Preventing Drug Abuse
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Guidance for parents :
1. It’s good to talk to children about snuff, alcohol and other drugs.
You may find they have misconceptions and misconceptions about the properties of drugs. You can help their children have adequate information.
2. It’s really great to listen to children.
Children can speak better on a topic with parents who are good listeners. [...]
Drug Addiction
Thursday, March 4th, 2010They are known as such addictions to various toxic substances, which produce multiple adverse health effects, both physical and psychological, family and social serious repercussions.
1. What is addiction?
Substance abuse or addiction is a chronic primary disease process, infectious and progressive. It causes serious problems not only for the youth concerned but also for the family [...]
Concepts And Definitions In Drugs Addiction part 2
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010From the previous article :Concepts And Definitions In Drugs Addiction
Psychic dependence:
Tendency to use an agent because its effects are a source of pleasure or satisfaction (skiing, watching TV, drugs …). We realize this dependency when we removed that agent. The dependence of pleasure and affection are different concepts.
The junkie is very strong psychological [...]
Concepts And Definitions In Drugs Addiction
Monday, February 8th, 2010When 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.
Addiction is an Illness
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Addiction is considered a disease, and you cure a disease. But the scientific substantiation of this idea is highly questionable. And the effectiveness of drug services is not established. The addiction can better dispense with the concept of disease and to promote policies that deal with the problem.
The British author and psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple in [...]
The Abuse of Drugs and Addiction
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Drug Abuse: the habitual use of drugs to alter mood, emotion, or state of consciousness, excessive use of drugs
Addiction: Compulsive physiological and psychological need for a habit forming substance
The drug abuse and addiction is a serious problem facing many people today. Although no one knows why some people turn to drugs, there are other reasons [...]
Results with a vaccine for cocaine addiction
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, USA, have developed a vaccine that helps block the sensation generated by cocaine use by 38 per cent of people who took it, as published in its latest issue the magazine ‘ Archives of General Psychiatry, thereby opening a new hope in the treatment of addiction to [...]
The concept of addiction
Saturday, January 9th, 2010One might think that the concept of addiction is as old as time. Not so: the idea is relatively recent – and those who have defended always were driven by political or moral. The modern version of the concept was invented in the eighteenth by the physician Benjamin Rush, with his friends in the anti-alcohol, [...]
Ending the addiction
Thursday, January 7th, 2010Do we really need rehab centers for people who spend too much time online or in stores?
Like smoking crack pulling desperately on their pipes broken, we are, lately, all become drug addicts in need. Our drugs? Addiction. The concept is certainly not new: it already has hundreds of years. He then described the compulsive consumption [...]
Drug Treatment Without Abstinence Syndrome
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009The drug addiction is a serious health problem which however does not always treated, with consequent implications for the health of addicts, suffering in their family environment and social risks in educational settings and youth, the associated violence, or costs in public health related diseases by failing to act appropriately against drug addiction.
