Web of Addiction: Role of Families in Cycle of Addiction
The role families play in the cycle of addiction is often overlooked. For example, it is important not to give the addict money, even when they threaten to harm themselves if you don't. Family therapy can provide supportive structures that will prom...
Web of Addiction: Commonly Used Drugs
Besides alcohol and tobacco, both legal drugs, there is a wide variety of compounds that are addictive, from hard drugs like heroin and cocaine to therapeutic drugs like sedatives, hypnotics, and tranquilizers. Drugs such as marijuana and caffeine a...
Web of Addiction: Designing a More Effective Approach to Drug Rehabilitation
Administrators of programs talk about the benefits of treating drug addiction as a health problem rather than a legal problem. A large majority of people in prison are there because of a drug-related offenses. Treatment programs have long waiting li...
Web of Addiction: Breaking the Hold of Drug Dependence
When people are addicted to drugs like alcohol or heroin their brain is saying, "Danger, don't stop this drug!" It takes a lot of help to kick the habit because of the pain of withdrawal. Some programs use substitute drugs, such as methadone for her...
Web of Addiction: Destructive Effects of Cocaine, The
Cocaine is a reinforcing stimulant drug that is extremely addictive. Users are not satisfied with the same dose day after day; they must have more. The rapid high associated with cocaine can cause disturbances in heart rhythm, heart attacks and stro...
Web of Addiction: Marijuana Use
Other than alcohol, marijuana is the most prevalent drug of choice in our society, particularly among younger people. It has toxic effects because it is inhaled and appears to be linked to increase risk of cancer, bronchitis, and asthma. Marijuana i...
Web of Addiction: Victims of Drug Addiction, The
The use of illicit drugs is increasing in many parts of the world along with the social and health problems related to it. Drug use is as familiar to suburbia and the corridors of big business as it is on the streets. Addictive behaviors tend to be ...
Web of Addiction: Sedating with Heroin
Heroin use is on the rise, in part because of the increased purity of the drug and a decrease in price. Exposure to heroin is the opposite of cocaine. It produces a subjective dream euphoria, a kind of sedation that lasts an hour or so. If heroin is...
Web of Addiction: Role of the Environment in Addiction, The
Drug addiction is not like other genetically-affected illnesses that appear regardless of a person's behavior. Drug addiction is uniquely dependent on how the person interacts with their environment. A person exposed to a drug will first develop a h...
Web of Addiction: Behavior Therapy and the Withdrawal from Drugs
Medications used in addiction treatment are almost always used in conjunction with psychosocial therapy that teaches people what triggers their addiction. People discover that they do have a choice, and that by learning different routines and how to...