Insights About Drug Addiction

Drugs are used for medication of different ailments. It is sometimes prescribed alone for home treatment or it is advice with equipment like Elisa kits. The problem with home meds is that, they can make the patient take the medicines in high dosage or even if it is not necessary. Unlike in the hospitals, the attending nurse or physician supervises medicine intakes. With this kind of situation, patients tend to drink medicines even after the treatment. They became addicts to the medicines.

Drug addiction is not only about the use of prohibited drugs like marijuana, cocaine, heroin and such. As long as there is an excessive use of drugs, there is always an abuse.

Why people engage in this kind of situations? Most of us may think it is because of society or maybe it is because of the influence by others. As an observation, here is the most common factor why teenagers and adults result in drug addiction.

o Peer pressure- this depends on the society we live in. Now for some, the people around them is the main factor why they become drug addicts. At first, it will be just for fun, a one-time event. Then after, it will become a hobby.

o Influence - in our modern times, everything is accessible- web, televisions and other stuff. Some young men and women adopt the things they watch. For example, they are watching this TV series, and one of the characters uses drugs. He or she also will use drugs TVs claim it is okay.

o Problems- now, it can be family problems or any kind of problem. When you are in the influence of drugs, somehow, you are able to neither relax and think nor feel anything. For some, it is an outlet of their emotions.

o For fun - during parties, teenagers use different kinds of drug for a different kind of pleasure. They are not contented with the intoxication of alcohol; rather, they use drugs for fun.

Having a drug addict in the family, does not only affect the person, but the entire family. Of course, parents usually blame themselves for not raising their children well. In fact, it is the fault of their child.

Parents help their child by taking them to a physician to run some drug test using Elisa kits. After which, if the child is positive to certain drugs, it is the discretion of the parents to take their child to a rehabilitation center or not. Most important is that drug addicts need the support, attention and love of their family. Remember that they are in a state where they cannot even help themselves, so give them the support they need.

What Makes Drug Addiction Start?

People do not set out to become addicts. It's not like going to the gym to change your body to promote health and fitness. It's not like people take crack cocaine for the first time because they truly believe it's the best possible way to a better life. They take it for its effect. They want to get high. The problem is that the high is captivating.

Even if addiction does not set in, getting high becomes an alternative to experiencing life as it is. Users want to feel good, so they get high. Some users want to escape the realities of life, so they get high. They numb the pain. In either case, there is something missing. There is a hole in their heart and they try to fill it.

Our experience of life holds the key to understanding what is missing. We go through life gathering information and storing it in our memory. The information we gather is filtered by our mind and we add our interpretation of the event on to the event itself. It is how we interpret the event that assigns negative or positive to the experience. For example, I fail a test in school. I can either interpret this as an opportunity to improve and do better next time, or I can chose to dwell on the failure and perhaps even turn the event into a crisis. In both cases, my interpretation of the present is determined largely by our past.

Addiction disease may require a medical intervention, but there is also a spiritual component to it, and that spiritual component deals directly with the interpretation of life events. The need to use may be locked in a distant memory, or event a series of memories. That's where psychotherapy comes in. Like peeling an onion, the task is to find the original memory. In his book, "When Feelings Don't Come Easy," therapist Craig A. Miller talks about the necessity for people to find their feelings, and express those feelings. As an adult, one may look back at a childhood event and relive the emotions of the event, and through that reliving of the event learn to interpret as an adult. The Apostle Paul said that when he was a child, he thought like a child. As an adult, he thinks like an adult. Through reliving events, people can find the truth about those events and receive healing for the hurts.

The value of therapy to unlock feelings is enormous. As a pastor and chaplain, I firmly believe in a Christian-based approach to the therapy, based upon accepted psychotherapeutic theories and techniques. I have seen too many religious quacks, spewing out a toxic faith that leads to doing more damage. Remember, we are body, mind and spirit, and so trained professionals in each area are best suited to help people get in touch with their memories and the feelings that accompany them.