Drug dependence: causes, types, signs and treatment

Dissatisfaction with life, with oneself, craving for "adventures", aimlessness of being in this world, susceptibility to "blows" and the general mood of the company in which it is accepted to take narcotic drugs leads to the fact that a person tries a drug.

Regularity of drug use, in turn, forms a drug addiction.

Reasons for

The main cause of drug addiction is dissatisfaction with what is. A person may not feel comfort, sense in life, this is his and pushes to try something that can diversify his routine, even if in the form of illusion and hallucination. And so, there are brief moments of artificial happiness, pulling for themselves pain, fatigue, weakness in the whole body and quickly formed pathological dependence on drugs.

The cause of drug addiction is also common - inadequate upbringing in the family, when a child can stagger around the streets and gates all day without a cause. The child finds the company, where he gets the opportunity to try his first drug dose. The family, at the same time, can be both prosperous and unsuccessful. Absence or inferiority of the control of children by parents did not lead to anything good.

Types of drug dependence

It is expressed in two aspects: physiological and psychological. Both sides, or the kinds of drug dependence work in full.

Psychological dependence on a narcotic substance is manifested in the regular( constant) painful aspiration of a drug addict to suppress internal psychological discomfort by using a drug, thus causing a rush of euphoria, pleasant sensations. At the present time, synthetic drugs have been created that can call addiction to drugs after a single use. In other words, a narcotically sick person strives to change his perception, consciousness, feelings and sensations in order to obtain an artificial sense of happiness. Attraction is pathological, absolutely abnormal. Let's talk about drives.

The stronger the drug dependence is formed, the worse it erases the person's entire life, all his past hobbies and interests, she builds on the pedestal of the ideal of desire - a drug.

If the 's psychic attraction to drugs is characterized by a constant mood of thoughts about drug use, a low mood background( because it's not easy to get), or mood elevation( if the drug is available), compulsive drive for is characterized by an irresistible thirst for narcotization, totallyembracing all thoughts, feelings of a sick person - a drug addict.

Physical addiction appears when the body regularly receives a drug, it is built into the body's metabolism and takes part in its functions. Physical dependence is accompanied by incredibly pronounced deviations from the body and the psyche, if the narcotic substance is not injected into the blood in time. Scientifically, physiological and psychological dependence is called abstinence syndrome. To stop the withdrawal syndrome is possible only with a narcotic drug( which drug addicts do, while narcotics continue) or treat drug addiction in the inpatient settings of a narcological clinic with the use of detoxification therapy and other methods.

Narcotic substances from different groups, depending on the drug in different ways and in different degrees of severity. Not all kinds of drugs cause strong addiction.

Opioids are highly addictive;methadone, meliridine, promedol, omnopon, heroin;hemp means - hashish and its oil;preparations from ephedrine - pervitin, ephedrine;cocaine;amfepramone;amphetamine, methamphetamine;methylphenidate;phenmetrazine;ecstasy, fentanyl and so on.

You've probably heard about tolerance. Drug addicts also observe this phenomenon. With the systematic use of the drug, a single dose increases, because there is no satisfaction with the old dose, which was at the beginning of the narcotic "experience".

Signs of drug dependence

There are external signs of a drug addict with a certain "experience":

1. Unkempt clothing, not grooming.
2. The look and look.
3. Stoop.
4. Narrow or wide pupils, regardless of the light.
5. The speech is indistinct and slow.
6. Movement is not quite coordinated and slowed down.
7. Irritability, passivity, laziness.
8. On clothes long sleeves for hiding places of injections.
9. From injections, traces can sometimes be seen on the back of the hands, under the tongue. Traces from the injections - bluish purple.

The pathological predilection of a person for narcotic substances on indirect grounds is easier for those who have already had experience of communication with such a contingent of individuals.

Pay attention to the following life changes in the adolescent, if suddenly he fell into bad influence and there is a risk of starting his addict's "experience":

1. The desire for care from home and increased secrecy.
2. Sleep disturbance, later falling asleep and awakening.
3. Truancy of lessons for no reason, loss of interest in your favorite classes and study.
4. Decline in school performance.
5. The need for money, the loss of money from parents, as well as valuable things disappear from home.
6. The emergence of new unreliable buddies.
7. Signs of intoxication without the smell of fumes.
8. Very unstable mood, rapid changes in the direction of irritability.
9. traces from injections on the inner elbow of the arm.

Treatment of drug dependence

If a close person has hooked on drugs, you need to find out, acknowledge as a fact and immediately solve this unfavorable life situation. It is impossible to solve this problem independently. Only narcologists and psychotherapists can render correct help.

When the patient wants to be cured, effective treatment of drug dependence is possible. And it is carried out, it must, in a narcological clinic.

Treatment of drug addiction - a set of measures. Treatment begins with the elimination of physical dependence on the drug. Detoxification stops abstinence syndrome. Psychotherapy works with mental dependence. Further, they are engaged in social adaptation of the patient.

Four stages in the treatment of drug dependence:

The first stage is to stop the abstinence syndrome using detoxification methods to eliminate somatoneurological disorders in the body and to correct mental disorders.

At the second stage they try to restore the organism in the most complete form from metabolic and psychotic reactions of the patient, improve his sleep.

In the third stage they work with the syndrome of mental drug dependence, analyze the signs and symptoms of attraction to the narcotic substance.

At the fourth stage, predict the possibility of recurrence of the disease and prescribe a course of maintenance therapy.

To get rid of drug addiction

Despite the expression "there are no former drug addicts", through a healthy lifestyle, ordering of the thinking mode, development of aspiration to the discovery of a new world in which there are so many useful and interesting things, one can achieve constant narcotic remission.

A former patient should accept himself as he is, with all the flaws and virtues. Do not renounce drugs, you must choose a way of life that excludes them, forget about them, do not remember and do not want the same artificial narcotic happiness.

The key to getting rid of drug dependence lies in so complete a switch to a new way of life that a person becomes free of his narcotic past.

After the treatment, adaptation and rehabilitation for myself remember that the former alcoholics and drug addicts do not. And under no circumstances should you use narcotic drugs.

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