Health Care Tips : Addiction

 

“People are not addicted to alcohol or drugs; they are addicted to escaping reality.”

Addiction is a dangerous disease that affects your brain and behaviour. When you’re addicted to drugs, you can’t endure the desire to use them, no matter how much harmful the drugs are. The earlier you start the treatment of drug addiction, the more likely you are to avoid some of the more dire outcomes of the disease.

Drug addiction are not just heroin, cocaine, or other illegal drugs. You can get addicted to alcohol, nicotine, sleep and anti-anxiety medications, and other legal substances.

The problem is the problem. And substance misuse is often just a symptom of that problem.

Just like...

1.    Loneliness

2.    Shame

3.    Grief

4.    Insomnia

5.    Anger

6.    Anxiety

7.    Depression

8.    Flashbacks

9.    Stress

At first, you may choose to take a drug because you like the way it gives you escape from the reality and the way it makes you feel. You may think you can stay in control but just see how much and how often you use it. Over time, drugs change your brain works, it drives you insane. These physical changes can last a long time. They make you lose sobriety and can damage your way of behaving.

In order to Asian reports, Alcohol, cannabis, opium, and heroin are the major drugs misused in India, says the report. Buprenorphine, propoxyphene, and heroin are the most commonly injected drugs.

Recovery is hard, regret is harder.

Addiction vs. Abuse and Tolerance

Drugs are like the source of losing your control over everything, it gives you weakness, so the powers of your brain destroys and automatically these harmful drugs take charge on your brain and also on your behaviour. It drives you insane, due to insanity you get anger issues and it turns on the abusive side of yours as well as you become the most violent person.

Addiction is dangerous when it starts damaging your health, hurting your loved ones, it starts with arguments and end with loosing yourself. Bad habits reign over to uncontrollable rage, and mischievous behaviour.

When you use opioids for pain for a long time, for example, you may develop tolerance and even physical dependence. This doesn’t mean you’re addicted. In general, when narcotics are used under proper medical supervision, addiction happens in only a small percentage of people which is curable in some quarter time.

“That drug abuse is an exclusively urban phenomenon is a myth,” said Gary Lewis, the South Asia regional representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. Injecting drugs, smoking weed and high-risk behaviours are seen in urban and rural areas, he added.

Effect on Your Brain

As we got to know there are different types of addiction like Alcohol, Smoking, Marijuana, heroin etc. These all affects on your brain. It makes you numb. The brain craves a reward of substance. Some strange, weird traits of behaviour. From your daily routines to your addicted schedules, it all changes.

The drugs that may be addictive and target your brain’s reward system. They acquire your brain with a chemical called dopamine. This triggers a feeling of intense pleasure. You keep taking the drug to chase that high.

Over time, your brain gets used to the extra dopamine. So, you might need to take more of the drug to get the same good feeling. And other things you enjoyed, like food and hanging out with family, may give you less pleasure.

Drugs take you to hell, Disguised as heaven.

Just like this you can’t ruin your life for the temporary pleasure.

There is no offense that drugs drive you to different world. Which is non-judgemental, no stress, no complaints, completely away from this daily routine. It’s all the way you think, by fortunate we humans are enough capable to control our minds.

 

 

Signs of Addiction

You may have one or more of these chain signs:

• An urge to use the drug every day, or many times a day, every day.
• Taking more drugs than you want to, and for longer than you thought you would
• Always having the drug with you, and buying it even if you can’t afford it
• Using drugs even if they cause you trouble at work or make you lash out at family and friends
• Ignoring relationships, running away from commitments, Spending more time alone.
• Neither taking care of yourself nor caring how you look
• Stealing, lying, or doing dangerous things, like driving while high or having unsafe sex.
• Spending most of your time getting, using, or recovering from the effects of the drug
• Feeling sick when you try to quit

How to Prevent Addiction to Prescribed Painkillers

Most people who take their medication as prescribed by their doctor do not become addicted, even if they take the medicine for a long time. Fears about addiction should not prevent you from using narcotics to relieve your pain.

Many times, people have abused drugs or alcohol in the past or have family members who have, you may be at a higher risk.

Yes, if there is any family history behind you, you might face some problems due to hereditary. 

To avoid pain medicine addiction:

• Take the drug exactly as your doctor prescribes.
• Tell your doctor about any personal or family history of drug abuse or addiction; this will help them prescribe the medicines that will work best for you.

Don't Wait; Get Help Now

If your drug use is out of limit or any causing problems, talk to us.

Getting better from drug addiction can take time. There’s no cure but at some point, your mind and your prospective can be, but treatment can help you stop using drugs and stay drug-free. Your addiction treatment may include counselling, medicine, or both. Talk to Doctor Ashwin Shah and Doctor Kavita Shah from Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India to figure out the best plan for you.