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Cannabis

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

Cannabis

Is a drug that is extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, resin was removed, leaves, stems, flowers and consumed illegal drugs are produced throughout the world, hashish and marijuana. These preparations are consumed smoked in a cigarette that goes by many names among adolescents: joint, spliff, peta, joint. Less commonly smoked in pipes or consumed directly, the effects may last two to three hours.

Its main asset is known as the HTC (tetrahydrocannabinol) has an active life within an organism than a week, indicating that is not removed quickly from the body and if you smoke each week, the substance accumulates in the brain causing severe damage .

Consuming cannabis may feel a pleasurable effect that large doses can be transformed into anxiety disorders and produces the “cannabis drunkenness,” featuring dry mouth, eye redness, tachycardia, uncoordinated movements, uncontrolled laughter and drowsiness.

Symptoms of cannabis abuse and dependence are: abandonment of non-consumers group of friends, lack of interest in activities unrelated to consumption, compulsive use and concern about cannabis have problems, school or work performance.

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Alcohol

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Alcohol

Drug is a central nervous system depressant that gradually inhibits the functions of the brain, affecting self-control and producing euphoria and disinhibition, as can be confused with a stimulant.

Alcohol in excess can cause short-term effects such as alcohol poisoning, coma and even cause death, also contributes to risk behaviors, and alcohol inhibitions and causes a false sense security is therefore related to accidents Traffic and labor. In the long term as well as causing social and family conflicts, the health of an alcoholic is deteriorating rapidly, may have hypertension, gastritis, liver cirrhosis, heart disease, cancer, aggression and psychosis and other illnesses.

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Detoxification and cessation of heroin

Monday, March 29th, 2010

withdrawalWhen 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. (more…)

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Neuronal Recovery in Drug Treatment Benzodiazepines

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Benzodiazepines

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. (more…)

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Drug Neuroregulacion Benzodiazepines Treatment

Monday, March 1st, 2010

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. (more…)

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Cocaine consuming very Bad for Your Health

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Cocaine consuming very Bad for Your Health. It works the same way as heroin and nicotine on naturally in the brain reward (dopamine) channels. The entertainment experience every time and take a clear lack of desire, or even disappear, which reinforces the obligation more.

Cocaine is a drug that makes you confident, talkative, alert, good draw for those who find it difficult, in this way is usually the feeling. However, because the drug decreases, rapidly associated with depression, anxiety and irritability with the of version. (more…)

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