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What is addiction?

Friday, January 8th, 2010

What is addiction?

Drug addiction

We considered several factors in an attempt to explain and understand the causes of toxicomanie.Une thing is certain: there is no single cause of drug addiction. A person develops an addiction due to a combination of factors.

Genetic factors

Perhaps some people are genetically more vulnerable to the addictive drug can generate. Studies have shown that the risk of having a disorder associated with alcohol and other drug use is higher among those with a close relative has such a disorder (Glantz and Pickens, 1992). However, many people who are genetically vulnerable to addiction does not develop an addiction to drugs while others, who have no family history of addiction, do.

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What should I do if I am addicted

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

WHAT TO DO IF I AM A DEPENDENT?
Treating an addiction is a company with both straightforward and extremely difficult. He is to succeed no magic potion and no mechanism miracle. It is nothing less than to rearrange the entire areas of the life of the individual or in some respects from all its aspects.
Drug Addiction
To free ourselves from the addiction, we must learn to love us and respect us, to cope with our environment and we enforce. When we speak of self-perception and confidence that we may be able to cope with life, while we win the esteem and love of others, we address the addiction of in total.

We can develop a program of “behavior therapy” adapted to our own needs, based on what we know about the motives that drive us to the addiction and the factors that trigger it. Such analysis requires an examination of conscience to discover the points on which we stumble, Total honesty towards ourselves to see these situations that frighten us. (more…)

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The Concept of Addition

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

The Concept of AdditionWe regularly hear in the media as alcoholism, drug addiction is a disease. “I am not responsible for a disease”, said the drug … Without denying the therapeutic value of this concept is much more a factor of removing guilt, a scientific certainty, extensive research currently tend to consider substance abuse as a problem of lifestyle revolving around the overuse of psychotropic substances.

This habit learned (and not innate) aims to overcome the difficulties of life and lack of satisfaction at the individual, through a narrowing of the latter’s capacity to cope with the events of his life and acquire, otherwise than by the psychoactive, a real pleasure.

The use of psychotropic effect, a selective reinforcement and simultaneously, to eliminate some unpleasant experiences (eg, the chicanery of household as I drown in alcohol) and amplify those are nice (well – be felt by alcohol). Thus the individual is subjected to the experience that makes him live psychotropics. That’s the concept of addiction.

This theory is very important in that it shows that the abuses associated with the consumption of alcohol or drugs does not fall from heaven as could be disease, but is rather the result of a process, the ‘culmination of attitudes that are a function of personality, motivations, past experiences and social and cultural environment of the consumer. (more…)

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ADDICTION : individual and social problems

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

Drug AddctionDrug addiction is a behavior that is to consume habitually or periodically, one or more psychotropic substances (drugs) may lead to addiction or state of physical dependence or psychological.

For some, addiction is a coping strategy that allows a person to anesthetize using psychotropic drugs, feelings of helplessness, failure, incompetence, that is to say that depression feeds despair or pain of living sometimes rooted deep within themselves since childhood.

For others, addiction is part of a hedonistic lifestyle, egocentric and antisocial adopted prior to their introduction to drugs, the pursuit of pleasure is the basis or purpose of life, at a minimum price of effort.

“Drug addiction is a multidimensional problem because it affects the physical and mental health of individuals, their social and economic life and, in some cases because they are likely to face justice. It is multidimensional because it has many causes and many consequences, it touches many facets of life of the individual and his environment and it affects the mental balance of the person, it interferes with the quality life’s relationships, that is to say in his roles as spouse, parent, brother, sister, son, daughter, employee, employer, citizen, etc. (more…)

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