The use of designer drugs is common among young people because they achieve the practical purpose of feeling good, as fast as possible. Such drugs are designed in clandestine labs that emulate other drugs. Its danger is that are easily obtained at low prices so that young people can access them in meetings with friends or in clubs, where even given away. The effect of these drugs is very fast and durable.

These include: the MDMDA (Ecstasy), Ketamine (liquid ecstasy), methamphetamine, amphetamine sulphate (speed) … and so on. Most of them are amphetamine derivatives and vasoconstrictor produced severe vascular congestion and in some cases impotence and frigidity, and many other dangers that lack of information often be minimized. They are highly addictive and cause adverse effects in no time. It is recommended that treatment is carried out by professionals.

This drug although it is illegal, is a drug that is shared socially especially since adolescence and that in many areas is even mistakenly accepted and considered low risk. It has the characteristic of being backed by the myth that a plant is harmless, and assume that by being natural is not harmful. But its implications are subtle but dramatic: in the long term, physically come to cause severe respiratory problems like sinusitis, bronchitis, lung cancer, and negative effects on the male reproductive system, impotence and infertility.

In the female reproductive system, increases the level of testosterone, the possibility of infertility and pregnancy complications. In both cases, one of the most severe consequences is antimotivational syndrome that includes loss of concentration, lack of energy, decreased working capacity, stupor and lack of motivation to the immediate future. Usually the drug addiction makes the person who has it put a lot of resistance when seeking treatment, because its consequences are not apparent grave. This self-deception is difficult to combat. For treatment, often becomes necessary professional intervention.

The addicted person has two fundamental characteristics: obsessed with their drug of choice and compulsion to consume. Also, your disease is characterized by self-deception that prevents him from accepting the sufferer and the denial of their problems and consequences that are related to their use. Do not know who is sick, so they come to believe is inferior to others and would be useless to try and live without drugs. He also believes that lives needs no help, or anyone could help. Perceives others and their world through a mind intoxicated, so the effort of the people around you does not penetrate in an objective and rational.

No human being intoxicated want to harm and hurt people you love most. The intention is to escape pain, manage their emotions, or even to drugs to feel “normal.” Obviously, the result is reversed: he suffers even more, their emotions are quite disturbed and feel “abnormal”. These people are victims of a powerful disease that affects millions of people worldwide and which can hardly be helped directly by family or friends.

For many alcoholics and drug addicts, the most difficult step was to admit they have this illness and accept help. When this happens, your recovery process starts. The easy way is to put in the hands of professionals who understand and share your experience to receive the tools and knowledge necessary to improve their quality of life. The hard way is to try to do it alone, by trying unsuccessfully again and again.

Codependency

It is a maladaptive pattern of behavior by which the person tends to permanently put the needs and interests of others above their own. This trend reflects the need for love and approval of others. The person experiences severe self-criticism, fear of rejection, and has feelings of low self-esteem. Emotionally lives with widespread dissatisfaction about personal achievements. You need to control people, pursuing what he can do, disqualifying them, still that solves problems worldwide, or “victimized“.

There is an inability to assertively express emotions and desires, so when decided, may do so angry and explosive. Due to the type of person that codependent relationships established with others, may be living situations of violence and abuse in intimate relationships, family, employment and social issues.

It is a disease characterized by a maladaptive pattern of one or more drugs (natural or chemical) which leads to significant impairment or distress in all or almost all areas of life: social, work, school, family, couple , or recreation. The person presenting some drug dependence, as time goes on and continues with its consumption, is getting a diminishing effect as it begins to develop tolerance and have the need to consume increasing amounts. In some cases, using the same drug or another to relieve withdrawal symptoms. Drug dependence may be associated with states increasingly recurrent depression. The denial, minimization and self-deception about the destructive consequences of drug dependency, mental mechanisms are characteristic of this disease.

Alcoholism or addiction to other drugs, and some compulsive behaviors coexist, have been and remain one of the most important concerns in our country. Not only are a public health problem but also family, social, economic, labor and legal: addiction not only affects the sufferer, but to all people around.

Concept of Disease
Despite many years of addiction as a disease has been defined by the World Health Organization, many people still believe it is due to a habit or vice. For this reason remains stigmatized and, unfortunately, both the addict and the people around her have avoided the problem for fear of the judgments of others and because they think it really has no solution.

It is paradoxical to think that other chronic diseases are treated with less widely used and accepted while addiction affects more people each day still considered a marginal issue and focus with so much despair and shame.

The addiction to drugs such as alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, designer drugs, prescription medications or any psychoactive drug that has taken a clear priority in self-destructive life of a person, not a single source. It is a multi-causal phenomenon that can occur in anyone, without regard to race, religion, sex or economic status, family or social.

This disease is primary, chronic and progressive. Primary means it is a disease in itself, not a symptom of other emotional or psychological disorders. As a disease, is an involuntary condition that prevents the person addicted to exercise self-control, unlike those who do not suffer, for this reason it is a cruel mistake to insist that the person is “willpower” to stop intoxicated.

Addiction is a disease characterized by loss of control in the consumption of one or more addictive drugs (alcohol, cocaine, cannabis, tranquilizers, etc.).. This loss of control makes the addict, but he wishes, do not get permanently stop using its own.

We must be aware that neither the patient’s wishes or family pressure will solve the problem. Only appropriate professional treatment can address the situation and achieve the patient’s recovery.

PHASE III:
Monitoring and Prevention

The objectives of this phase are:

Consolidate abstinence and changes made by the patient.

Prevent situations that may pose a risk of relapse, and give the patient the best resources and tools to address them.

Giving the patient more autonomy and independence through a gradual reduction of their stay in the center (under supervision and indication of the treatment team).

Getting personal reintegration, family, social, professional of the patient to achieve a full and satisfying life in all areas.

Getting families and couples to understand this disease, actively participate in patient recovery and normalize family life.

PHASE II:
Stabilization and Consolidation

The objectives of this phase are:

To develop efficient therapeutic strategies for the patient understand their disease and learn to live well without addictive drugs.

Login significant changes, the patient works to meet their personal resources and obstacles and thus increasingly assume responsibility and commitment in their treatment.

Advance the Patient Self-knowledge, and in the normalization of their family relationships, social, employment and partner.

Strengthen supervision gradually decreasing withdrawal of the treatment team.

The length of time recommended for this therapeutic process is a minimum of twelve months, but each case will be assessed by the clinical team. This treatment is structured in three phases:

PHASE I:
Detoxification, Addiction Treatment and Immersion

The objectives of this phase are:

Detoxification, suited to the characteristics of each patient under close medical supervision may take place in a hospital if they require, whilst ensuring the health and patient safety.

Identify and assess dependency, through interviews with the patient and those close to him, to develop an appropriate treatment plan for each person.

Control and monitoring of the patient withdrawal as a first stage in which its resources are not developed, along with a growing awareness of his illness, the consequences of it and their desire for change.

Immersion treatment, familiar with the treatment model, therapeutic team and his teammates, while beginning to identify and replace the habits acquired during consumption.

Effects
They have two types of effects: the first is to exert androgenic or masculinizing, namely to deeper voice, increased body hair and face and develop male sex organs and the second is an anabolic effect that stimulates the development of muscle mass and bone growth.

Physiological Effects

• Increased lean mass
• Reduction of adipose tissue
• Increase strength
• Increased resistance
• Decreased recovery time after exercise

All this leads to increased athletic performance. However, to produce an improvement in muscle strength, the athlete must also follow a training program during the time it takes these steroids.

It has shown an increase in strength and agility.