced and the influence it has on the addict becomes stronger.

* Infatuation

The first experiments with drugs often leave a mark recorded. If this first contact has been nice, there is a passionate infatuation or attraction to retake the substance or the activity. This distorted perception of reality, however, excites, calms produces euphoria or which increases the probability of having a new opportunity to take or consume. There is a change of mood that, in many cases, experienced a visceral level (all caused by the logic alteration of brain chemistry) and generates the glare like one falls for a chic.

In the game, a strong initial gain increases the chances of getting addicted to gambling.

* Honeymoon

Once the individual has learned, through his family, society, or from my own experience that certain activities or consumption of certain substances can be transported as if by magic away from any feeling or mood is negative, the step addiction is easy. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »