Addiction - Abuse
Drug
abuse occurs with any use of illegal substances and also occurs when
prescription drugs are taken in excess of recommended dosages or for longer than prescribed.
Addiction is the inevitable next step forward if drug
abuse is not handled.
Addiction is the compulsive seeking and use of drugs or alcohol despite adverse social, mental, and physical consequences.
At this point the abuse of drugs goes beyond just impacting the individual and is severely impacting family, loved ones, finances and careers.
When the individual moves from abuse to
addiction the
drug use controls the individual rather than the individual controlling the usage.
Drug Rehab Information By State
What exactly do we mean when we say
rehab program?
Well, rehabilitate means to restore to or improve a previous condition.
A program is a series of steps to bring about a desired result.
So an effective
rehab program is a series of steps to bring about an improvement of the condition the person was in prior to the drug or alcohol addiction.
Simply withdrawing someone from
drug use is merely one step though an important one. Going to support groups or meetings is also a step. Here at the Narconon Arrowhead
rehab program our full
rehab program will address physical, emotional, and mental factors leading up to and then continuing addiction. The three broad categories are cravings, guilt and depression. When one is feeling better (emotionally and physically) as well as functioning better they will no longer require or crave drugs in an attempt to escape these unwanted feelings. Narconon
rehab programs rehabilitate lives so that
drug use is no longer needed or desired.
The Encarta dictionary defines drug
abuse as ‘the harmful and illegal non-medicinal use of drugs or alcohol’.
Drug
abuse usually begins in an effort to relieve some sort of pain or discomfort; this could be emotion, mental, or physical.
Many drugs do this, but only temporarily and generally when the drug wears off the pains and discomforts remain, often times worsened.
Since they worked once more drugs are used in an effort to obtain further relief, and since tolerance builds up in most cases more and more of the drug or alcohol is needed.
More and more of the person’s life centers around obtaining and using drugs. The drugs and alcohol have long ceased to cure any problems and have themselves now become the problem. At this point,
drug abuse involves abuse of finances, relationships, health, career, etc. When one handles the reasons for the initial
drug abuse the need for drugs fades away.
The Narconon program, unlike more traditional alcohol
addiction treatments, deals with both the physical and mental problems brought about by drug and alcohol abuse. Our goal is to assist the addict, both mentally and physically, to become a whole and sane person capable of dealing with life's many and varied challenges without resorting to drugs or alcohol.
The end result is a success rate that shows 70% of our graduates are still drug and alcohol free two years of completing the program. None of these solutions involves the use of any additional drugs or alcohol.
There are various forms and methods of ingesting drugs and toxins. Orally, nasally, injecting, and smoking are a few of these. The effects from smoking drugs as opposed to orally ingesting them or nasally generally creates a more intense effect faster. This is one of the factors that make crack cocaine a tougher
addiction to break than powder cocaine.
Drugs like Oxycontin are often ground up and mixed with other drugs and smoked for faster more intense highs as well. Also many times the harder drugs like heroin are smoked under the misunderstanding that the risk of
addiction is lower and this is definitely not true.
Addiction is addiction, some methods of taking drugs will take you to addiction faster and with more devastating effects.
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