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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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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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What is Drug Addiction?

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

drug addictionDrug addiction is a very important public health problem. Risks and harm associated with drug addiction vary for each substance and extremely dangerous, for it is necessary to consider personal variables such as degree of motivation, knowledge or experience of using drug addiction, and the specific properties of drug addiction as well as the influence of adulterants elements.

What makes the drug addiction is a harmful addiction is that it turns against oneself and others. At the start of drug addiction apparently obtained some gratification, as a habit. But soon his behavior begins to have negative consequences in your life. Addictive behaviors for addiction to drugs produce pleasure, relief and other compensation in the short term but cause pain, disaster, desolation and a multitude of problems in the medium term.

Types of drug addiction
Drug addiction
Used to describe a pattern of use of drug addiction that leads to serious problems or concerns as to miss work, using drugs in dangerous situations (driving a car), or continued use of drug addiction that interferes with family relationships or with friends. drug addiction as a disorder, refers to the abuse of illegal substances or excessive use of legal substances (like alcohol).

The chemical dependency
It is the continuous use addiction to drugs, even when major problems have developed. These include an increased tolerance or need for increasing amounts of drug addiction to achieve the desired effect, failure to attempt to quit drug addiction, and a weakening of their social activities.

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