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Navigating drug cravings during treatment

June 9, 2017
Navigating drug cravings

Navigating drug cravings during treatment is essential for the good health of the brain

Navigating drug cravings during treatment: Sharing freely about craving

Drug addiction is not a taboo and issues relating to it can be discussed freely. Talking about is an effective way of navigating drug cravings especially during the recovery process. When patients have supportive friends and family members, talking freely about craving when it occurs, it gives the recovering addicts the confidence to pick up the pieces and move on. This is essential in reducing feelings of anxiety and vulnerability. Besides that, it can also help patients identify specific cues. It’s true that some family members may become distressed when they hear their loved ones (patients) sharing about craving because of the fear that this might ultimately lead to use of drugs, it is, however, important that therapists and other lined professionals to spend some time in identifying which patients would feel comfortable to talk with freely about craving, how that person would react, and whether it makes sense to ask that person in advance for support.

Navigating drug cravings during treatment: Going with the craving

Doctor Akoury says that the idea going with the craving technique is to let it (craving) occur, peak, and pass and that is to say experiencing them without either fighting or giving into them. Giving patients the imagery of a wave or walking over a hill may help convey this concept that is, gaining control by avoiding resistance.

From the various studies, experts have identified the steps involved which should be practiced within sessions before craving occurs. Besides, that patients should also be told that the purpose is not to make the cravings disappear, but to experience them in a different way that makes them feel less anxiety provoking and dangerous and thus easier to ride out. The steps are summarized below.

Pay attention to the craving – This usually involves, first, finding someplace safe to let oneself experience craving (e.g., a comfortable and quiet place at home). Next, relax and focus on the experience of craving itself – where it occurs in the body or mind and how intense it is.

Focus on the area where the craving occurs – This involves paying attention to all the somatic and affective signals and trying to put them into words. What is the feeling like? Where is it? How strong is it? Does it move or change? Where else does it occur? After concentrating in this way, many patients find the craving goes away entirely. In fact, the patient may find it useful to rate the intensity of craving before and after the exercise to demonstrate the effectiveness of the technique.

Finally, understanding the negativity of drug cravings and coping strategies alone will not be helpful if you do not take the next step of seeking help. Yes, you now have the information, but if you don’t apply that information, it will not be helpful. That is the reason why doctor Dalal Akoury founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center for every individual who is struggling with any form of addiction to seek help. You can reach out to her on telephone number 843 213 1480 so that you can have a one on one with her and you will have all your addiction related concerns addressed professionally.

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Total addiction abstinence nightmare

June 9, 2017
Total addiction abstinence

Total addiction abstinence nightmare. This may be true only if remedial action is not taken

Total addiction abstinence nightmare: Dealing with PAWS  

Most cocaine addicts struggle with the idea of total addiction abstinence. If you’re addicted to cocaine, you know you never want to use cocaine again. Cocaine has ruined your life, it has cost you a lot of money, but you’re not sure about stopping alcohol. Maybe alcohol has never been a problem. But because of cross addiction, if you want to stop using cocaine you must also stop all addictive drugs including alcohol and marijuana.

Alcohol is a common trigger for cocaine use. You’ll start with just a few drinks a week. Maybe you’ll drink moderately for weeks or even months without using cocaine. But then one week, you’ll have a bad week. Bad things happen. During that week, everything will go wrong. You’ll be stressed out at work. You’ll have an argument at home. And by the end of the week, you’ll really want a drink. But instead of just a few drinks, you’ll want maybe three or four drinks to take the edge off. After the first one or two drinks, your inhibitions will be lower. After two or three drinks, you’ll reach a magic number, and your brain will suddenly say “Bingo. I remember this feeling, and I remember something that feels even better.” And you’ll be off using again.

These are the temptation techniques which can be avoided by choosing to remain sober through constant consultation with the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury from time to time. Remember that doctor Akoury is a veteran addiction expert and has been of help to many people across the globe and your condition will be very safe with her but first you need to make that commitment of scheduling for an appointment with her today.

Total addiction abstinence nightmare: How to deal with PAWS

Doctor Akoury is registering that in dealing with Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS) challenges of inconsistency will always be there. This is because PAWS often come and go. Because of this many people will find relief within a very short period of time and with that in mind, the following tips can help you in increasing your recovery process:

·        Ensuring that they eat a balanced diet and taking nutritional supplements as prescribed by their doctor. If these symptoms are being caused by nutritional deficiencies then eating a balanced diet should help to address this.

·        Exercise is not only good for physical health but also for mental well-being. It is important that people in recovery devote at least a little time each day to physical activity.

·        Meditation is a wonderful tool for improving concentration and developing inner peace. Those who are dealing with PAWS can find it difficult to mediate nonetheless; they can begin by learning some simple breathing exercises.

·        Those people who belong to a recovery group are likely to find that this provides them with support and advice.

·        One of the important tasks for early recovery is for people to develop skills for dealing with stress. A good reason for attending rehab is that it gives the individual a head start in developing such coping mechanisms.

·         It is important that those who are dealing with PAWS realize that these symptoms will almost certainly disappear once they are established in recovery.

Total addiction abstinence nightmare: Dealing with PAWS  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Addicted employee support program

June 9, 2017
Addicted employee support

Addicted employee support program is the key to unlocking the problem of substance abuse at workplace

Addicted employee support program: What can be done at the workplace?

With the prevalence of workplace alcoholism and drug addiction, there is need to find solutions for the restoration of human resource. While the state will be formulating policies, individual organizations also need to be proactive in putting mechanisms in place that will defend them from preventable losses as a result of alcoholism and drug addiction. One of the most effective ways of doing this is by creating addicted employee support programs. According to the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD) before 1950’s it was established that workplace was ideally suited to address alcoholism through a focus on employee job performance and access to treatment. And to this effectively, NCADD founded the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) concept as a joint labor-management program. In fact, at that time NCADD for the first time documented the very first EAP Manual and the first EAP Standards formally known as Occupational Alcoholism Programs and later evolved into what are now called, EAP’s.

And now according to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury MD, addressing the problem of drug and alcoholism can be dealt with effectively at the workstations. This can be done by promoting programs like EAP. Through this, employees and their family members are able to give the much-needed support to their loved ones and to the organization as well. In her opinion (doctor Akoury), whenever individuals and families are faced with a host of difficulties associated with drinking problems, in many instances these problems often spill into the workplace. Take for instance a husband and wife working in different organizations and if the husband drinks, the wife is likely to be stressed at work owing to her husband’s drinking habits thereby causing her to miss her targets.

Addicted employee support program: Nurturing a strong and addiction free workforce  

Therefore by offering encouragement, support, and treatment, employers can dramatically assist in reducing the negative impact of alcoholism in the workplace, while reducing their costs. Research has demonstrated that alcohol treatment pays for itself in reduced health care costs that begin as soon as people begin treatment. Alcohol treatment also improves an individual’s functioning, leading to increased productivity at work. It is important to embrace some of these workplace-based programs like EAP programs which have actually helped millions of individuals and family members affected by alcohol problems. Some facts about alcohol in the workplace may include:

  • Workers with alcohol problems are 2.7 times more likely than workers without drinking problems to have injury-related absences.
  • A hospital emergency department study showed that 35 percent of patients with an occupational injury were at-risk drinkers.
  • Breathalyzer tests detected alcohol in 16% of emergency room patients injured at work.
  • Analysis of workplace fatalities has shown that at least 11% of the victims had been drinking.
  • Large federal surveys show that 24% of workers report drinking during the workday least once in the past year.
  • One-fifth of workers and managers across a wide range of industries and company sizes report that a coworker’s on- or off-the-job drinking jeopardized their own productivity and safety.

As employers, this is to your benefits and calling on doctor Akoury to address your staff on addiction will be essential for your organization and to your staff and their loved ones.

Addicted employee support program: What can be done at the workplace?

 

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Workplace alcoholism impacts

June 9, 2017
Workplace alcoholism impacts

Workplace alcoholism impacts adversely on the good health of the personnel as well as their productivity

Workplace alcoholism impacts: The focus on drugs and alcoholism

Laziness is a crime which can destroy a whole generation. To avoid being lazy, we’ve got to work and fend for ourselves and families. While doing this noble duty, we often meet obstacles along the way. One of the major problems people face in their workstation is issues relating to drug abuse. This is a common problem that causes loss of human resource work time and because of that, we want to understand how workplace alcoholism impacts on our social and economic life. Job opportunities come in many ways including self-employment and labor employment where one offer services to an organization for a reward. One of the most devastating things that can happen in a workstation is the involvement of employees in addictive substances. This does not only destroys the organization’s image but also to the health of the personnel and can be very costly.

For a better understanding, we spoke to the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury MD and it is evident that this must be addressed timely and professionally. Doing this will benefit both the employee and the employer. For that reason, I want to request you to keep on the link to learn with the experts and should you have any concern, you can schedule an appointment with doctor Akoury for further professional deliberations.

Workplace alcoholism impacts on all sectors of life. In fact, it is a global problem. Every nation has its own share of the problem but for the purpose of this discussion, we want to focus on how this is affecting the USA. In that respect, doctor Akoury is registering that various studies conducted by experts in the recent past has estimated that out of millions who hold full-time employment in the United States, a staggering population of about fifteen million are heavy drinkers of alcohol thereby exacting a high cost on work organizations primarily because employees who drink a lot are often absent themselves from work besides suffering from persistent health complications. Because of this, they are at a greater risk of harming themselves and their colleagues too.

Workplace alcoholism impacts: Addiction problems

The significance of alcoholism and drugs in work environment are many and can be classified into four major areas of greater concerns as follows:

  • Premature death as a result of fatal accidents
  • Increased injuries and accident rates
  • Absenteeism or absconding work occasioned by extra sick leave
  • Loss of production as a result of a weak workforce.

The four mentioned above are the major issues that come with the problem of alcoholism and substance abuse in our workstations; however, that is not the end of the complications. The other additional problem areas that are associated with alcoholism and drug addiction at the workplace may include:

  • Tardiness and consistency in sleeping on the job
  • Theft
  • The cost of poor decision making
  • Loss of efficiency
  • Lower morale of co-workers particularly those who are not drinking because they will have to work extra to cover for their weak colleagues
  • Increased likelihood of having trouble with co-workers, supervisors or tasks
  • Higher turnover
  • Training of new employees
  • Disciplinary procedures

Workplace alcoholism impacts: The focus on drugs and alcoholism

 

 

 

 

 

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Wholesome treatment for drug addicts

June 8, 2017
Wholesome treatment

Wholesome treatment for drug addicts is the best every patient can get

Wholesome treatment for drug addicts: Family Education

Wholesome treatment for substance abuse is important and speaking to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the leadership of Doctor Dalal Akoury MD, all states across the globe have seen the effects of alcohol and drug addiction and how it has escalated into millions of family members bearing the burden. Everybody is vulnerable regardless of your ethnicity or social group, rich or poor, drug and alcohol abuse can destroy relationships. Most of all, young children and adolescents suffer the greatest from the effects of substance abuse and alcohol in the family. That is why a collective treatment approach for all drug addicts needs to be embraced by all. When treatment is administered by experts to both individual and their families, healing is possible and most interestingly are that families can heal together. It is therefore very important that for the success of this noble assignment, the following are very necessary:

Wholesome treatment for drug addicts: Learning about drugs and seeking for help and support

Knowledge is power and therefore our abilities to cope with anything are a function of how much we know about what we are up against. Although you have been living with alcohol or drug problems for some time, learning about alcohol and drug addiction is a critical first step. You must get the facts about how alcohol and drugs affect the individual and the family right from the beginning and this is very important.

The disease of alcoholism and addiction is a family disease and affects everyone close to the person. Not only does the alcohol or drug user need help but even their loved ones too. It is important that together with other family members, you must get the appropriate education, help, and support in finding healthy ways to overcome the negative effects of the disease. At AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center we offer among other skills education, counseling and Mutual Aid/Support Groups which can help you realize that you are not alone, that you are not responsible for the drinking or drug use and that you need to take care of yourself, regardless of whether the person you are concerned about chooses to get help.

Wholesome treatment for drug addicts: Learning how to help

This is very important and therefore treatment programs, counseling, mutual aid support groups and much more are all options for getting help. Only the person using alcohol and drugs can make the decision to get help, nonetheless, you can also help calling your doctor or reaching out for professional assistance from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center by scheduling an appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury today for the commencement of your recovery journey.

Finally, while addiction to alcohol and drugs may not have known cure, the disease can be stopped by embracing abstinence from alcohol and other addictive drugs. Even though it may be difficult, the good news is that it is not impossible. With the right guidance, you can live your life well in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Find out how by calling doctor Akoury today.

Wholesome treatment for drug addicts: Family Education

 

 

 

 

 

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