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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.
Drug Addiction: According to Type
Health: drug use causes or is involved in the onset of diseases, damages and organic and psychological problems. For example, hepatitis, cirrhosis, cardiovascular disorders, Depression, Psychosis, Paranoia, etc..
Mental health: The addicts often suffer a wide range of psychological disorders, such as negative moods and irritability, defensiveness, low self-esteem and intense feelings of guilt.
Physical Health: Addiction is often associated with the emergence of a multitude of physical symptoms including eating disorders, ulcers, insomnia, fatigue, more physical disorders and diseases caused by each substance in particular.
Social: drug addicts, are often involved in assaults, public disorder, racial conflicts, marginalization, etc..
When you start to need more to drugs that other people may be ruined or destroyed intimate relationships and friendships lost. You can stop participating in the world, abandon goals, and plans to stop growing as a person, not a constructive attempt to solve problems and use more drugs as a “solution.”
The abuse of drugs can also harm others, for example, the money being paid drugs can deprive family life satisfaction as food or clothing. Discussing the problems and issues of addiction can lead to family conflicts. Violent reactions to drugs may lead the user to commit assaults and even murders. If a pregnant woman take drugs without medical supervision can cause birth defects in the new being who is in management.
Which are Drugs?
Are substances whose use may cause dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or result in a disruption of the trial function, behavior or mood of the persona. Any substance capable of altering the body and its action mental exercise it on behavior, perception and consciousness.
Drug dependence is the excessive consumption, persistent and regular term of all substance drug tóxica. The viewed from a strictly scientific point of view is the active ingredient, raw material. In that sense can be compared formally drugs in pharmacology and in the medicinacon a drug, ie drug and substance can be used as synonyms.
Drugs are a chemical used in the treatment or prevention of disease. The drugs can be produced from plants, minerals, animals, or by synthesis. A second concept that is social, pursuant to which drugs are prohibited substances harmful to health, which are abused and that somehow bring individual and social harm.
We still have the problem where these substances act, as all these drugs have a basic element in the body that is the central sistemanervioso structure which is more delicate and the most important thing for humans, and whether these substances act on these structures, damaging them, hurting, will undoubtedly constitute a serious and dangerous element to the community, individual health and public health course.
It is Drug addiction?
Drug addiction is a disease that involves the dependence of substances affecting the central nervous system and brain functions, causing changes in behavior, perception, opinion and emotion. The effects of drugs vary widely, depending on the type of drug and the amount or frequency with which they consume. Can produce hallucinations, intensify or dull the senses, causing feelings of euphoria or despair. Some drugs can even lead to insanity or death.
Dependence produced by drugs can be of two types:
- Physical dependence: The body becomes in need of drugs, so much so that when the consumer stops ensuing strong physiological disorders, which is known as withdrawal.
- Psychic dependence: The state of euphoria you feel when consuming drugs, and leads to find again the consumer to prevent discomfort or for pleasure. The individual feels an urgent need to take drugs, and experience a crash when you do not get emotional.
Some drugs produce tolerance, which leads the addict to consume greater quantities of drugs each time, as the body adjusts to the consumption and a greater quantity of substance to achieve the same effect.
Dependence, mental or physical, caused by drugs can be very strong, enslaving the will and moving other basic needs such as eating or sleeping. The need is stronger drug. The person loses all concept of morality and does things that, if not under the influence of drugs, would not do, like lying, stealing, prostitution and even murder. The drug becomes the center of the drug addict’s life, affecting all aspects: work, family and interpersonal relationships, studies, etc.
Consequences of drug addiction
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 »
What causes addiction to drugs, chemically dependent?
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.
Types of 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.
What is 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.
Effects and Dangers of cocaine use
When cocaine is introduced through the nose, start feeling the effects within a few minutes. These effects include: dilated pupils, increased blood pressure, the heart pulse rate and respiration, as also denoted a marked increase in body temperature. Also some regular users of the drug claim feelings of restlessness, irritability, anxiety and insomnia. In some people, even low doses of cocaine can create serious psychological problems. With high doses may suffer paranoia or experience what is called “cocaine psychosis“.
The occasional use can cause runny or blocked nose, while chronic aspiration can ulcerate the mucous membrane of the nose.
Although few people understand it, deaths can occur when injecting excessive doses, smoke or take drugs. The deaths are the result of multiple attacks suspension followed by respiratory and cardiac activity. Anyone addicted to this drug is subject to a fatal outcome when least expected, because cocaine in all its forms creates such physical and psychological dependence that consumers are using in increasing quantities in order to achieve the results we obtained in its inception, this being the cause of excess and therefore death from overdose.