Drug Addiction Treatment

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The team Bonanova Center is formed by psychiatrists, psychologists and doctors with long experience in renowned centers in Barcelona. These centers are the Chiron Clinic in Barcelona, ​​Hospital General de Catalunya, Barcelona Institute of mental hospital, the European Institute of Neurosciences, Barcelona or Bonanova center of Barcelona.

Our multidisciplinary team consists of specialists in treating all types of addictive substances – cocaine, alcohol, cannabis, psychotropic drugs, etc.. – And psychiatric-psychological disorders, high severity as anorexia, depression, psychosis, etc.. From the Center believe that a correct Bonanova specialization and good teamwork help our patients to be rehabilitated as soon as possible in an appropriate and effective, and that is why we work every day to keep improving treatments and therapeutic tools psychiatric, psychological or both individual and group psychotherapy. Furthermore, the preparation of our team allows us to offer treatment to patients who wish to enter and speak in English.

From the Center we emphasize Bonanova calm and patient privacy. The clinic is equipped with modern infrastructure and is geographically located around the city of Barcelona. All this coupled with the professionalism of our team makes the patient is comfortable and the conditions necessary for the implementation of effective treatment.

Because of the euphoria created by cocaine, a drug hard to leave. In general, cocaine addicts experience the adverse health effects, ruin their economy and they see as failing all your personal relationships, family and friends, before they start looking for ways to learn how to stop using cocaine. As out of the cocaine is not easy, not just detoxification. The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that a lifestyle change is needed to complete stop using cocaine and stay off drugs.

Step 1
Be admitted to a treatment center that specializes in treating cocaine addiction. Facilities that provide rehabilitation and medical drug detox addicts provide medication to help ease the withdrawal symptoms start. Medical detoxification is one that is supervised by a health professional. They often include additional psychological treatment offered by trained therapists and usually last about a month.

Step 2
Sign up for counseling sessions to continue treatment to quit cocaine. Individual query is where the therapist and you shall speak of the consequences of drugs and what causes it to fall into drug addiction. Use individual counseling sessions to help you understand the problems that led you to cocaine first. Also to teach you how to change unhealthy thought patterns you might then pass on drugs. Think out of the cocaine and requires effort, the therapist will be a great help. Read the rest of this entry »

The consumption of psycho stimulants substance goes through different stages, it is important to note that the phases need not be consecutive.

There are 4 levels of consumption:

1 – Use or experimental stage, the spending is done generally exploratory purposes and without the intention of initiating a habit continued.

2 – Using occasional leisure and recreational or stage, is increasingly consumed more frequently, always to enjoy the desired effects and social environments prone to them, alone, in pairs, with friends, without a clear understanding of addiction.

3 – Regular use and abuse, also called loss of control stage. Over time, it increases the frequency and amount of consumption.

4 – Drug abuse or binge drinking stage, it goes so far as to change the route of administration. If earlier to snuff way, eventually you can reach intravenously effects faster and more powerful.

In addition to stopping drug use, the goal of treatment is for the private individual to productive functioning in the family, work, and community. Ways to measure the effectiveness of treatment typically include levels of criminal behavior, functioning within the family, work, and medical condition. In general, treatment for addiction is as successful as the treatment of other chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma.
According to several studies, drug treatment reduces the use of those 40 to 60 percent and significantly decreases criminal activity during and after the treatment period. For example, a study of therapeutic community treatment for drug offenders (Drug Abuse Treatment in the United States) demonstrated that arrests for criminal acts both violent and nonviolent fell by 40 percent or more. Treatment using methadone has shown a reduction in criminal behavior up to 50 percent. Research also shows that drug treatment reduces the risk of HIV infection and that interventions to prevent HIV are much cheaper than treatment related to HIV disease. Treatment can improve employment prospects, an increase of up to 40 percent after treatment. Read the rest of this entry »

New treatments for addiction to heroin or narcotic analgesics promise a long-term relief that would remove some uncertainty in the daily care of patients

Among them are already approved a monthly injection and a six-month implant already in final testing phase.

The main treatment options have long been the drugs administered once a day (as the controversial use of methadone or buprenorphine tablet called) that act as substitutes for the original drug in order to eliminate anxiety about the lack of Drug and wishes to have it but without the negative effect.

If the patient comes to miss a dose increases the risk of a relapse, but summon the strength of will every day to continue the treatment is “a formidable task,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, for its acronym in English) approved the use of Vivitrol monthly injection for long-term treatment for addiction to opiates such as heroin or painkillers like to morphine, OxyContin and Vicodin.

The injection of Vivitrol works differently than methadone or buprenorphine: Lock up the feeling if a recovering addict suffers a relapse and it is not addictive. Read the rest of this entry »

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.

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.

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 »

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 »

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. Read the rest of this entry »