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Adolescent addiction did you contribute

September 15, 2016
Adolescent addiction

Adolescent addiction did you contribute? Irrespective of how you respond consider residential addiction treatment for your loved ones

Adolescent addiction did you contribute: I would have learnt to listen?

Listening is very important not just in the prevention of adolescent addiction but in all matters of health and beyond. Experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury MD, says that listening is always the very first thing we must all chose to do. Listen to your children when they speak to us. Many times we often brash off what they say arguing that an addict doesn’t have anything worth listening to. Like in this case of doctor’s client, she says her son told her that there was nothing she could do to fix his problem. As a parent when you are told this, you may dispute it right away after all it is your duty to fix your children’s issues. Listening is very important because if she had done so, she would have sought the services of a professional. No addiction can be treated if the addict is in denial, and denial is one thing that only the addict can fix. So when this boy alluded to the fact that nothing could be done in his case, someone needed to have listen.

Adolescent addiction did you contribute: Listening is not seeking for answers

Professional advice are very important, parents must listen to them and apply their guidelines to the letter. It is very important to note that listening is different from looking for answers. Getting answers to questions or “what to do” solutions assume that there is a single answer or methodology that will awaken not just you but also your addicted loved one from this nightmare.

Another lesson we would be learning to listen to your own internal with what you are told by your son. Take time and evaluate in this order; what have you heard, what do you feel and why are you being scared? Any emotional reactions you may have will be as a result of all your unresolved internal struggles.

Finally, from this question, you can also pick this lesion as a parent. It is necessary that you learn to listen to your heart and your mind. Take time to reconcile what the two are saying. Like for instance your heart will tell you that where there is life, there is always hope. It allows you to love someone even if their actions may seem to be communicating otherwise. On the other hand your mind will speak the realities of life and tell you facts about drug addiction. It is important to appreciate those matters of the heart and the mind is not about winning or losing the argument. Your heart and your mind must be reconciled to work together in unity.

It is possible for your heart to accept that your son may die and in the same way it is also possible for your mind to understand that there may not be an answer for addiction and loving for just today is all you get. With those insights I appreciate that sometimes listening can be very difficult, but if this will help you get help to your children, then if am asked again what I wish I had done differently. Then I will give a straight answer that I wish I had learned how to listen to my children sooner. And now that you are a listening parent schedule for an appointment with doctor Akoury today to listen and apply some of her professional treatment options available for your addicted children.

Adolescent addiction did you contribute: I would have learnt to listen?

 

 

 

 

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Addiction recovery process is never easy

September 15, 2016
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Addiction recovery process is never easy and breaking its chain need real time commitment to the process

Addiction recovery process is never easy: Embracing love to teenage addicts

For some times now we have been following up on a story about the rough road of quitting heroin addiction in the previous article and for sure life as an addict is not everyone cup of tea. There is no peace in drug addiction and even during addiction recovery process you will still experience very strange things happening. In more than two decades of her medical practice in the line of addiction, doctor Dalal Akoury MD met this client and who recovered from heroin addiction the hard way. In her introduction in the previous article we show how she become homeless from time to time, running out of cash and wasting her life in less valuable activities. We want to further the discussion with a view of using this story to impact positively in the lives of many young people and also to seek for lasting solutions.

Addiction recovery process is never easy: Being homeless

At one point during the stay with my friend the story continues, I got word that my parents were coming for a vacation in the neighboring country and this trip could not have come at the right time. After being accommodated all this while, my friend had just given me notice that her roommate needed the couch for her guests who were visiting with her soon. This would have meant that I was going to be homeless again. The good news to me is that my parents were not just coming for me to have a roof over my head, but also at a time when the addiction healing process was picking up well. And so to play safe, I told my parents that I will be joining them for the vacation but am down with a very bad flu and needed a place to crush for sometimes.

Even though I was making this lie, my parents knew the truth because they had seen me go through it several times in the past even though they never commented about it. And with the assurance of getting accommodation and the love of my parents, I threw away all my bags and needles and headed to join them. I spent the next few weeks there shacked up in their bedroom, sleeping on an air mattress and refusing to leave the room. By and by the physical pain started to recede paving the way for mental anguish to hit like a train and this time I couldn’t move. I cried a lot struggling to hide the real thing from my parents but it was pointless and I just didn’t care.

Realizing that I’ve been diagnosed with bipolar, I figured what is the difference between this and a depressive episode, anyway? So I rode it out like anyone else. So many things crossed my mind including suicide but I just didn’t have the strength to follow through with any of my half assessed plans. I thought about trying to find dope in this city however hard it could be but I was so depressed that the idea of trying to get out of bed was exhausting enough, let alone getting dressed and leaving the house. Besides, I had no money and I knew my parents didn’t trust me so what was I going to do? Steal money? Forget it. I didn’t have the strength. Are you following how addiction recovery process comes at a price? Why wait to this point if you can easily be helped by doctor Dalal Akoury who is just a phone call away? Choose wisely today.

Addiction recovery process is never easy: Embracing love to teenage addicts

 

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Challenging relapse experience during recovery

September 15, 2016
Challenging relapse experience

Challenging relapse experience during recovery when defeated makes patients even much committed to the recovery program

Challenging relapse experience during recovery: The process is never easy

When we said that addiction recovery process isn’t easy you can appreciate that from the story of this client. Having been on treatment, she is now facing all the challenging relapse experiences. And in her own words she says that, “the next thing that came in my mind now that am that weak is to go online hoping to connect with people who might be able to help but no luck there. I ended up reaching out to the guy whom I had dated shortly for like a week before I move to another town. As fate would have it, he had also been kicked out of his house around the same time and had left the state. But he missed me a lot and wanted to come back. Because I needed company of a friend, I requested my mother if my “boyfriend” could stay with us for a while and like a loving mother to her only daughter she agreed. So he hopped the first plane over here. And that’s how my real life started, I suppose.”

I ended up marrying that guy and having a child and then divorcing him almost immediately and now we are working things out or whatever. But the most important thing is that we don’t do heroin any more. And we don’t use needles. We are both well aware of the pain and the consequences of the drug. Still we seem to have different views. I feel like there is a junkie living in my head and it will never go away. For this reason, I think of myself as forever an addict and I don’t trust that I will turn down a shot if offered. He claims to feel no desire for the drug at all but he was not as hard into it as I was. He didn’t even know how to shoot up on his own; I remember at some point I had shot him up a few times and clearly he wasn’t as much an addict as I was. That may be good for him but I will never rid myself of that voice in my head, my inner junkie. She is locked away in the back of my mind but she is always screaming and begging to be let out. There’s always that suggestion of just one time. Just one hit for fun this time. I’m in control because I have chosen to. Those are some of the challenging relapse experience during recovery.

Challenging relapse experience during recovery: Cold turkey heroin

Finally, if you ask me what cold turkey heroin withdrawal does to a person, I will tell you that it searches deep within the reaches of your mind for any shred of hope and joy  or anything resembling such and destroys it completely, killing it brutally and mercilessly. It leaves you just as a shadow of your former self. And for some, it never ends. In some form or another, it stays with you for life. That is why doctor Dalal Akoury founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center to help you cope with all these withdrawal challenges. You can call doctor Akoury today to book for an appointment with her for a more professional recovery treatment process.

Challenging relapse experience during recovery: The process is never easy

 

 

 

 

 

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Parents responsibilities in taming drug abuse

September 15, 2016
Parents responsibilities

Being a role model is possible when parents responsibilities in taming drug abuse is upheld

Parents responsibilities in taming drug abuse: Taking up the mantle to defeat addiction

If you have not been there it may seems like listening to music or watching a movie which you are not obligated to act on from the comfort of your living room. Many parents, guardians and care givers to children may not be aware of the indicators of different forms of addiction and so when they are attributed to our children, we ignorantly become very defensive. I agree with the sentiment that our children are the most important people in our lives, and this importance must be protected even as we choose to protect them to the last dollar. That is why this article is tailored to helping you get to understand the parents responsibilities in taming drug abuse in the lives of our children and the societies at large. In our line of duty at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center a medical facility established by doctor Dalal Akoury to offer solutions to all people across the globe suffering from drug addiction, we met a couple whom we want to use their experience to help many parents out there do the right things in solving the problems of addiction in our children.

From their experience the couples explain and throughout the discussion the man of the house was sharing what they did and did not do to help their son when he needed them the most. And he says “I feel deep sympathy and compassion toward parents and guardians who are just beginning to come to terms with the terrible journey of their children’s drug addiction and those facing the mayhem of a next step which is the treatment aspect: rehab, incarceration, dislodging the addict from the family home. We have been there and what we went through is something that will forever be fresh in our minds (I and my wife). We have been there and we want to share our story with you on this plat form to help you and many others get ready for the possibilities and impossibilities.

Parents responsibilities in taming drug abuse: The lessons learnt the hard way

Dear parents the following are some of the inputs that we want to share with you from what we have been through. It is important for all parents to appreciate the following:

  • Parents are enablers
  • I cannot fix his
  • My addict is a liar
  • My addict is a criminal
  • Others don’t want them around
  • Life will not be the same
  • Homelessness may be the path he chooses

In many cases due to being protective to our children, we get into denial. Being in denial made us to fight among ourselves and point fingers at each other as to who did what or dint do what. Listening became a problem and even when we were told by our friends and neighbors, we took offence for we knew our son better than them and that he is a well behaved boy who cannot get into drugs. Nonetheless today we have come to accept these truths and now it is much easier to deal with the heartache and we’ve become more effective helpers for our son in his struggle with addiction thanks to the help we got from doctor Dalal Akoury. Going forward we are to look at some of the lessons mentions above briefly in the next article and you don’t want to be left out.

Parents responsibilities in taming drug abuse: Taking up the mantle to defeat addiction

 

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Parental duties in controlling drug addiction

September 15, 2016
Parental duties

Parental duties in controlling drug addiction inspires and motivates users to agree to medication

Parental duties in controlling drug addiction: Taming substance abuse

While looking at drug addiction experiences by parents caring for addicts in our previous article, we highlighted certain lesion points from what other parents have experience while exercising their parental duties in controlling drug addiction. It became clear that most of us have let our children plunge in to the intoxication of addiction, for very simple reasons like denial. Of the seven lessons we were able to address the first one and now with the help of doctor Dalal Akoury MD a veteran addiction expert and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, we want to progress with the remaining lesions as we progress into this discussion as follows:

  1. I cannot fix this
  2. My addict is a liar
  3. My addict is a criminal
  4. Others don’t want them around
  5. Life will not be the same
  6. Homelessness may be the path he chooses

Parental duties in controlling drug addiction: I cannot fix this

Doctor Akoury has maintained that the first step in the addiction treatment is making self-acknowledgement that you have a problem which needs to be fixed. It is true that as loving parents we would always want to fix all the problems of our children irrespective of the challenges involved. However no one has access of our addict’s children’s minds besides themselves. This you can’t fix for them as a parent. All you can do is to be supportive and loving to them. Remember that no meaningful recovery program will succeed where the patient is in denial. Therefore any loving parent trying to force this decision on the children is likely to fail and get frustrated as they watch their children sink into addiction. Therefor parental duties in controlling drug abuse demands that we seek for help from the experts and doctor Akoury will be very helpful if only you can schedule for an appointment with her today.

Parental duties in controlling drug addiction: My addict is a liar

Traditionally addicts will often find something to hide their habits with and ensure that their real business is not exposed. It is possible that when they are making all these efforts of concealment, they may not be in their proper senses to tell exactly what they are doing. Normally their motive is sincere of trying to seek your approval of their deeds and not really for pride. It is also true that most addicts are not happy with themselves for their actions are only that they have no way out at least while still in that state of mind. At this point their only survival ways would be to seek for some approval by telling lies no matter the consequences.

As parents we will be laid to whether it is an innocent lie or not, it will still remain to be a lie. Like in my case when my addicted son tells me that he is not abusing drugs, I don’t buy that and instead I tell him repeatedly that “my eyes can hear even better than my ears” because ideally what they say is not what is really happening.  It is therefore very important that we make efforts of finding facts for ourselves and not relying on what the children tell us.

Parental duties in controlling drug addiction: Taming substance abuse

 

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