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Alcohol Addiction

 

Alcohol Addiction is a Disease

Alcohol addiction is regarded as diseases by medical science. Research conducted over the years has helped doctors to understand the chemical changes that occur in the brain as a result of chronic Alcohol abuse. Alcohol Addicts need treatment for their changed brain chemistry, to learn to cope with triggers, and to regain livelihood without Alcohols and Drug abuse. Alcohol addiction is a complex disorder that can involve virtually every aspect of an individual's functioning - in the family, at work, school and in the community.

 

Alcohol & Drugs

Alcoholics may use other substances with alcohol to reach another "high." Alcohol can make an addict venerable to substance addiction  that include Prescription Drugs, CAT, Morphine, Cannabis, Ecstasy, Heroin, Cocaine or Crack, LSD, Crystal Meths or Meth-Amphetamine, Nyope, Bath Salts, Inhalant, Crystal Meth, Cannabis or Dagga and Marijua

 

Alcohol Detox

Alcohol Rehabilitation Treatment may start with detoxification and medically managed withdrawal - depending on the addiction severity. Detoxification, the process by which the body clears itself of Alcohols, is designed to manage the acute and potentially dangerous physiological effects of stopping Alcohol use. Detoxification alone does not address the psychological, social, and behavioral problems associated with addiction and therefore do not typically produce lasting behavioural changes necessary for recovery. Detoxification should thus be followed by a formal assessment and referral to Alcohol addiction treatment such as Interventions and support groups.

 

Alcohol Side Effects

Alcohol Addiction is often accompanied by unpleasant and potentially fatal side effects stemming from withdrawal, detoxification is often managed with medications administered by a physician in an inpatient or outpatient setting; therefore, it is referred to as "medically managed withdrawal.” Medications are available to assist in the withdrawal from opioids, benzodiazepines, alcohol, nicotine, barbiturates, and other sedatives.

 

Alcohol Withdrawal Medicine

Oxazepam (Serax) often is favoured by internists and hepatologists treating alcohol and drug withdrawal in patients with severe liver failure. It has a rel­atively short half-life of 6 to 8 hours. Its metabolism is very simple and it has no metabolites. The agent is relatively limited in that its oral absorption is quite slow compared to other benzodiazepines, it must be given

three to four times a day, and is only available in the United States in an oral form.

 

Celebrities

Celebrities who are open about their alcohol and drug addictions include Snoop Dogg and Lil’ Wayne. Others are not so open but are arrested for marijuana such as Willie Nelson, Kareem Abdul-Jabaar, Sebastian Bach and Carlos Santana. Famous heroin users include Eric Clapton, Kurt Cobain and Janis Joplin. Famous alcoholics include Jane Lynch, Melanie Griffith, David Hasselhoff and Toby Keith.

 

Drug Addiction

 

Heroin

Opioids are highly addicting, and their chronic use leads to withdrawal symptoms that, although not medically dangerous, can be high­ly unpleasant and produce intense discomfort. All opioids (e.g., heroin, morphine, hydromor­phone, oxycodone, codeine, and methadone) produce similar effects by interacting with endogenous (produced by the body itself) opi­oid receptors. Opioid agonists stimulate these receptors and opioid antagonists block them, preventing their action.

 

Cocaine

Cocaine and amphetamines (such as metham­phetamine) are the most frequently abused cen­tral nervous system stimulants. Individuals dependent on stimulants experience profound loss of control over stimu­lant intake, presumably in response to the stimulation and disruption of endogenous (orig­inating internally) reward centres. They often use stimulants in a binge pattern that is followed by periods of withdrawal.

 

Domestic Drugs

large and varied group of psychoactive sub­stances that all share the common characteris­tic of being inhaled for their effects. They are commonly found in household, industrial, and medical products. These drugs are used pri­marily by adolescents, although some, especial­ly the nitrates, are used by adults as well

 

Marijuana and Hashish

Marijuana and hashish are the two sub­stances containing THC (delta-9-tetrahydro­cannabinol) commonly used today. The field of addiction medicine has given considerable attention to the question of whether there is a specific withdrawal syndrome associated with cessation from prolonged THC use. In the past, many have stated that there is no acute abstinence syndrome that develops in people who abruptly discontinue THC.

 

Club Drugs

Club drugs represent diverse classes of drugs that include sedative-hypnotic type agents as well as stimulant/hallucinogens. Club drugs are illicit drugs used in the setting of nightclubs, usually with several hundred people in attendance.

 

LSD

Hallucinogens are a broad group of sub­stances that can produce sensory abnormali­ties and hallucinations. Most hallucinogens have some adrenergic effects as well. Hallucinogens also are referred to as psychedelics and psychomimetics. The more traditional hallucinogens such as lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) are considered primarily serotonergic-acting agents.

Text Box: Withdrawal syndromes have not been reported with hallucinogens; however, consider¬able attention has been paid to residual effects such as delayed perceptual illusions with anxiety, "flashbacks," residual psychotic symptoms, and long-term cognitive impairment. EcstasyText Box: Withdrawal syndromes have not been reported with hallucinogens; however, consider¬able attention has been paid to residual effects such as delayed perceptual illusions with anxiety, "flashbacks," residual psychotic symptoms, and long-term cognitive impairment.

MDMA commonly known as ecstasy, was synthesized around the turn of the century and patented by Merck Pharmaceuticals in 1914. These drugs are phenel-ethylene stimulants with various substitution groups off the ben­zene ring that give the medications hallucino­genic properties.