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Addictions in general are a widespread problem and that plagues all social groups without distinction of any kind. The struggle against addiction equals a war for the multiple realities that are lived. We should all collaborate on it.

What is cocaine?
Cocaine is a white powder, which is derived from the coca plant, whose plants are grown mostly in South America. It stimulates the nervous system and suppresses hunger, leading to different actions in the body system. · Can snorted, taken orally, smoked or injected. Then there’s the crack cocaine or crystal as free base.

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The first and fundamental step in a possible drug treatment lies in the awareness by the individual addict.

By accepting the problem is that you can follow the path of detoxification and rehabilitation of the patient, if more than acceptance, there is a readiness and willingness to solve it.

The next step in the process, then the addict is willing to treatment is one of the toughest for the patient. This instance is the detoxification stage, where they have to cope with withdrawal symptoms.

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Any type of treatment for drug addiction, has a starting point that will give way to later rehabilitation process.

This rehabilitation process has obvious difficulties for the addict, which must be overcome with will and strength as well as containment by family and friends.

You could say that detoxification is the first major obstacle that must traverse the addicted, and then continue with the process of particular treatments.

Anyway, we can also mention a time prior to the detoxification itself can also be considered fundamental in any treatment.

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Any treatment for addiction to drugs, has a starting point that will give way to later rehabilitation process. This rehabilitation process has obvious difficulties for the addict, which must be overcome with will and strength, in addition to containment by family and friends.

You could say that detoxification is the first major obstacle that must traverse the addict, and then continue with the process of particular treatments. Anyway, we can also cite a time prior to the detox itself, which can also be considered as fundamental in any treatment.

This point is the awareness by the individual affected by dependence. Any treatment must pass through this point, if one wants to reach a successful conclusion. With the acceptance of their situation by the addict, and the will to overcome the problem, the next step is detoxification.

Detoxification and Rehabilitation
The stage of detoxification is, as mentioned previously, the most complicated step for the addict, after the first and fundamental point of departure, the acceptance of dependency, awareness and determination to overcome it.

In the stage of detoxification has traits more difficult to overcome. The withdrawal syndrome is often the reason why the consumer becomes addicted. The discomfort and pain are common statements at this stage, so it will be important medical supervision as needed to pass medications.

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Inpatient rehabilitation of drug addicts first will include detoxification, with or without the use of sedatives and pain medication; their inclusion will depend both on whether the system of addicts who can handle chemicals and whether they believe the program will run “cold turkey” when the withdrawal is the best substance abuse prevention for the future.

Once detoxification is completed, the addicts will spend their days learning to take responsibility with a job assigned to them; will be individual and group counseling sessions, and get at the underlying emotional causes of their dependency. This process can last for one month for a year, depending on the severity of addiction. Inpatient rehabilitation of drug addiction is a last resort.

Therapeutic technique in the inpatient facility may include journaling so that addicts can learn both self-observation skills and how to recognize situations where their desire for drugs is triggered.

When addiction or dependence occur before a drug or synthetic chemical characteristics, the stage of detoxification has strong barriers that impede the process. The forms of interruption or detoxification of heroin, morphine, codeine or methadone, all opium-derived substances may be using the full stop drug consumption, or through a process of decreasing the dose gradually until achieve the cessation of use.

The main obstacle, in which most consumers can not stop the drug, or by which many consumers culminate by becoming addicted, the withdrawal syndrome. Any addictive substance, occurs when consumption is stopped, withdrawal.

As withdrawal is known to all the symptoms and effects produced by the body accustomed to a substance, when consumption slows it. These symptoms are the leading consumers to the need to eat again, a matter of avoiding them. Read the rest of this entry »

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But beyond detoxification or withdrawal of the drug in the body, is necessary to recover the brain areas that were damaged by addiction, i.e, it is necessary to have a neuronal recovery. The “traditional” methods drug treatment only serve to cleanse (detoxify) the body controlling the symptoms of withdrawal, but not restore these brain areas in which the drug has caused neurochemical changes, with the additional risk that this type of detoxification can mask symptoms of brain damage.

This neuronal recovery is done today by means of an advanced pharmacological intervention conducted by professionals from medicine, psychology and nursing and continuous monitoring of the patient in a hospital setting. Through a process of neuro-adaptation, we act on brain receptors, and in systems and structures as the route that connects the midbrain ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens, basal ganglia, structures that are also associated with withdrawal, by that, by intervening in the recovery of these areas, it prevents the emergence of withdrawal symptoms. So on the one hand, the recovery of brain structures allows the elimination of withdrawal symptoms and allows the craving disappears, the irrepressible desire to use drugs. On the other hand, this intervention, to restore brain functions affected by the drug, makes you restore advanced processes of cognition and emotion, as the attention span, ability to read, consciousness or serenity. Read the rest of this entry »