When we speak of addiction as substance addiction.
Heroin addiction is a problem that causes great alarm.
It is considered drug addiction as a disease and not going away because:
is good business
Many people cannot live without drugs
The drug has been around since man exists.
Many addicts do not realize that addiction is harmful.
Amphetamines, cocaine and cannabis drugs are called traitors because not warn of brain damage.
In the case of heroin is two days to addiction.
Stereotypical notion of effect: People take drugs because you need to change your state of consciousness. Each drug has its primary effect may be modified by each person’s individual variables.
Drug addiction is the result of a triple-action system:
- Chemically
own person (character, way of being …)
social level (social context family, community, education …)
A drug not only has major effects on the physical level is also important effect on the social level, family, school, society.
Psychopharmacological parameters:
Injection: subcutaneous, intravenous and intramuscular instant effect
snorting (heroin)
smoked and inhaled (cannabis, heroin, cocaine …)
eaten, swallowed rectal
ABSORPTION: because it runs from its point of introduction DISTRIBUTION drug is distributed as between the various parts of the driven and operates in the body
DISSOLUTION neutralization or metabolic process.
The doses are very important in consumption and addiction.
The word comes from the drug addict = slavery chronic state of intoxication or regular consumption generated by a natural or synthetic drugs.
Features:
invincible desire to continue taking drug and take it by all means to increase the dose trend (tendency to tolerance)
physical and psychological dependence to the effects of the drug
Adverse effects for him and his social environment.
Habituation:
Results of repeated consumption of a drug. Features:
compulsive desire not to take the drug for its pleasurable effect little tendency to increase dose
Some psychic dependence but no physical type. Only harmful to the individual and not for society.
Medicines, drugs:
A substance introduced into the organism may modify one or more of its functions.
Drugs causing dependence: is one that can produce a living organism in a state of physical dependence, psychological or both.
Abuse:
Persistent or sporadic excessive use that is inconsistent with the use medically acceptable.
Tags: Amphetamine, Cannabis, Cocaine, Drug, Drug Addiction
