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Drug Design

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Drug Design

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.

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Disease in the Person

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

addicted person

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.

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Addicion Disease III

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Codependency

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.

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Addicion Disease II

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Drug Dependence
Drug Dependence

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.

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Addicion Disease

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Addicion 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.

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Anabolic

Saturday, February 6th, 2010

Anabolic
These are drugs that mimic the effects of the natural male hormone testosterone. Different names are sold low. As is clear from recent studies this type of drug it can cause addiction. Some people need medical care when they want to stop taking steroids and experience withdrawal symptoms.

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.

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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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Drugs: Abuse and Addiction

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

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Abuse:
The drug abuse is the second stage and accepted essentially two ways:
1) The use of the drug against different stimuli, but still no regularity in time. Example: the student who also use drugs before a test, used to claim the increased performance in a sports competition, brightest display in a social gathering, etc.
2) Change of the drug, provided that still occur irregularly in time.
The individual uses different drugs, adverse effects in a compensatory manner. The individual taking stimulants for studying, sleeping and depressants to counteract the effect of the first and those rising again to overcome the dullness and able to go to work. Whether creating a vicious circle impossible to stop himself, without specialized assistance .
3) Addiction (psychological dependence on drugs and psycho). When we have been describing the process regularly takes the time and becomes permanent, the individual has reached the last stage: the drug .-

Habit:
It is the body’s adaptation to the drug, with the consequence that over time the same dose will produce no effect. For the same level of responses must therefore be increased gradually.

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