Drug Abuse

Drug abuse is a menace to the life of the addict, his family and friends and to the society.
It is like a chain that binds one’s life to endless misery and pointless dependence.
As addiction sinks in, the body of the addict longs for drugs to sustain its metabolic process. This happens until addiction begins to change the chemical physiology of the victim’s brain. At this stage, the addict becomes utterly dependent on drugs to the point of literally losing one’s self.

Recovery from drug addiction especially the worst cases, is a multifaceted effort. It takes fixing the psychological, physiological, emotional and spiritual aspects of the victim.
Drug addiction is often associated with a multitude of psychological disorders such as depression, anxiety disorders, unipolar and bipolar depression and schizophrenia.

Rehabilitating an addict in a drug addiction recovery center often involves psychological counseling and therapy to address the complexity of psychological drug-dependence with the above mentioned psychological disorders. In this kind of therapy, the patient is being taught with how to positively interact with others in a drug-free environment and how to dissociate himself with the people who brought addiction to his life.

Psychotherapy in a drug addiction recovery center usually involves a twelve-step program that pushes the patient to examine his life, quit drugs and change his habits which draws him near to addiction.

Many drug addicts suffer different degrees of chemical imbalance in the brain and body. These are physiological disorders which could make the recovery process more difficult. This is one reason why rehabilitation in a drug addiction recovery center links psychotherapy. In pharmacotherapy, different medications are given to the patient to treat his chemical dependence on different types of drugs. These medications include methadone and buprenorphine which are used to withdraw a patient from his addiction on heroin, morphine or oxycodone, and repair the chemical imbalance that was caused by these.

The emotional aspect of drug recovery is also as important as the psychological aspect because it ushers the psychological transformation of the patient. It helps the patient free himself from the bondage of drug addiction.

The key to this approach of recovery is emotional regulation. The patient is honed to be mindful of his rehabilitation so that he can recognize his negative emotional state. In this way, the patient can help himself prevent his supposedly impulsive and compulsive responses to the temptation of drugs.

Touching the spirituality of the patient is also important in his recovery process.
During the course of their drug addiction, many addicts may have already lost their faith and belief in God. But this does not mean that they are already hopeless in the eyes of God.

An attempt to restore an addict’s faith to God whom he may have once believed to be much more powerful than him, is comparable to a seed planted on a barren soil. If this seed of faith will be well taken cared of, it will grow and nourish the well-being of the patient as he tries to start a brand new life away from drugs.

Though not all of these can be addressed at one time in a recovery program, attempts to simultaneously address as many of them as possible could help the addict recover.

Drug Addiction: General Hospital – July 1998 – Alan’s Drug Addiction Part 10

Part 10. Alan tells Monica that she is his life support. Monica is worried about him. What if he gets arrested. He tells her that if he gets arrested, he’d hang himself. This takes the wind out of Monica’s sails. Alan stalls coming to bed to pop some pills while Monica watches from the door. Monica visits Jason and manages to get through to him about how she loves him by comparing her situation with his relationship with Michael. Jason lets Monica hold Michael. Later, Monica meets with Taggert on the docks and refuses to help him get Jason. Taggert reiterates that he’s after Justus not Jason. Monica says, “He is family too.”
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