Four Things to Know About Addiction

In the past few decades, limited research and resources influenced people into believing addiction could easily be overcome if an addict simply “said no” to drugs and alcohol. In today’s society, we know that addiction is classified as a “disease of the brain” rather than a recreational hobby. In order to better understand addiction, one must consider four key components: 

Genetics:

The National Association for Children of Alcoholics warns that not only are children of alcoholics 8 times likelier to develop alcoholism , but they are more likely to choose a partner who is also an alcoholic, which ultimately leads to alcoholic offspring. Furthermore, males are 4 times likelier to develop alcoholism than females are.

Biology:
Just as genetics plays an important role in alcoholism, so does brain chemistry. There are many addicts, who will give priority to alcohol and other substances and eventually neglect their spouses and children, all because their bodies were intensely “craving” the substance. These substances ultimately change the chemistry of the brain once they enter the body and researchers across the world believe they will soon be able to identify why the changes occur and how reverse them. 

Self-Motivation:

A peer reviewed journal known as “Health Psychology” will soon publish an article on how brain scans can predict just how motivated addicts are to overcome their addiction.

Learning to Take Personal Responsibility:

Many addicts blame their social status, living conditions, souses and families for their addiction and often feel “victimized” by society. Addicts must learn how to change their outlook on life by choosing better friends, healthier lifestyles and by mending broken relationship with loved-ones.
 
Because drug addiction as well as alcohol addiction, have so many dimensions and disrupt so many aspects of an individual's life, addiction treatment is not simple. Effective addiction treatment programs incorporate many components, each directed to a particular aspect of the illness and its consequences. Addiction treatment must help the individual stop using drugs (interventions), maintain a drug-free lifestyle, and achieve productive functioning in the family, at work, and in society. Because addiction is typically a chronic disease, people cannot simply stop using drugs or alcohol for a few days and be cured. Most patients addicted to drugs and alcohol require long-term or repeated episodes of care to achieve the ultimate goal of sustained abstinence of drug and alcohol, and recovery of their lives.

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Substance Abuse Treatment Can Include Behavioral Therapy, Medications, or their Combination

There are many addictive drugs, and treatments for specific drugs can differ. Treatment also varies depending on the characteristics of the patient.

Problems associated with an individual's drug addiction can vary significantly. People who are addicted to drugs come from all walks of life. Many suffer from mental health, occupational, health, or social problems that make their addictive disorders much more difficult to treat. Even if there are few associated problems, the severity of addiction itself ranges widely among people.

A variety of scientifically based approaches to drug addiction treatment exists. Drug addiction treatment can include behavioral therapy (such as counseling, cognitive therapy, or psychotherapy), medications, or their combination. Behavioral therapies offer people strategies for coping with their drug cravings, teach them ways to avoid drugs and prevent relapse, and help them deal with relapse if it occurs. When a person's drug-related behavior places him or her at higher risk for AIDS or other infectious diseases, behavioral therapies can also help to reduce the risk of disease transmission. Case management and referral to other medical, psychological, and social services are crucial components of treatment for many patients. The best addiction treatment programs provide a combination of therapies and other services to meet the needs of the individual patient, which are shaped by such issues as age, race, culture, sexual orientation, gender, pregnancy, parenting, housing, and employment, as well as physical and sexual abuse.

Drug addiction treatment can include behavioral therapy, medications, or their combination. Treatment medications, such as methadone, LAAM, and naltrexone, are available for individuals addicted to opiates.

Medications, such as antidepressants, mood stabilizers, or neuroleptics, may be critical for treatment success when patients have co-occurring mental disorders, such as depression, anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, or psychosis.

Treatment can occur in a variety of settings, in many different forms, and for different lengths of time. Because drug addiction is typically a chronic disorder characterized by occasional relapses, a short-term, one-time treatment often is not sufficient. For many, treatment is a long-term process and it might involve multiple interventions and attempts at abstinence.

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Why Can't Drug Addicts Quit On Their Own?

Nearly all addicted individuals believe in the beginning that they can stop using drugs on their own, and most try to stop without treatment. However, most of these attempts result in failure to achieve long-term abstinence. Research has shown that long-term drug use results in significant changes in brain function that persist long after the individual stops using drugs. These drug-induced changes in brain function may have many behavioral consequences, including the compulsion to use drugs despite adverse consequences. This is the defining characteristic of addiction.

Long-term drug use results in significant changes in brain function that persist long after the individual stops using drugs. Understanding that addiction has such an important biological component may help explain an individual's difficulty in achieving and maintaining abstinence without treatment. Psychological stress from work or family problems, social cues (such as meeting individuals from one's drug-using past), or the environment (such as encountering streets, objects, or even smells associated with drug use) can interact with biological factors to hinder attainment of sustained abstinence and make relapse more likely. Research studies indicate that even the most severely addicted individuals can participate actively in treatment and that active participation is essential to good outcomes.

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Comorbidity Discussions in the Addiction and Mental Health Circles

An important topic of discussions among Patients, families and healthcare professionals has been comorbidity of ADHD and drug abuse and the causes of each and their effects on each other. Comorbidity is described as when two disorders or illnesses occur in the same person, simultaneously or sequentially. Also, interactions between the illnesses that affect the course and prognosis of two simultaneous or sequential disorders also are described as comorbidity.

It has been known for years that there is co-occurring illnesses with drug addiction. In many cases drug and alcohol addicts suffer from HIV, hepatitis C, cardiovascular disease and even cancer. It is not to say that drug addiction or alcoholism brings about, for example, HIV. But the fact that HIV is present in many hardcore drug addicts and abusers compels the health care professional to look for the other when one of these illnesses is present.

NIDA has put disease comorbidity on its top research priority, hoping to provide the needed information to states and the science community in general. In one report, NIDA has specifically focused on comorbidity of drug use disorders (abuse or dependence) and other mental illnesses.

One such area that the presence of comorbidity has been documented is in the sequential occurrence of childhood ADHD and the presence of drug abuse later in life. Even though studies have pointed to comorbidity of childhood ADHD and drug abuse, many suggest that only a subset of children with ADHD will develop drug addiction in later life.

In order to highlight the importance of understanding comorbidity, one can point to the fact that, for example, once comorbidity between ADHD and drug use disorders is established, then the next step could be determining if  effective treatment of ADHD at childhood will result in prevention of subsequent drug abuse and its associated behavioral problems later in life.

Another benefit in understanding illnesses comorbidity is answering the question of whether high prevalence of comorbidity between two disorders means that one caused the other, even if one appeared first. In case of drug abuse and ADHD, it was proven that neither is the cause of the other.

Another example is comorbid drug use disorder and mental illness. Once this relation was established, the drug and alcohol treatment centers included both disorders in their treatment plans.

In conclusion, understanding the comorbidity of diseases such as addiction and mental health issues provide us with important clues to understand those diseases and to make advances in treating them.

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Fake Pot - K2 Will Be Finally Banned in US for a Year

On November 24, 2010, Drug Enforcement Administration officials, finally imposed a nationwide ban to the "legal weed", K2, due to the alarming rise in reported abuse. Also known as Spice the herbal blend has been sold in small, silvery plastic bags of dried leaves and marketed as incense that can be smoked. Easy available at convenience stores and specialty shops K2 mimics the effects of marijuana and has gained alarming popularity for such copycat abilities.

The ban is to take effect in the next 30 days or so and it will make illegal for at least a year to sell or possess products containing the five chemicals found in K2. Some 15 states already have banned some or all "legal high" products. When the waiting period expires, sale or possession of the substances will be a federal crime.

"Legal high" products claim to be mixtures of herbs that can be smoked for a psychedelic effect. But the herbs listed on the package label often are missing from the actual product. Instead, the product contains a leafy mixture that is spiked with a designer drug -- usually one of the five drugs listed by the DEA. The same product often is spiked with different doses of different drugs, making it impossible for users to know what they are taking.

Unlike cannabis, which has been used by humans for millennia, the new synthetic marijuana have never been tested in humans.
Street Names: Bliss, Black Mamba, Bombay Blue, Fake Weed, Genie, Nice, Guy, Oasis, Spice, Zohai

Ingredients: Beach Bean, White and Blue Water Lily, Rosehip, Blue Lotus

Mean Chemical Ingredient: JWH-018

Methods of AbuseK2 products are usually smoked in joints or pipes, but some users make it into a tea.

Effect on the MindPsychological effects are similar to those of marijuana and include paranoia, panic attacks, and giddiness.

Effect on the BodyPhysiological effects of K2 include increased heart rate and increase of blood pressure. It appears to be stored in the body for long periods of time, and therefore the long-term effects on humans are not fully known.

K2  has become a highly problematic substance among young adults.

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How Do Drugs Work in the Brain?

Drugs tap into the brain's communication system and disrupt the way nerve cells normally send, receive, and process information.

Drugs work in the brain by:
Imitating natural neurotransmitters (chemical messengers in the brain). Because of the similarity in chemical structure between drugs and neurotransmitters naturally produced by the brain, some drugs, such as marijuana and heroin, are able to "fool" the brain's receptors and activate nerve cells to send abnormal messages via the network.

Overstimulating the reward system by flooding the circuit with dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter present in regions of the brain that regulate movement, emotion, motivation, and feelings of pleasure. And nearly all drugs of abuse, directly or indirectly, activate this system. Some drugs, particularly stimulants like methamphetamine and cocaine, cause nerve cells to release abnormally large amounts of natural neurotransmitters or prevent their normal recycling, which is needed to shut off the signal between neurons.

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Drug Addiction is a Disease

We have heard it, read it, and may even told others this fact. But do the majority of people really believe this? I am not talking about those who are addicted to drugs or alcohol, but the general public with no addiction problem.

It seems that more people are grasping the idea that drug addiction is a disease as there has been an increase in getting people involved and educating them by presenting studies done throughout the years supporting this fact.

Recently there was a conference in Pikeville College in Pikeville, Kentucky on drug addiction and the way it should be treated. More than one hundred people, including teachers, students and the general public, attended this event to learn about drug addiction as a disease. The presentation was put on by UNITE Pike, the Substance Abuse Task Force and Pikeville Medical Center. The focus was on drug addiction as a disease.

Samantha Saracino, a reporter writing for Wymtnews.com, wrote “it is no secret that drug addiction is a problem in this area, but after listening to the presentation, people learned that it is a problem everywhere and it is something that needs to be treated in a specific way.”

It was obvious based on her report that the consensus among all who attended was that the education was necessary and useful in giving them direction on how to fight drug addiction problem in the community.

Barry Chaney, UNITE Pike Chairperson was concerned about the fact that there are still many who are struggling with drug and alcohol addiction and hide their addiction thinking it is a moral deficiency as opposed to a disease which it truly is.

A teacher attending the conference emphasized the importance of events like that one for those interacting with children. Mich Justice who teaches at Belfry High School was satisfied that these educational events prepares teachers to recognize teens involved with drug abuse, how to deal with it and how to do their part to prevent it.

But one important comment came from one of the speakers at the event, Dr. Burns M. Brady, who said: "Wrong explanations, so many wrong treatments, so many things that don't work. It's an extremely prevalent problem and we've really garbled some of the best treatment and explanation for the problem."

There is merit in what Dr. Brady said. There are many drug rehabilitation facilities in America. Drug rehab facilities do not provide the same treatment program for addicts.

As far as finding a treatment facility is concerned, it is important for anyone looking for drug rehabilitation facilities to do his or her homework and find the facility based on research.

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Prescription Drugs - Risky Addiction

We have all heard that drugs are dangerous and risky. That addiction can ruin lives. Yet with all of the facts that adults hear over the years, many adults still choose to use drugs becoming victims of addiction. Prescription drug abuse is becoming a staple of our society causing serious problems which starts with addiction leading many times to overdosing and death.

Last month a government study reported that the share of substance abuse treatment admissions involving prescription medication abuse, increased in the last ten years from 2.2 percent to 10 percent, with the proportion of the admissions for street drugs such as heroin, PCP, and cocaine, decreasing. A second study reported that emergency room visits for nonmedical use of prescription narcotics jumped by 111 percent over the same time period, accounting for 305,885 visits. According to a director of applied studies for substance abuse found that nearly everyone is equally at risk for addiction. Race and age were not factors, although there is a higher concern for younger people; reporting that about fourteen percent of those aged 18-24 and 25-34 sought treatment for prescription pain medication abuse. This is about a two percent increase over the last decade.

So why has there been an increase trend in abusing prescription drugs? It is because people believe that prescriptions are safer than street drugs because they come from a doctor. However, this is a distorted view; prescription drugs are more potent and are just as dangerous and addicting as heroin when used outside their prescribed purpose. Also the availability and accessibility of prescription drugs contributes to the increase abuse of them. Over the last twenty years prescriptions for opiates in the US have gone from forty million to one hundred and eighty million. Prescription drugs are being obtained from friends, family, medicine cabinets, drug dealers on the street, the internet and doctors.  People who want prescription drugs because they are addicted, doctor shop, in order to find a doctor who will prescribe the unnecessary prescriptions to them.

Drugs in general are highly addictive and addiction is a medical condition. A user is trying to achieve the same high that they felt on their first use. However, a user can never get the same high. It only takes one use of a drug to become addicted. It only takes one use to overdose or die. Like all medical conditions, treatment is necessary.

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Predicting Factors of Addiction

Drugs were originally made to benefit the public by improving human health; introducing the notion of modern medicine. However, there is a side effect of having this new form of modernism that was not foreseen: abuse of prescription drugs. When these prescription medicines are used improperly they cause problems for the drug user and society.

So what causes someone to become addicted?

The answer is complex just like the causes that contribute to drug addiction. Some causes are still unknown and unclear. Some factors of drug addiction are known, such as your environment, heredity, and biochemical reactions inside your brain. Repeated drug use, usually for drugs that are easy to get a hold of like prescription drugs, causes the user to become dependent, addicted. Tolerance to these drugs plays a large role and constitutes physical dependency. To feel the same effect of the drug, the drug user has to take larger amounts each time. When an addiction cannot be controlled and the drug abuser cannot get a hold of the drug, they will experience what is known as withdrawal symptoms. When there is no physical dependency, there can a psychological dependency on the drugs, especially with drugs such as marijuana. The drug user will develop an emotional compulsive need to get a hold of the drug. Addiction is usually defined by a combination of compulsion to use the drugs and being preoccupied to get the substances.

All of this talk of physical and psychological dependency leads to try to uncover the truth of the rumor of an addictive personality. The truth is that drug addiction can be genetically inherited. The theory is that a person most likely inherited several factors that increase their risk for drug addiction to occur. Psychological and environmental aspects also play a part in the addiction. Some of these factors that can cause someone to use drugs are stress, anxiety, family disorders, lack of self-esteem, peer and social pressures, and bad living conditions.
 
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Drug Rehab in Massachusetts

Drug and Alcohol Rehab in Massachusetts, the Cove Center for Recovery is a nationally recognized addiction treatment Center working with adults and young adults suffering from addictions and other destructive behaviors.

The Cove Center - Addiction Treatment Centers in Massachusetts, encourages clients to leave their everyday lifestyle by immersing themselves in a new and different environment during the addiction treatment process. The Cove is known for a unique approach to "Real Life" Treatment and Recovery.

Cove Center for Recovery, MA includes a mix of both inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment programs, to meet our clients specific “Goals of Treatment” which are identified during their assessment with our Client Liaison Team. Intensive Outpatient Addiction Treatment incorporates the comprehensive addiction treatment program and "Real Life" approach to recovery in a flexible therapeutic schedule.

When our Massachusetts addiction treatment specialists makes a recommendation on individualized addiction treatment programs, we recognize that in most cases, an addiction or mood disorder isn’t the only issue. For example, someone with depression may also be battling a co-occurring addiction such as alcoholism. Tackling multiple issues requires a more comprehensive strategy than tackling one issue alone, and will be accommodated in the suggested addiction treatment program.

Our aim is to treat the whole person, and not just an isolated symptom. During addiction treatment we will work with the client to identify the factors that may have contributed to their addiction or disorder – home, work, relationships and medical history. We also believe that families have a vital role to play in the recovery process, and each program has a place for family participation, to educate them in the addiction treatment process and to equip them for their role as supporters.


Addiction Treatment Center in Massachusetts Provides: Interventions, Mental Health Treatment, Dual Diagnosis Treatment, Gambling Addiction Treatment, Eating Disorders Treatment, Court Ordered Rehabilitation and Suboxone Treatment.

Drug Rehab Therapy Programs in Massachusetts Includes: Psychotherapy, Trauma Therapy, Co-Dependency Therapy, Art Therapy, Music Therapy, Recreational Activities (Sober Fun), Relapse Prevention, Family and Group Therapies.

Interventions are necessary for individuals who are unable or unwilling to recognize the need for help. Interventionists assist families in confronting and guiding their loved one to recognize the signs and symptoms of addiction and the need for change. Credentialed and experienced Interventionists are available to assist individuals and family members.

Cove Residence - Addiction Treatment Center in Massachusetts, is a simulated "home-life" environment, supervised by trained professionals, in which daily life experiences occur.
Sober Fun activities may include bowling, movies, beach outings and barbeques, AA and/or NA conventions and events. Premier activities are scheduled monthly, which may include snorkeling, fishing, excursions on a glass bottom boat, airboat tours, or a trip to the Everglades.

Addiction Treatment - After Care
The Cove Center – Massachusetts Addiction Treatment Center, prepares each person for a successful recovery with an aftercare program that includes a support system, AA or NA meetings and personal accountability. Intensive Outpatient or Outpatient Addiction Treatment may be recommended upon successful completion of the program.

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