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What is asthma?
Asthma is a chronic or long-term. If you have asthma, at times, their airways, or bronchi become inflamed (see diagram). When this happens, your airways become red and inflamed. They become narrow, making it difficult for you to breathe. You may also wheeze or cough. Even when you feel good, his airways can be inflamed. Certain things, such as smoke or dust can start or trigger an asthma attack.

What is the treatment for asthma?
Most people with asthma take two kinds of medicines. One kind is called controller medicine long term. These drugs help control inflammation so you feel and breathe better. They stop your airways from reacting to what triggers your asthma. Controller medicines work only long if you take every day the way your doctor tells you. Another type of medication for asthma is quick-relief or rescue medicine (also called bronchodilators). These medicines dilate the airways (make them bigger) and make it easier for you to breathe. These inhaled medicines should only be used for quick relief when you are coughing or wheezing or chest tightness.

Teenagers often have to face realities that are difficult to understand, and if we add the fact that they must adapt to changes in their own growth (both psychosocial and physical) becomes a little clearer to understand why adolescents are considered a high risk population in the area of drug addiction.

The simple fact of eating something forbidden poses a personal challenge for the adolescent, which in some cases is shared by other friends or idols valued by the young. In many cases adolescents perceive that drugs allow temporary relief from certain unpleasant circumstances of social or family who may be living.

At this stage in the life of a young social group that owns it becomes more important and, therefore, the teenager is more influenced by the opinions, habits and customs of this group. Some use the drug in an attempt to differentiate devalued groups, such as that make children and adults.
It is also important to note the influence of the media, the image provided by the parents and the pressure of the social group with the subject of legal drug use. In general the consumption of snuff and alcohol is the kickoff to start then with legal drugs regardless of age at the commencement of their consumption.

The first substances with which teens are beginning to experience alcohol and snuff, then going to the hard liquor and / or marijuana.

Addictive drugs are substances capable of interacting with a living organism, so that there is a physical state of psychic dependence or both, which implies the existence of several types of dependence. Most drugs can cause one of the two kinds of auque dependence occurs in some cases both.

Substance Dependence
Substance misuse leads to a clinically significant impairment or distress, characterized by the following facts:
The substance is consumed in larger amounts or over a period m’prolongado than originally intended.
There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts are cut down or control substance use.
It uses a lot of time in activities related to obtaining the substance, eg visiting doctors or driving long distances, consumption of the substance such as smoking one cigarette after another in recovery from its effects.
Reduction or abandonment of important social, occupational, or recreational Deity to substance use.
It continues to use the substance despite being aware of physical or psychological problem caused or axacerbados seem the use of the substance.

Talk about drugs, you may hear about marijuana from a friend or ecstasy by someone on the street or college, do you think is enough information?.

- The most important weapon for the prevention of drug consumption is education.
- Campaign with a presence in over 100 countries and translated into over 12 languages.
- Campaign ADDY Award winning GOLD. In today’s world much talk about drugs, you may hear about marijuana from a friend or ecstasy by someone on the street or university, you may have seen a movie about cocaine or have read an opinion piece on LSD (acid). You think this is enough information? With a campaign that speaks openly about the truth of drugs, Camilo Andres Carrillo Rojas, Social Communicator, Specializing in awareness campaigns and corporate management, strategic communications expert named for peace and development by European Union and Social Action in the framework of the third peace laboratory is now one of the official spokespersons in Colombia Foundation for a Drug-Free World and its drug prevention campaign, the campaign aims to provide truthful and real to are teenagers, children and adults to decide whether drugs or not.

The Foundation for a Drug-Free World and his spokesman seek awareness and change consumption statistics by the lack of information. The nonprofit Foundation has led the campaign to over 125 countries worldwide in over 12 languages. Currently the drug is as normal as buying in the store a box of Chiclets, so it is important to educate students, parents, children, teachers, leaders and other people about the Truth about the causes and consequences in the body and mind.

The Foundation for a Drug Free World aims to educate and allow useful information to make the individual to decide.

Has always been considered be informed about the consequences of drugs is the best preventive strategy, but the reality is not so simple. For example, in the case of smokers, they continue to smoke despite having sufficient information about the consequences consumption. One of the key elements for effective prevention of drug use is to develop the ability to make decisions.

It is therefore very important that families provide to their children about drugs, their characteristics, as they can expect from them, how they can influence their lives, etc., so that hij @ s can make a serious and conscious decision on this issue. But this is not enough. Once our hij @ s have made ​​a decision, the family must make hij @ s feel confident so they can maintain this decision should also provide options for leisure activities that are alternatives to drug drugs, etc.. A misconception we have of “drug” is associated only with certain substances illegal.

However, the concept of drug is much broader and includes any substance that when consumed, produces changes in our perceptions, our emotions and our behavior and if consumed repeatedly, can lead to dependence. We must also distinguish between “use” and “abuse” of drugs.

When we speak of abuse, mainly recognizes two forms. One is the use of the same drug against different stimuli, but not every day.

The other is characterized by variation in the drug, provided it does not happen every day.

In the latter case, the individual uses different drugs, and adverse effects in the form of compensation. Resorts to cocaine to suit until dawn and then used depressants to sleep.

So we enter a vicious circle that is very difficult to break even with expert help. We can say that someone makes regular use of a drug when it happens to accompany the different stages of his life, when programming their presence in certain specific circumstances, and when it is linked with pleasing instances of life.

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Drugs are chemicals that tap into the brain’s communication system and disrupt the way nerve cells normally send, receive, and process information. There are at least two ways that drugs are able to do this: (1) by imitating the brain’s natural chemical messengers, and/or (2) by overstimulating the “reward circuit” of the brain.

Some drugs, such as marijuana and heroin, have a similar structure to chemical messengers, called neurotransmitters, which are naturally produced by the brain. Because of this similarity, these drugs are able to “fool” the brain’s receptors and activate nerve cells to send abnormal messages.

Other drugs, such as cocaine or methamphetamine, can cause the nerve cells to release abnormally large amounts of natural neurotransmitters, or prevent the normal recycling of these brain chemicals, which is needed to shut off the signal between neurons. This disruption produces a greatly amplified message that ultimately disrupts normal communication patterns.

Nearly all drugs, directly or indirectly, target the brain’s reward system by flooding the circuit with dopamine. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter present in regions of the brain that control movement, emotion, motivation, and feelings of pleasure. The overstimulation of this system, which normally responds to natural behaviors that are linked to survival (eating, spending time with loved ones, etc.), produces euphoric effects in response to the drugs. This reaction sets in motion a pattern that “teaches” people to repeat the behavior of abusing drugs. Read the rest of this entry »

The drugs attack the human being without distinction of sex origin or religion. More women have both physiological traits of personality, making it more prone to abuse these substances, and even more so, recovery may take longer.

Undeniable physical differences between women and men, such as body size, lipid concentration, endocrinological differences, menstrual cycle, all determining factors in regard to the use and effect of drugs.

The woman has 25 percent more fat cells than men, moreover, that his body contains less water. Thus, drugs penetrate faster and easier to adhere to the fatty tissues of the body, they serve as a catalyst, then the chances of ‘installed’ in the body of a woman is more efficient for the drug, and addiction develops faster. Consistent with this, detoxification is slower and more difficult in the female body. Another reason is the social stigma: women suffer more than men, it is harder to ask for help due to social pressures and the role that is inherently awards. To this is added a false sense of protection to the woman who avoids giving a diagnosis of dependence, creating a circle of silence around it slows the opportunity to indicate appropriate treatment.

Risk Factors
Increased physical vulnerability to alcohol and drugs: The process of metabolizing alcohol makes them drunk faster. Other research reported by the National Institute on Drug United States reported that the highest levels of cocaine in women can result in a more intense search behavior to drugs, specifically cocaine and make it harder for women who are under treatment to stop drinking. Read the rest of this entry »

Nearly all addicts believe they can start to stop using drugs on their own, and most try to stop without receiving any treatment. However, many of these attempts fail when you want to achieve long-term abstinence. Research has shown that drug use produces long-term significant changes in brain function that persist long after the individual stops using drugs. These changes in brain function caused by drugs can have severe consequences on behavior, including the urge to use drugs despite adverse consequences, the defining characteristic of addiction.

The fact that addiction has an important biological component may help explain the difficulty that people have to achieve abstinence without treatment. The psychological pressure of work or family problems, social cues (such as meeting individuals from the past who used drugs), or the environment (as found in certain streets, see some objects or even feel odors associated with drug use ) may act in conjunction with biological factors to hinder attainment of sustained abstinence and this makes it more likely to relapse. Research indicates that even individuals with more severe addiction can actively participate in treatment and that active participation is essential to achieve positive results.

Cocaine, a stimulant, mimics the effects of chemicals produced in the brain to send messages of pleasure, reward center in the brain. Like adrenaline, cocaine increases heart rate, blood pressure and respiration rate. Feelings when arousal is too high, anxiety, paranoia, hallucinations, and anger can produce progress on the potentially fatal attacks and stroke.

Treatments for Drug addiction vary on many factors including the severity and duration of symptoms, the amount of damage caused by cocaine, and recovery. The most common symptoms of addiction are generally noted the desire for drugs, irritability, loss of energy, depression, anxiety, tremors want too much or insomnia, nausea and palpitations, sweating, hyperventilation, increased appetite and sleep. These symptoms can usually take several weeks – even after cessation of cocaine.

Drugs for treating cocaine addiction are not yet available, although researchers are working feverishly to identify and test new features. The drug appears to be promising experimental selegiline force still needs an appropriate method of administration. Disulfiram, a drug used to treat alcoholism, has proved to be somewhat “effective in the treatment of cocaine abuse during clinical trials. Antidepressants are prescribed primarily to treat mood swings, usually cocaine withdrawal. Treatments have been developed to deal with an overdose of cocaine.

Edits, such as cognitive behavioral skills to adapt to be effective in treating cocaine addiction, but there are only a short-term approach that focuses on the learning process. Behavioral therapy to help patients recognize, prevent and treat conditions that lead to use cocaine again.

This treatment is dedicated doctors, nurses and therapists, treatment programs to recognize the severity of addiction. On the basis that treatment programs provide well-documented medical techniques, the best choice for patients of all types of treatment available.