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5 Stages in the Process of Addiction II

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Process of Addiction

  • In the Ruin

Now the addict must consume more to prevent the growing feelings and negative moods deepen their awareness and to try to maintain the positive effects that are becoming smaller. Is developing tolerance and not have to consume for pleasure or relief but to avoid the discomfort associated with withdrawal syndrome. Physical dependence created chemically by the action of the substance on the nervous system has captured the individual. Psychologically, the coping strategy developed so far still safe thus, far from solved problems are further amplified.

  • Imprisoned

Over time, the addict reaches a state of despair as they relate to the addictive substance or activity, ignoring everything else. Behaves increasingly impulsive and uncontrolled prisoner of addiction. This stage of the addictive relationship is a descent into despair and personal destruction. The drug subservience to the truce and not allow the spiral tends to perpetuate itself, unless something happens that stops. The return, however there is, even a too hard and difficult process.

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5 Stages in the Process of Addiction

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Process of Addiction

In many ways the process of addiction has been compared to entering into a relationship, but in this case it would be an unhappy relationship. As we go through successive stages, commitment is enhanced and the influence it has on the addict becomes stronger.

  • Infatuation

The first experiments with drugs often leave a mark recorded. If this first contact has been nice, there is a passionate infatuation or attraction to retake the substance or the activity. This distorted perception of reality, however, excites, calms produces euphoria or which increases the probability of having a new opportunity to take or consume. There is a change of mood that, in many cases, experienced a visceral level (all caused by the logic alteration of brain chemistry) and generates the glare like one falls for a chic.

In the game, a strong initial gain increases the chances of getting addicted to gambling.

  • Honeymoon

Once the individual has learned, through his family, society, or from my own experience that certain activities or consumption of certain substances can be transported as if by magic away from any feeling or mood is negative, the step addiction is easy.

Having “learned” in stage 1 it is possible to get some relief (negative reinforcement) or pleasure (positive reinforcement) through the addictive substance or activity, the person may feel compelled to erase bad feelings or pain with something positive. The low tolerance for frustration or inability to cope with such adversity leads to search for “silver bullets”, then searching for the chemical action that facilitates change.

During the honeymoon phase, the future addict experiences all the perks without any negative consequences: it feels that exerts control, the activity is harmless and that he deserves. You can instantly feel better and enjoy the feeling of forgetting everything. But what they do not realize is that any relationship based on deception and fantasy can work well long term.

  • Betrayal

However, what one sees during the honeymoon is not what actually gets. Over time, it is betrayed. Thus, besides a deterioration in key areas of your life, it is likely that the addict is doing things that would not normally do, to maintain and addiction (to steal, engage in other illegal activities). Artificial paradise that was promised in an earlier stage they turn into dark alleys filled with traps. The betrayal is real and the decline begins.

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Effects of Addiction to Benzodiazepines (Tranquilizers)

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Benzodiazepines

The drug addiction benzodiazepine alertness decreases and produces a slurred speech, poor coordination, confusion and slow breathing. These drugs can cause a person to be alternately depressed and anxious. Some people experience memory loss, making wrong decisions, moments of loss of attention and brutal changes of emotional state. The elderly may seem insane, can speak slowly and have difficulty thinking and to understand others.

Falls that may occur as a result bring bone fractures, especially hip. Benzodiazepines, although less toxic than barbiturates, cause disinhibition, ataraxia, dysarthria, and errors in performance. All sedative hypnotics produce cumulative clinical effects (with the repetition of the dose), additive or synergistic supraditivo (when given with another class of sedatives or alcohol) and residual (after completion of treatment). In the long run damage the sexual functions.

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Cocaine Addictions

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

Cocaine

Cocaine is a powerfully addictive drug. People who have tried it describe the experience as a powerful euphoria that gives them a feeling of supremacy. However, once the person begins to use cocaine, you can not predict or control how much you continue using the drug. The main forms of cocaine are sniffing ingest or inhale through the nose, injecting and smoking,

The health risks exist regardless of whether cocaine is inhaled (aspirated), is injected or smoked. However, it appears that compulsive cocaine use may develop faster when that inhaling smoke. Smoking it allows extremely high doses of the drug reaching the brain more quickly and produces an immediate and intense euphoria.

Physical effects of cocaine use include constricted peripheral blood vessels, dilated pupils and increased body temperature, heart rate and blood pressure. Some cocaine users report having feelings of restlessness, irritability and anxiety, both during use and between periods of use.

Those who use it may develop a substantial tolerance to the drug effect and many users report that they seek to gain as much pleasure as the first time, but do not.

High doses of cocaine and prolonged use can trigger paranoia. The user who smokes cocaine may exhibit particularly aggressive paranoid behavior.

Addicted individuals may become depressed when they stop using cocaine. This depression causes users to continue using the drug to alleviate depression.

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