Question About Drug Addiction. What Does It Do to Your Body and Why Is It Dangerous?
Question by Hanna: Question about drug addiction. What does it do to your body and why is it dangerous?
What exactly is the general purpose of drug addiction? what is it, what does it do to your body and why is it dangerous? What is the treatment for drug addiction? Please help me answer this question. Thank you!!
Please make your answer simple enough to understand.
Best answer:
Answer by mocca
general purpose of drug addiction:
actually these are the some components of medicinal drug, that help us to relive pain, like anti depressant,…
effect in body:
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.
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 the defining characteristic of addiction.
for treatment:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/PODAT/PODATindex.html
Add your own answer in the comments!
Brunswick drug treatment center offers addicts 'second chance'
Filed under: drug addiction treatment
Keith Amato, 35, tells his story of addiction and getting his life back together without drugs at Mid Coast Hospital's Addiction Resource Center in Brunswick in September 2012. Buy Photo. BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kenji Yamauchi woke up in a Portland …
Read more on Bangor Daily News
To Treat Drug Dependency, Doctors Are Burning Off Chunks of Addicts' Brains
Filed under: drug addiction treatment
For people combatting drug addiction and those trying to help them, the battle can be long and arduous. Right now, treating heroin or cocaine addictions involves behavioral interventions, replacement substances (such as methadone) or detoxification …
Read more on Smithsonian (blog)
More Flexibility for Take-Home Drugs to Treat Opioid Addicts
Filed under: drug addiction treatment
Under the rule change, which was issued by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and takes effect January 7, 2013, eligible patients being treated through an opioid treatment program (OTP) will be able to receive the …
Read more on Medscape
From Twitter:
Drug Addiction & Treatment: The #Toronto Psychosomatic Clinic #IBlue #ACO-1 #AwesomeTeam 2D5FCB75 – http://t.co/KgQ7wb6B – by illyria_blue (IBCS)
From Twitter:
Addiction Rehab Facilities: [Special Treatments] provide alcohol and drug treatment to those… http://t.co/fJSQSzDA – by classi4us (Free Classifieds USA)
From Twitter:
Drug And Alcohol Detox | The First Step In Recovery From Addiction | Pathways Recovery | http://t.co/yDCQAmZH via @sactreatment – by sactreatment (Pathways Recovery)