Drug Neuroregulacion Benzodiazepines Treatment
But the reality is that addiction, beyond the decision and will, is a condition beyond the control of the addict. The step of initiating drug treatment often does not arise on its own initiative, because with prolonged use of drugs or alcohol, the brain undergoes biochemical changes that alter behavior, thoughts and feelings of consumers, and producing, among other things, a compulsive, uncontrollable desire to consume drugs. This implies that the addict can hardly control the desire product of brain damage caused by drugs, and are associated with loss of ability to self-assess the damage that is causing consumption and to guide their behavior toward the abandonment of the abuse of drugs.
Thus, addiction is a brain disease. A disease that is treatable and that no recovery. Today, thanks to research and new technologies, more and more is known about how drugs act in the brain and the effects they produce, allowing them to develop drug treatments and appropriate drugs for the addict to regain control of their lives.
The treatment of benzodiazepine drugs begins with a diagnosis that includes the assessment of the biological, social and psychological factors that interact in each person’s disease, and involves examinations and medical and psychological analysis. After diagnosis and design process to follow, treatment involves detoxification.
But here it is important to note that detoxification can be understood in different ways. In the traditional drug treatment, detoxification centers on control of the most visible symptoms of addiction, i.e., in controlling withdrawal symptoms. In this view, treat addiction means only cleanse the body of the drug.
However, detoxification, as understood in advanced treatments of addiction, involves not only the elimination of withdrawal symptoms, but also fundamentally and recovery of brain damage caused by drugs or alcohol, and of cognitive and affective unaltered. From this second viewpoint, rather than speaking of detoxification is to talk about neuroregulation, i.e. treat addiction means cleaning the body and repair the brain damage that addiction has caused.
These two understandings of addiction recovery can be illustrated as well. When a person breaks a bone, that is, suffering a fracture, it can treat pain, make it go away, but that does not mean it has healed if both the bone is not repaired to recover its functionality.
This does not mean that is not important to treat withdrawal symptoms when you stop using drugs or alcohol, which in fact, the withdrawal is a challenge and an obstacle to recovery from addiction. A syndrome that occurs because the body has become accustomed to the presence of drugs (you have become dependent) and the brain stops producing natural chemicals that replaces drug. That is, the body depends on the drug to function “normally”, so when you stop consuming the drug after a prolonged period of consumption, the agency has neither the natural chemicals that have stopped producing, or with the substitute chemical that is drug and, therefore, remains unchanged. Some alterations that symptoms are experienced as opposed to the effects of the drug, with great discomfort, and only disappear if no adequate drug treatment, when it gets to consume. In fact, the withdrawal becomes the biggest fear when you want to stop using drugs, as well as the main risk of relapse, the need to alleviate the discomfort that causes the withdrawal.