Drug Abuse

Posts Tagged ‘self medication’

by SWoo

You can overcome drug addiction by taking a comprehensive approach to this problem. Treatment can be augmented with self-hypnosis for maximum effects. You may seek help for overcoming prescription medicine, cocaine, alcohol, marijuana or nearly any other medicine found in a pharmacy. Substance abuse is a serious matter that requires attention.

It may be surprising but substance addictions help you recognize that you have issues that need to be addressed. There is a reason that you turn to substances in order to feel better. The addictive habit may be damaging and it can interfere with your daily life but they can help you recognize underlying problems.

This is a very painful way to make such a discovery but you can consider this to be part of your awakening. Your addictive tendencies may stem out of your past. You may seek assistance with substance abuse or alcohol as a form of self-medication to deal with underlying psychological conditions.    Read more...

Drug Abuse: Drug abuse/self-medication

I haven’t updated in a while, so here’s something I probably should have addressed a while ago: self-medication.

Drug Abuse: Inflexxion, Inc. Receives Grant to Study Community College Efforts Dedicated to Student Substance Use Prevention
Journal of American College Health Published Inflexxion’s Study, “A Survey of 100 Community Colleges on Student Substance Use, Programming, and Collaborations”Newton, MA (PRWEB) July 14, 2011 Inflexxion, Inc. creator of MyStudentBody, the most comprehensive online alcohol and drug education program for college students, announces the publication of its study, “A Survey of 100 Community Colleges …
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Drug Abuse: Close to 80 percent drug addicts are employed: Johari
KOTA KINABALU : A total of 9,813 persons from close to 80 per cent of total drug addicts in the country are employed. Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) director, Datuk Ir. Dr. Johari Basri said statistics presented in the context of Occupational Safety and Health, it was estimated that 8 of every 10 people infected with HIV / AIDS , and drug abuse have jobs.
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by orbitrix

There is another school of thought that the addiction is due to a mental disorder and causes physical dependency. The mental disorder must be treated first in order for any treatment plan to work properly.

One more argument is that the alcoholism and drug addiction is due to chemical imbalance. With this belief, it is thought that the addiction must be treated with some sort of medication after detox has been completed.

Scientific studies support each concept but there are no full answers and the fact remains there are millions of alcoholics and drug addicts still out there. When someone goes through the treatment process, his chances of staying clean can range between 16% and 20%. If we want recovery rates to rise, we have to come up with some sort of treatment that will make this happen.

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Drug Addiction: Drug Addiction (1951)

DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org Drugs known to cause addiction include both legal and illegal drugs as well as prescription or over-the-counter drugs, according to the definition of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Stimulants (psychic addiction, moderate to severe; withdrawal is purely psychological and psychosomatic): Amphetamine and methamphetamine Cocaine Nicotine Caffeine Sedatives and hypnotics (psychic addiction, mild to severe, and physiological addiction, severe; abrupt withdrawal may be fatal): Alcohol Barbiturates Benzodiazepines, particularly flunitrazepam, triazolam, temazepam, and nimetazepam Z- drugs like Zimovane have a similar effect in the body to Benzodiazepines. Methaqualone and the related quinazolinone sedative-hypnotics Opiate and opioid analgesics (psychic addiction, mild to severe, physiological addiction, mild to severe; abrupt withdrawal is unlikely to be fatal): Morphine and codeine, the two naturally occurring opiate analgesics Semi-synthetic opiates, such as heroin (diacetylmorphine; morphine diacetate), oxycodone, buprenorphine, and hydromorphone Fully synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, meperidine/pethidine, and methadone Addictive drugs also include a large number of substrates that are currently considered to have no medical value and are not available over the counter or by prescription. Several theories of drug addiction exist, some of the main ones being genetic predisposition, the self-medication theory, and factors …    Read more...