Substance Abuse Addiction
A condition characterized
by repeated compulsive seeking and using of drugs, alcohol or other similar substances despite adverse social, mental, and physical consequences is a definition that can apply to substance
abuse as well as substance addiction. When
addiction sets in however it is usually accompanied by psychological and physical dependence where the substance is craved just to feel somewhat normal.
Withdrawal symptoms, physical and mental usually appear to a greater or lesser degree when the substance is rapidly decreased or terminated.
Substance
abuse has moved into
addiction when the substance use controls the individual rather than the individual controlling the usage.
Drug Rehab Information By State
Drug symptoms are various and quite numerous depending on what drug or what combination of drugs are being abused.
One thing is clear however – when
addiction exists the
drug use controls the individual rather than the individual controlling the drug use.
Some drugs stimulate, some depress, some hallucinate, and all of this can vary widely depending on the types as well as quantities being abused.
At Narconon Arrowhead testing and interviews are done concerning drug symptoms, and are then done again and again. The story and the picture of the individuals
addiction will then get clearer and clearer and the fog of addiction lifts more and more as the program is progressed through.
Heroin is a highly addictive illegal drug. During the 1800’s opium
addiction was a major problem in the U.S.
Morphine was developed as supposedly a non-addictive substitute for opium but proved to be even more addictive.
The same is true of Heroin which was a supposedly non addictive replacement for morphine, but again is actually more addictive than opium or morphine.
In more modern times we know have methadone as a supposed ‘solution’ to heroin addiction.
Methadone is even more addictive than heroin. If withdrawal from heroin can be gruesome and harrowing, then methadone is even worse and can be life- threatening if unsupervised.
Researching and choosing the best drug
rehab is a daunting task at best.
There is long-term, short-term, traditional, non-traditional, inpatient, outpatient, etc... Understanding
rehabilitation as restoring something or someone to a previous condition helps in sorting out the various forms of drug rehab.
Narconon Arrowhead is a long-term, non-traditional drug rehab.
We specialize in creating drug free productive lives, not someone who has simply stopped drug or alcohol use for the moment.
Effective drug
rehab should involve the full and complete handling of the three factors that lay behind continued
drug use and numerous relapses. First are mental and physical cravings for drugs or alcohol. Second and third are guilt and depression resulting from the situations and circumstances of our addiction, as well as various forms of these three that led up to initial drug and alcohol use to begin with. There is more to
drug rehab than simply ceasing drug or alcohol use.
Narconon Arrowhead is not only a drug
addiction rehab, but is also a drug
abuse rehab.
In reality these two are very similar with the main difference being degree of use.
If we understand drug
abuse as ‘the harmful and illegal non-medicinal use of drugs or alcohol’; and
addiction as
‘a condition characterized by repeated, compulsive seeking and use of drugs, alcohol or other similar substances despite social, mental, and physical consequences’ we see that the line between the two is small at best.
Cravings, guilt, and depression resulting from drug or alcohol use are the common denominators between the two and ARE the points needing resolved if one is to achieve lasting sobriety from either abuse or addiction.
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