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Addictive patterns And How They Affect Your Life

July 17, 2016

The addictive pattern is one of the most destructive behaviors worth changing. It isn’t easy understanding the reasons we want to stick with it even after knowing the obvious risks. Despite the fact that we are aware of the benefits of stopping, we still want to go ahead with it.

According to several 12 programs, insanity is defined as doing one thing repeatedly expecting to get varying results. Other organizations define Karma as being unable to stop doing something even when what you get from it are suffering and pain. The best way to end karma and insanity is practicing wisdom that is gained from education and experience.

How Addictive patterns work

Your personality is determined by your external senses that include hearing, taste, touch and sight. Addiction to certain habits or stimuli can change these senses. The habituation process is simply a survival technique coded in your genes to prevent you from doing original learning.

For example, you taste a chocolate cake for the first time, and it made you feel good. You’ll probably eat it again and again. You become addicted, and it reaches a point you can’t resist it. And when you realized it isn’t doing you any good, you have divided attentions. You want to eat it, but another thought tells you not to.

How regular and irregular reward systems affect changes your behavior

A regular reward system is predictable. You know very well that whenever you eat the cake, you get a reward that is, its sweet taste followed by satisfaction.

An irregular reward system is unpredictable. When you eat your favorite cake, there are two options. You can get the satisfaction you need or not. Not getting the satisfaction you need can be painful, but because you have hopes you can get it, you go ahead and do it. On the other hand, if you get the satisfaction, you’ll want to do it again and again, making it an addiction.

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The best way to deal with the reward system is to stop receiving the reward. For example, you eat your cake, and you don’t get the reward you expect.

Dealing with irregular system means going for it even if you know you won’t get the reward. You eat your cake; you get the satisfaction. You eat it again, and the satisfaction doesn’t come causing you pain. You’ll do this until you get bored of it.

Changing the awareness

You now know that the cake doesn’t give you the satisfaction you used to get, but you can still get the satisfaction by eating it. To do away with such an addiction, you are required to go beyond your personality. Whenever you think of doing it, think of the consequences. Follow up by making a wise choice.

For example, when the feeling of taking that cake comes again, take it as an opportunity to test your addiction limits and to make yourself stronger. Let it show up, but try not to think about eating it. This will make it easier for you to control it in future and before you know it, it will be history.

 

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Prescription Drug Abuse Facts

July 16, 2016

Nowadays almost every drug is abused. And this includes prescription drugs such as anti-anxiety medicines, stimulants and painkiller and much more. Taking prescription drugs in large amounts may lead to several effects similar to what drug abusers often experience from other illegal drugs. Unfortunately, being legal doesn’t mean they are safe to take in large amounts. The main reasons, doctors are too strict on the dosage, is the fact that taking more or less than what is recommended might either lead to serious health problems or fail to work as specified.

According to 2011 data by Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of people who died as a result of prescription drug abuse surpassed the number of those who died as a result of heroin, cocaine and all other illegal drugs in the same year. This means that prescription drug abuse is popular than any other illegal drug abuse.

Each and every year, over 500, 000 visits and 15,000 deaths occur annually as a result of opioid dependence. Such drugs have led to many accidental deaths that include traffic accidents. Among the most common addictive prescription drugs include oxycodone, oxymorphone as well as hydrocodone.

Treatment of Chronic Pain Using Addictive Prescription Drugs

As a result of the findings that opioids had some addictive effects and would if taken in large amounts lead to serious illnesses, health experts decided that it would be better used to treat terminally ill cancer patients. Nowadays, doctors see it as one of the best options for treating pain. They are often used on patients who are recovering from surgery to prevent the pain that they have to go through during the process.

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Sadly, continuous use of the drug even without bad intention will lead to addiction. The other bad news is that it is common among all ages putting it on the top list of the most abused prescription drugs. Studies even show that it is the veterans that make a larger percentage.

How legal is it?

One of the thing that makes abuse of prescription drugs quite complex is the fact that it is hard to distinguish between the time when it is right to use them and when not to. Most of the times, you’ll find them in a possession of any person who was previously sick and had to use the drug. Unfortunately, most of them don’t intent to use the drugs alone. They will give the drug to any other family member whenever they feel it is right to give them.

Prescription Drug Abuse versus the Government

Misuse of prescription drugs has become a threat to public health. As a result, the government has chosen to chase after those responsible for their supply as well as those who go out and buy them in hiding.

The point is, prescription drug abuse has become a big problem, not only because people use them in hiding but also because they are partly legal. It is harder to realize the intent of the person buying the drug especially if he or she had medical issues in the past. The only way to reduce the deaths that occur as a result of prescription drug abuse is to be an example, and this starts with you.

 

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Drug-Abuse

Drug Abuse

July 15, 2016

A critical look at drug abuse and how to get help

Drug Abuse can be defined as a habitual use of illegal or addictive drugs. Addicts take drugs, not for medical purposes but to alter the state of their minds and body. It involves taking illegal drugs such as heroin, ecstasy, heroin or cannabis. It may also include the unlimited use of legal drugs such as painkillers, tranquilizers as well as sleeping pills. In short, substance abuse means using a particular drug wrongly. For example, using a syrup without following your doctor’s prescriptions is considered drug abuse.

Among the consequences often overlooked by drug abusers are high risks of injury or death that might result from an overdose. It might also damage your brain, liver, mental health, encourage aggression or even worse, an accident. Drug abuse does not only cause harm to you but may also affect your relationship with friends and family. Lastly, it might lead to incarceration accompanied by heavy fines.

What happens is, ones the drug being abused gets into the system, the victim loses control. He or she won’t be okay until a drug is administered. He or she will steal or get involved in dirty jobs such as sex so as to get the drug. And this is where the drug abuser might end up injured, in prison or dead.

Drug abuse is a widespread habit among young people, who aren’t well aware of what it can do to their future. Several studies show that a significant percentage of people aged from 15 to 24 die as a result of drug abuse or excessive use of alcohol. Also, drug abuse makes it easier for them to participate in crimes such as rape, murder or assault. Some of them just take the drug to deal with anxiety. Unfortunately, drug abuse has its pre-planned effects.

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Among the signs of drug abuse in young individuals include bad performance in school, awkward behaviours or joining a new group in the name of friends. Other symptoms include a nagging cough, changes in sleeping and eating patterns and habits or red eyes that weren’t there before. Most of the time drug abusers will hide their new habits making it harder for you to detect their change in behaviour. And the only time you’ll realize that they are using the drug is the time they can’t control it. It is, therefore, important to always watch the moves made by your kid to prevent them from becoming addicts.

The best way to deal with drug abuse at its later stages is hiring a helping hand from a specialist with all the experience needed. There are a variety of treatment options that will be determined by the needs of the patient or the drug he or she has been using. Drug abuse treatment often includes medication and psychological therapy intended to help the patient withdraw from drug use. Among the areas that should be considered during medication include long-term rehabilitation as well as prevention of relapse where the specialists will have to monitor the behavioural change of the patient for a specified period. However, all these occurrences depend on the steps you take to ensure your kid doesn’t even think of abusing any drug.

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Sex addiction: Solutions For Sex Partners

July 14, 2016

Sex addiction can be defined as an obsession with sexual thoughts or activities despite the risks. These ideas may end up compromising your performance at your workplace as well as destroy your relationship.

How to know your partner is a sex addict

Most users try to hide their behaviour, but it never long before you realize it. Here is how to find out he or she is a sex addict.

  • Searching, downloading and keeping pornographic materials
  • Mood swings after an intercourse
  • They will demand sex most of the times
  • They feel bad and most of the time get too angry if you find out they are obsessed with pornographic materials.
  • Don’t socialize a lot with peers
  • Her close friends are never same sex and much more.

Why Sex Addiction is never easy To Control

Compared to many other addictions, sex addiction is quite complicated and hard to manage. It combines influences from family background, psychological and biological issues making it harder to resist. According to studies sex addiction is triggered by neurochemical imbalances found in serotonin, dopamine as well as norepinephrine systems. Trying to resists these reactions in your body may lead to depression, stress, emptiness, boredom and more.

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How Cybersex affects relationships

Unlike drug use or alcohol addiction, behaviours related to sex addiction such as cybersex will most of the time create a sense of betrayal. Spending most of the time browsing pornographic materials is a sign that your partner isn’t giving you enough, and if he or she finds out, he or she will feel devastated which is never healthy for any relationship.

But sometimes, it is never the addict’s problem. Most of the times, couples fail to agree on how many times they should have sex, when or when not to have it. For a sexual addict, this is like trying to make him or her suffer. But since he or she needs the relationship to continue, he or she will look for substitutes, and nothing comes in handy as a cybersex where porn rules.

More often, they choose to stay up late to browse the net for explicit materials or the worst, cheat. Fortunately, this doesn’t have to happen. With a helping hand from a counsellor, you can save your family from falling apart.

How you’ll benefit from couples counselling

By seeking help from couples, counselling you are trying to involve someone who knows much better. A therapist will try to analyse both your feelings and come up with solutions that will benefit both of you. He or she will eliminate arguments making it easier for you to reach an agreement that will satisfy you both. After listening to what you have to say, the therapist will try and solve the problem from the root. This will not only help heal your emotional injuries but will also help you understand your weaknesses and strengths.

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AWAREmed Nurse Practitioner alleviates your Pain

Understanding medics addiction problems

July 13, 2016
Understanding medics addiction

Understanding medics addiction problems is very important if patients are to be attended to professionally

Understanding medics addiction problems: Treatment for the treating experts

If there is anything that doesn’t have any respect to personality, education, social standing in the society, then it must be drug addiction. Doctor Dalal Akoury MD and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center acknowledges that in more than two decades of her engagement as a medics, understanding medics addiction problems has been one hilly mountain to climb. Across the globe medical experts are not just personnel from various health institutions but a distinguish people entrusted with people’s lives. Theirs is a calling and not just a job for remuneration. In this profession doctor Akoury says that it is all about professionalism and integrity. What disturbs me she continues is the rate at which men and women in this profession are sinking in various types of substance abuse. Even though health facilities are a drug free zones, if you were to walk across the road where smoking zones have been designated, it will surprise to note that majority of smokers there are medical support staffs, nurses, administrators and doctors.

Understanding medics addiction problems: The evidence of a greater problem 

Does this sound familiar to you? Have you come across such professionals crowding in smokers corners with smoke billowing over their heads? What is really the problem? Are we losing the moral duty by some of these actions? For how long are we going to be encouraging patient and other people to make healthy lifestyle choices as part of our responsibilities when we are doing exactly the opposite? Yes medics are humans too but what morals do we have to advice patients if we are equally subjecting ourselves to the temptations of drug use, smoking, alcohol abuse and overeating?

My fellow colleagues don’t miss understand me. As a professionals I am not being too judgmental or preaching a sermon to the few who engages in such habits. I appreciate that we are all grown-ups with equal rights of enjoying the freedom of making choices as we may wish. Nonetheless, allow me to pose and say that there are certain special cases. Addiction is a health problem and when medics are the ones struggling with it, they become patients and therefore it is very important that we start looking at some of our actions through the eyes of our patients. And by the way for us to succeed in understanding medics addiction problems, the following questions will be very helpful in understanding the magnitude of the matter:

  • Can overweight nurses’ advice patients about weight loss?
  • How is stress affecting nurses and their patients?
  • Will patients listen to advice on smoking cessation when you smell like an ashtray?

We will finally discuss each of these questions in our subsequent articles but for now fellow colleagues, if you are struggling with any kind of addiction, you need help just the same way as your patients. AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center has very specific treatment programs tailored just for you. This will be done in confidence and your reputation will be protected zealously. We want to help you. So please talk to us today.

Understanding medics addiction problems: Treatment for the treating experts

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