Addiction Rehab
Rehabilitate means to return to a previous condition or an improvement of even that.
An
addiction rehab that is truly effective will bypass restoring the individual to a previous condition and go straight for an improvement of even that.
The reasoning is relatively simple.
The previous condition obviously contributed to and led up to the drug
abuse and
addiction to begin with.
If one is trying to insure a drug free productive condition that will last a lifetime than one better locate, address, and fully resolve those past factors that contributed to and let up to the addiction initially and then kept it going.
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We can’t help but wonder what causes one person to become in drug or substance
abuse while another person can walk away from it. Drugs or alcohol are use in an effort to handle a problem or physical/emotional pain of some sort.
The drug is found to offer short term relief to the problem or pain.
What happens in many cases is the individual continues to use drugs and alcohol to mask the symptoms and obtain relief rather than handle the actual source of the problem or pain.
Most drugs used have a tolerance factor where it takes more and more of the drug more and more often to achieve the desired results.
This leads to abusive and addictive use which adds additional problems and pains and yet at this point the person thinks there is no other solution or relief available. Thus the person enters the downward spiral of
abuse drug and
substance abuse and addiction.
A condition characterized
by repeated compulsive seeking and using of drugs, alcohol or other similar substances despite adverse social, mental, and physical consequences is a definition that can apply to substance
abuse as well as substance addiction. When
addiction sets in however it is usually accompanied by psychological and physical dependence where the substance is craved just to feel somewhat normal.
Withdrawal symptoms, physical and mental usually appear to a greater or lesser degree when the substance is rapidly decreased or terminated.
Substance
abuse has moved into
addiction when the substance use controls the individual rather than the individual controlling the usage.
The word cocaine includes the drug in its common powder form (cocaine) and a crystal form (crack).
Tolerance to cocaine quickly develops with higher doses are more frequent use.
Compulsive cocaine use develops much more rapidly when the substance is smoked rather than snorted. Prolonged daily use causes sleep deprivation and loss of appetite. The user can experience psychotic episodes and hallucinations.
Coming down from cocaine or crack causes depression so severe that the individual will do anything to get more.
It can get so severe as to cause suicide. Cocaine
addiction will always end in one of three ways – jail, death, or sobriety.
An estimated 200 million people internationally consume illegal drugs. Drug statistics in the United States for 2003 per National Survey on
Drug Use and Health shows 19.5 million Americans were illicit drug users in the month prior to the survey.
The most commonly abused drug in the U.S. is alcohol with alcohol related motor accidents being the second leading cause of teen death in the U.S.
The most commonly used illicit drug is marijuana.
According to the world drug report for 2005 from the United Nations about 4% of the world population abuses cannabis.
In the U.S.
drug statistics from the Center for Disease Control show 45%of high school students drink alcohol and 22% smoke pot.
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