Post acute withdrawal symptoms

March 29, 2017

Post acute withdrawal symptoms (PAWS) has serious consequences and if not addressed can cause serious problems

Post acute withdrawal symptoms: Good nutrition and diet

When it comes to proper management of alcohol and drug addiction, nutrition will always play a very significant role in the whole process. For a while now our postings concerning the post-withdrawal symptoms and how well they can be managed as a means of keeping the scourge of addiction to manageable levels have impacted on many. Ours is to impact positively on the lives of people and for that reason, we want to continue while concentrating on the good nutrition and diet for a recovering person (addict).

When considering nutrition, three things come to mind almost immediately, that there must be three well-balanced meals daily, at least three nutritious snacks daily and of course ensuring that there is no sugar and caffeine in our menu. The concern of many experts including doctor Dalal Akoury MD President and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, we are living in a very stressful society where everybody is running up and down to make ends meet. Because of the magnitude of stressful lives that they live doctor Akoury is not missing her words reiterating that hunger produces stress. Her advice is that, in order to live a healthy life based on good nutrition, the following are necessary:

Try to plan your eating schedule so that you do not skip meals and so that you can have periodic nutritious snacks
Do not eat candy, donuts, soft drinks, potato chips, or other high calories, low nutrient foods
You should specifically avoid foods that produce stress such as concentrated sweets and caffeine. Both of these produce the same kind of chemical reaction in your body as being frightened or overly excited.
Concentrated sweets such as candy, jelly, syrup, and sugar-sweetened soft drinks will give you a quick “pick-up,” but you will experience a let-down about an hour later accompanied by nervousness and irritability.

Post acute withdrawal symptoms: Battling fatigue and nervousness

With the application of these tips, you’re certainly going to see a big difference. Remember that your reason for eating a snack should be to combat fatigue and nervousness and having a nutritious snack before you feel hungry to prevent a craving for sweets will be very ideal say doctor Akoury. Just to further make emphasis on that let me share with you briefly what good nutrition can do and has done to other people. According to one of my patient who is a recovering alcoholic, she was in the habit of eating a large quantity of ice cream every night. She talked about craving for it and believed that by eating ice cream she was reducing a craving for alcohol. The next morning she always would feel sluggish and irritable. Throughout her stress increased until it was relieved by the ice cream.

One day professional counselors suggested for her that she needs to remove the ice cream from her diet she felt she could not get along without it. When our counselors examined her diet it was evident that she consistently skipped breakfast and was not getting adequate nutrition. She later agreed to try eating a balanced diet and to eliminate ice cream on a trial basis. By and by she discovered that when she ate a balanced diet and ate regular meals and several nutritious snacks throughout the day her craving for ice cream disappeared and she could easily eliminate it from her life. What does this communicate to you? Good nutrition and diet for a recovering person work and your situation is no different. Call doctor Akoury now for all your concerns about this.

Post acute withdrawal symptoms: Good nutrition and diet

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Eliminating addiction ignorance for quick healing

November 18, 2016

Eliminating addiction ignorance for quick healing and piece of mind

Eliminating addiction ignorance for quick healing: Family history in addiction

Many people don’t have the slightest idea of their family history in relation to drug addiction. This ignorance is a serious factor in the spread of addiction which is at an alarming rate. Eliminating addiction ignorance must be prioritized if we endeavor to have a society that is free from addiction. As our focus point, we want to ask questions and seek for answer from the experts of addiction like doctor Dalal Akoury MD who is also the founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center where add addiction treatment solutions rest. Realistically, addiction is not the sort of subject most families would want to talk about. Even though things are changing now, but not too long ago families would talk about addiction freely more so if one of their own was involved. This habit was and is still being experience and one of the reasons why there is a lot of silence is because of stigma and victimization. There was too little people could do about addiction before but as it is right now we know much and speaking openly about addiction is considered as one of the first steps towards finding lasting solution to the problem. And because of the information we have now, you can do something about addiction meaning that family history is worth talking about.

Let your coping skills be the legacy you pass on to your children. Don’t let your genes be the only legacy you pass on to your children. Your children are more likely to have an addiction because of your addiction. But their genes don’t have to be their destiny. You can help your children lead happy lives by teaching them healthy coping skills by being an example with your recovery says doctor Dalal Akoury.

Eliminating addiction ignorance for quick healing: How does cross addiction cause relapse

In the process of recovery challenges like relapse will always be there and so you can seek for solution from doctor Akoury from time to time on how to go about relapse but in the meantime, the following are important to note about cross addiction and relapse:

All addictions work in the same part of the brain. Addiction is addiction no matter what. Therefore one drug can lead you back to any other drug.
Even moderate drinking or smoking marijuana lowers your inhibitions, which makes it harder for you to make the right choices.
If you stop using your drug of choice but continue to use alcohol or marijuana, you’re saying that you don’t want to learn new coping skills and that you don’t want to change your life. You’re simply saying that you want to continue to rely on drugs or alcohol to escape, relax, and reward yourself. But if you don’t learn those new skills, then you won’t have changed, and your addiction will catch up with you all over again.

Eliminating addiction ignorance for quick healing: Family history in addiction

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Reducing stigma and shame of addiction

November 15, 2016

Reducing stigma and shame of addiction paves way for patients seeking for treatment and support to face the future with confidence

Reducing stigma and shame of addiction: Addiction is a disease of free will

Over the last few decades of my practice as a medical professional I have come a cross so many patients from across the globe with different disturbing health conditions coming to my office for treatment which we have gladly offered to them to a resounding positive feedback. We have made it a routine in our facility (AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center) to give our very best to all our clients irrespective of their limitations because we believe in offering lasting solutions to all health complications that we can professionally handle. This has made us to move from strength to strength over the years. However one problem of drug addiction keeps recurring owing to the nature of its effects to people differently. This one story disturbs me the most because it came to my attention several years after I was first introduced to the couple. That story is going to form part of our discussion in this article even as we focus on reducing stigma and shame of addiction both internally and externally.

But before we get there we want to assure all people reading this article now that drug addiction is a real medical problem and the sooner we deal with it the better. It is very painful seeing people losing hope and giving up on treatment because they keep relapsing every time they are about to have a break through. We are taking seriously the issue of relapse so that we can be on the front lane in defeating the beast of addiction. Therefore if you or anyone you know is struggling with any kind of addiction, our doors are always open at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury to help you recover from it professionally and with a lot of dignity. So don’t keep in hiding come up and purpose to regaining your life back with us professionally.

Reducing stigma and shame of addiction: Stop the humiliation and disgrace

Back to the story, three decades ago a couple visited my office with an addiction problem. The man who was alcoholic was in company of his wife to seek for help. Before we could even start the session, they excused themselves shortly and I felt that they were consulting on something before the session. I was surprised several minutes and hours later that my client vanished never to return. Several years later one of my student narrated this story to me and I was astonished. The student said “when I was five or six years old, my maternal grandfather died of what I was told was complications of heart disease.” She believed that because that is what she was told. It was not until several years later, after she had graduated from a medical school in psychiatry, and had secured a job for a very long time using neuroimaging to study the addicted brain, that she learned the real reason for the death of her grandfather. One day her mother gave her the revelation that shocked her life. This was coming when her mother was sick and almost breathing her last, “I need to tell you something I have never spoken to you about.” She disclosed to her that her grandfather had been an alcoholic, and that he took his own life in his distress at not being able to control his strong urges to drink.

“Oh Jesus I almost lost my grip.” Her mother had out of fear of stigma and shame kept the real reason for her grandfather’s death a secret from her that long. What surprised her is that even though she knew that in her whole professional life was devoted to trying to understand what drugs do to the brain, and that she had heard her speak of addiction as a disease of the brain, still she was not going to tell her the whole truth.” So she wondered how she had miscommunication, and how she had not made her realize that it was not a taboo to speak about addiction and that there should be no shame in it. This really troubled her and so she came to confide in me. stop stigmatizing patients and lets support them get better.

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Stopping addiction stigmatization for quick recovery

November 15, 2016

Stopping addiction stigmatization for quick recovery will go along way in facilitating quick recovery

Stopping addiction stigmatization for quick recovery: Is addiction a brain disease?

Is addiction a brain disease? Ideally in addiction there is nothing like physiological malfunction. Addiction may be defined in many different ways however, for the purpose of this article, addiction is a chronic relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite the harmful consequences. Addiction is seen as a brain disease simply because drugs has the power of making changes in the brain. These change then alters the brains structure and how it works. When this happens users may develop certain characters and behaviors that are likely to be viewed negatively in the community. It is this negativity that makes observers within the community to start isolation and pointing fingers. That is why we want to create awareness on stopping addiction stigmatization to give treatment a chance says doctor Dalal Akoury MD and also the founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center.

Stopping addiction stigmatization for quick recovery: Dopamine

All drugs of abuse, whether legal or illegal, cause large surges of dopamine in brain areas crucial for motivating our behavior—both the reward regions (such as the nucleus accumbens) as well as prefrontal regions that control our higher functions like judgment, decision making, and self-control over our actions. These brain circuits adapt to these surges by becoming much less sensitive to dopamine, a process called receptor down regulation. The result is that ordinary healthy things in our lives like all the pleasurable social and physical behaviors necessary for our survival (which are rewarded by small bursts of dopamine throughout the day) no longer are enough to motivate a person; the person will therefore needs a big surge of dopamine from the drug just to feel temporarily okay and they must continually repeat this, in an endless vicious cycle.

Stopping addiction stigmatization for quick recovery: Addiction and suicide

Finally addiction and suicide are closely linked together and if you followed our last posting about the story of this grandfather who committed suicide because he could not control his drinking problem and the daughter who could also not share about the actual cause of his death freely because of shame and stigma, then you will notice that the shame was not just because the father had been an alcoholic, but because he committed suicide, out of hopelessness and helplessness at his inability to control the strong urges to drink. We all have a duty to play in stopping addiction stigmatization so that patients can seek for treatment freely. It pains very painful that something that could be treated caused this great damage simply because of stigma, shame and fear. Dear reader if you’re following this story, let this be the last one, addiction is a treatable condition and stigma or shame are just perceptions that should not result in death. Come quickly for help today and together lets kick out of our lives the problem of drug addiction.

Stopping addiction stigmatization for quick recovery: Is addiction a brain disease?

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Addiction recovery fatigue and hopelessness

November 11, 2016

Addiction recovery fatigue and hopelessness can be very overwhelming

Addiction recovery fatigue and hopelessness: It is still possible to start all over again

As one living with a family member who is seriously into drugs you will be down hearted seeing your loved one suffering from the scourge of addiction. It may become even more frustrating when all the efforts you have put in place to help appear not to be yielding any fruit. Therefore I want to ask you that what you do when addiction recovery fatigue and hopelessness sets in threatening to ruin your recovery objectives. With all the knowledge you have and the professional advice given duly followed yet the victim keeps to their unhealthy behavior what next? And have you ever wondered why suicide is the tragic fate of so many people struggling with addiction? In our pervious article doctor Dalal Akoury an addiction expert of many decades and also the proprietor of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center shared with us some of the elements concerning the painful suicidal nature of drug addiction and she is going to be with us throughout this discussion helping us to appreciate some of the possible explanations which may cause one to give up on life and contemplate suicide. Such levels of giving up can only occur when hope runs out of addiction recovery and this is very dangerous. Now let us consider some of the occurrences when the thought of suicidal creeps in:

When under influence of drugs or alcohol, you are most likely to lose inhibitions and take risks you would not when sober like committing suicide.
Many people abuse drugs or alcohol in an attempt to relieve the symptoms of depression, anxiety or other mental health conditions.
The rate of major depression is two to four times higher among addicts than the general population.

Although drugs may seem to help in the short term, they exacerbate problems over time. When attempting to stop using drugs, people may feel overwhelmed by the return of painful emotions that they had subjected to medication using drugs. They may also be clear-headed enough to carry out suicidal thoughts and plans. Transitions, such as entering or leaving treatment, relapse, and death, divorce or other major life changes, can be especially vulnerable times.

Addiction recovery fatigue and hopelessness: Depressants

Abusing drugs, especially depressants such as alcohol or sedatives, can also trigger symptoms of depression thereby increasing the risk of suicide. As the consequences of addiction pile up, from legal problems and damaged relationships to financial ruin and job loss, individuals may lose all hope that things can get better and for some the feeling of impossibilities may take center stage where victims only see two possible ways of relief i.e. getting back into drugs use or death. In situations like these both the victim and their loved ones must work together objectively without apportioning blame. Helping one who is already giving up any hopes of ever recovering from his/her addiction can be quite challenging and that is why we are privileged to have doctor Dalal Akoury with us for professional advice and total treatment. Talking to doctor Dalal Akoury today will be of great help to you and your loved ones because up on scheduling for an appointment with her, she will professionally evaluate your individual condition and put you in the best treatment program that is tailored just for you and your unique condition.

Addiction recovery fatigue and hopelessness: It is still possible to start all over again

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