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Relapse combine with withdrawal symptoms

June 15, 2017
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Relapse combine with withdrawal symptoms can be discouraging but all the same, pick up the pieces and keep focusing on the bigger goals

Relapse combine with withdrawal symptoms: Addiction treatment approaches

When the first obstacle of denial is contained and both direct and indirect victims consent that there is a problem that needs fixing, you can always say that this marks the beginning of the recovery journey. It is much easier to enroll an individual who is ready to be helped and knows why he or she is going through the rehabilitation process. However, the one who is still rooted in denial and non-acceptance of the real situation in his or her life is difficult to help. Nevertheless, upon defeating the problem of denial, treatment can now begin. Moreover, much as we would wish that it be smooth all the way, this is not always the case says doctor Akoury. Along the way, there will be other obstacles relating to relapse combine with withdrawal symptoms which can occur at any time during and even several years after rehabilitation.

Relapse combine with withdrawal symptoms: The many dimensions of drug abuse and addiction

In the meantime, because drug abuse and addiction have so many dimensions that rearrange and disrupt so many aspects of an individual’s life, treatment is not often very simple. The point is that for an effective treatment program for this condition, it is necessary that the approach given be typical and accommodative thereby incorporating many treatment components with each component being directed to a particular aspect of the illness and its consequences. The objective of any addiction treatment must always be clear that it must help the individual stop using drugs, maintain a drug-free lifestyle, and achieve productive functioning in the family, at work, and in the society. In spite of this says doctor Akoury that because addiction is typically a chronic disease, ordinarily people cannot simply stop using drugs for a few days and be cured? Therefore in many cases, ideally most patients will require long-term or repeated episodes of care to achieve the ultimate goal of sustained abstinence and recovery of their lives. That is why the problem of relapse and withdrawal symptoms are always a major threat to the recovery process. That is not to scare you of anything but just to inform you that when such happens, it is not the end of the road for you. Relapse is normal and when it happens, the most important thing is how you quickly pick the pieces and bet back on the ruck.

Finally, just to instill the spirit of hope in you, whenever you fall to the temptation of cravings it is very important that you pick up and seek help in the event that you are being overwhelmed. Remember that the doors of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury, are always open for you anytime any day. All you need to do is to make a phone call to doctor Dalal Akoury to schedule an appointment and your concerns will be addressed professionally and timely.

Relapse combine with withdrawal symptoms: Addiction treatment approaches

 

 

 

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Societal addiction mischief

June 15, 2017
Societal addiction mischief

Societal addiction mischief will always be there but the bottom line is that addiction is a medical problem like any other

Societal addiction mischief: Is addiction a disease?

The numerous factors surrounding societal addiction mischief makes it very difficult for people to accept its realities. Even though many people think otherwise, addiction is like any other disease and it is not a sign of weakness of character on both the direct victim and the indirect victims. We must be on top of everything about addiction if we want to ever make any meaningful progress towards its elimination from our lives and to the general societies. Let’s consider the following facts as we progress into the discussion.

Addiction is like most major diseases – Consider heart disease, the leading cause of death the world over. Medically this health condition is partly due to genes or poor lifestyle choices like bad diet, lack of exercise and smoking. The same is true for other common diseases like adult-onset diabetes. Many forms of cancers are due to a combination of genes and lifestyle. These are facts we believe and accept each time our physicians deliver the diagnosis result, what is worrying is when your doctor said that you had diabetes or heart disease, you wouldn’t think and as a matter of fact nobody would see you as a bad person. In fact, you would take it positively and start thinking about solutions. That is how you should approach addiction. If this could be the attitude of everybody, then treatment can be administered more effectively and timely for a speedy recovery.

Addiction is not a weakness – The fact that addiction crosses all socio-economic boundaries confirms that addiction is a disease. People who don’t know about addiction will tell you that you just need to be stronger to control your use. If that was true then only unsuccessful people or unmotivated people would have an addiction and yet 10% of high-functioning executives have an addiction. If you think of addiction as a weakness, you’ll paint yourself into a corner that you can’t get out of. You’ll focus on being stronger and trying to control your use, instead of treating addiction like a disease and focusing on stopping your use.

Societal addiction mischief: Cross addiction

You can become addicted to any drug if you have a family history of addiction. It is important to note that if at least one of your family members is addicted to alcohol, then this gives you a greater risk of developing an addiction to any other drug. Cross addiction occurs because all addictions work in the same part of the brain. If your brain is wired so that you’re predisposed to one addiction, then you’re predisposed to all addictions. This is especially important for women who may come from alcoholic families, but who often develop addictions that go undetected, like addictions to tranquilizers, pain relievers, or eating disorders.

One addiction can lead to other addictions, and one drug can make you relapse on another drug. That’s one of the consequences of a brain that’s wired for addiction. Suppose you’re addicted to cocaine, for example, if you want to stop using cocaine then it is important that for you to succeed, you will have to stop using all other addictive drugs including alcohol and marijuana. You may never have had a problem with either of them, but if you continue to use alcohol or marijuana, even when it is casual, they’ll eventually lead you back to your drug of choice. Remember that in order to be on top of addiction abstinence should be your ultimate goal because true recovery requires total abstinence says doctor Akoury.

Societal addiction mischief: Is addiction a disease?

 

 

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Withdrawal symptoms episodes

June 15, 2017
Withdrawal symptoms episodes

Withdrawal symptoms episodes can be a stumbling block for timely recovery

Withdrawal symptoms episodes: Post-acute withdrawal symptoms (PAWS)

In our effort of trying to facing the problems associated with alcohol and substance abuse, it is very common that along the way we’ll meet challenges from patient denial to relapse after several weeks or months of undisputed commitment to both the patient and our experts who are administering treatment to them. One of the ways we have found out to be working for us is by establishing professional ways of dealing with the withdrawal symptoms episodes or post-acute withdrawal symptoms PAWS also known as the dual diagnosis in addiction. Doctor Dalal Akoury who is the MD and founder of this facility (AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center) is not just any doctor but a veteran addiction experts with a passion for helping people get better from the state of hopelessness to a new life of total fulfillment and freedom from drug addiction and misuse of alcohol. In her several decades of practice, she has established that in some instances these persistent symptoms in recovery will be a sign that the individual is dealing with some other issue other than their addiction problem.

As a matter of fact, it is now recognized that a significant number of addicts have a dual diagnosis and the most disturbing part of it is that they are ignorant of it. The implication of that is that besides their addiction problem, they are also struggling with other complications such as depression, anxiety disorder, or bipolar disorder. It will not, therefore, surprise you to note that this other undiagnosed problem could be responsible their incentive into substance abuse and misuse of alcohol in the first place. And when things get out of hand, users may attempt to self-medicate in order to escape the criticism from the society and even very close relatives.

From the professional point of view says doctor Akoury, if for whatever reason users of these substances ignore treatment thereby creating some pending treatment issues, the implication of that is very clear in the sense that any untreated dual diagnosis can actually prevent them from finding happiness in recovery? Some people may just dismiss their symptoms as Post-Acute Withdrawal Symptoms (PAWS), and this means that they delay in seeking treatment. It is always advisable to seek a professional opinion if the individual is finding it difficult to settle into recovery due to unpleasant symptoms. In most instances, it will be possible to manage the dual diagnosis so that the individual will be able to build a successful recovery. Doctor Dalal Akoury can be of help to you if only you can call her today.

Withdrawal symptoms episodes: Other causes of symptoms in early recovery

In some relatively rare cases, the individual may have more significant problems that can result in continued symptoms in long-term recovery. Those who have developed conditions such as alcoholic dementia may have caused irreversible damage to their brain. The individual may be able to learn how to function at a higher level, but in some cases, they will just have to adapt to living with this mental impairment.

Withdrawal symptoms episodes: Post-acute withdrawal symptoms (PAWS)

 

 

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Marijuana street descriptions and names

June 15, 2017
Marijuana street descriptions

Marijuana street descriptions and names may not matter when it comes to its effects on the brain

Marijuana street descriptions and names: The administration mode

Marijuana street descriptions and names are very many. Users have identified some of the street names as pot, weed, herb, dope, reefer, grass etc., despite the many names, the modes of administration into the body remain the same which is through smoking. Besides, that marijuana can also be taken in as a mixture of baked goods like cookies or brownies and also brewed as a tea. According to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, a more concentrated, higher THC content and resinous form of marijuana are called hashish and it comes in the form of a sticky black liquid, hash oil. Doctor Akoury says that the smoke of this substance often has a pungent and distinctive, usually sweet-and-sour odor. Marijuana is sometimes laced with crack cocaine and hallucinogen phencyclidine (PCP), making marijuana even more dangerous.

Marijuana street descriptions and names: Short-term effects

It is important to note that the effects of marijuana are generally felt within a few minutes and reach a peak between 10 and 30 minutes. Overall, most of the marijuana’s short-term effects wear off within 2 or 3 hours and that explains why users often take it repeatedly to realize the high.

How does marijuana affect the brain? This is very important because when someone smokes marijuana, THC is absorbed by the lungs and into the bloodstream, which then transports the THC to the brain and to all other organs of the body, producing the “high” that users experience. The parts of the brain most affected include those that influence pleasure, memory, thinking, concentration, sensory and time perception and coordination of movement.

Marijuana street descriptions and names: Long-term effects

According to NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse), research has shown that, in chronic users, marijuana’s adverse impact on learning and memory can last for days or weeks after the acute effects of the drug wear off. Because of this, a daily user of marijuana may be functioning at a suboptimal intellectual level all of the time. Research has also shown poorer cognitive abilities than non-users, including memory capability, math and verbal skills and that explains why marijuana is very addictive in nature.

Even though users will tell you that marijuana is not addictive, the fact is that year after year our more teens are admitted in various health facilities for treatment with a primary diagnosis of marijuana dependence than all other illicit drugs combined. This according to the studies carried out by NIDA, long-term marijuana use can lead to addiction for about 9% of users and increases among those who start young to about 17% and daily users between 25-50%. Because of the addictiveness nature of the substance, long term users who are trying to quit always suffer withdrawal symptoms including irritability, sleeplessness, decreased appetite, anxiety, and drug craving. The symptoms begin within a day after last use and peak at 2-3 days and latter subside within 1 or 2 weeks. Your concerns after reading this piece of information can be addressed professionally upon the schedule for an appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury today for a one on one discussion.

Marijuana street descriptions and names: The administration mode

 

 

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Outpatient detoxification for opioids

June 15, 2017
Outpatient detoxification

Outpatient detoxification for opioids works well for busy personalities who may not find time for admission

Outpatient detoxification for opioids: How beneficial is it?

People get addicted to various drugs despite knowledge of their consequences. When one is getting into drugs, initially it is voluntary but as they get used to it, the addictive nature of the substance takes effect and they become prisoners of the drug to the point that they can’t do without it. If this state progresses for a long time the level of addiction becomes stronger and within no time the individual graduates to more powerful substances or takes more of the same to attain the high they expect at their new level of addiction. While these are happening, many times we often fail to take action to remedy the situation. It’s this failure that we want to correct even as we focus on the topic outpatient detoxification for opioid painkillers with a view of finding lasting solutions.

We spoke to the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center to help us in bringing this topic to perspective and doctor Dalal Akoury (MD) a veteran addiction expert and founder of the facility (AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center) is registering that “under normal circumstances patients addicted to opioid painkillers achieve good results with outpatient detoxification.” This according to one of the recently NIDA-funded clinical trial, it was established that a significant portion of individuals who are addicted to opioid painkillers may initiate and maintain abstinence with a brief but intensive outpatient detoxification treatment followed by opioid antagonist therapy using naltrexone. From this trial, it was evident that patients achieved higher abstinence rates than are typically obtained with detoxification regimens. The duration of a taper with buprenorphine/naloxone (Bp/Nx) was a determinative factor in patients’ success, with longer tapers yielding greater abstinence.

Outpatient detoxification for opioids: Research findings based on tested opioid users

In this trial, Dr. Dalal Akoury and her team of experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center studied the findings from the enrolled 70 adults who were addicted to opioid painkillers into a double-blind, randomized clinical trial that involved a three-step detoxification process:

  • Stabilization on a Bp/Nx (Suboxone) dosage that suppresses withdrawal symptoms, craving, and use of illicit opioid painkillers
  • Gradual tapering of the Bp/Nx dose to zero over 1, 2, or 4 weeks
  • Transition to the opioid antagonist naltrexone once a patient provides opioid-negative urine samples and reports no opioid use within the past 24 hours

Under this trial says doctor Akoury, away from other treatment the participants also received twice-weekly behavioral therapy using the evidence-based Community Reinforcement Approach and underwent thrice-weekly staff-observed urinalysis testing? Supplementary non-opioid medications were used as needed to treat breakthrough withdrawal symptoms. The patients randomly assigned to the 4-week Bp/Nx taper provided the highest percentage of illicit opioid–free urine samples during the 12-week trial. Of these 22 patients, 63 percent were abstinent at the 5-week mark, and 50 percent were still opioid-abstinent at the end of the 12-week trial. In contrast, 29 percent of each of the two groups receiving shorter tapers provided drug-free urine samples at 5 weeks, and 20 percent or less of each provided drug-free samples at 12 weeks. Similar findings were seen with adherence to naltrexone ingestion and treatment retention.

Outpatient detoxification for opioids: How beneficial is it?

 

 

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