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Lung Cancer

July 18, 2014

Lung Cancer – Your Risk factors

Lung cancer

Lung cancer treatment start with quitting smoking because smoking contributes to 85% of all reported lung cancer problems

I know that at the mere mention of the name cancer when the doctor is examining your health condition you are likely to frown even if the doctor was not referring to your case. This is because cancer is a disease that scares people both the sick and the other family. When a member of the family is down with cancer everybody is concern. Many will wonder that if cancer is in the family and it is hereditary who is going to be the next victim or casualty? These concerns are justified and therefore it is only important that we do all we can to reduce the risk factors as much as we can. What can be avoided should and must be avoided so that we do not find ourselves in this state of panic. A risk factor for lung cancer is anything capable of increasing ones chances of getting lung cancer. It is important on the onset to understand that having one or more of the risk factors is not a conclusion that one is definitely going to contract lung cancer it is not always the case. There are just indications of risks and not finality, as a matter of fact one may portray a number of these factors but is still free from cancer while one who did not have any of the risk factors end up being diagnosed with lung cancer. I am put a lot of emphasis on this so that you are not scared in anyway.

Lung Cancer – Smoking

Cigarette smoking is one of the major risk factors of lung cancer and allow me to repeat once more that it is not automatic that if you are smoking then you will definitely get lung cancer no, you only have higher risk but not definite. Back to the discussion, as a risk factor it is estimated that out of a total of 100, 85 lung cancers are directly related to cigarette smoking be it cigars or pipe smoking all increases ones risk for lung cancer. As a smoker it is important that you are aware of the dangers of smoking because your risk of getting lung cancer increases depending on the quantity and the duration of smoking.

Quitting smoking however lowers your risk for getting cancer the good news about all this is that your risk will go down even if you partially stop for example if you are used to smoking one packet of 40 sticks of cigarette daily and you reduce it by half this reduction will go a long way in reducing your risk of getting lung cancer. Even though there will be reduction even on partial quitting it will be much better if you quit completely.

The risk associated to cigarette smoking is also extended to secondhand smokers. That is to say people who do not smoke at all but stays around smokers. Because of the nicotine emanating from the smoke of cigarette burns, if these are inhaled by these none smokers then they are equally in danger of contracting lung cancer as a result of this simple action.

Lung Cancer – Other risks

It is not all about cigarette smoking that increases the risk factors of lung cancers, we have other risks as well. The exposure to some addictive substances may increase your risk for lung cancer and such substances may include:

  • Marijuana – This is a very powerful substance whose effect is very significant. Smoking just one marijuana cigarette, or a joint, has the capability of affecting the lungs to the tune of smoking a whole pack of cigarettes.
  • Certain chemicals – These include arsenic and asbestos they are equally able to increase the risk.
  • Radiation – This come a result of exposures from your work place, medical tests, or from the environment (such as radioactive dust).
  • Radon gas – This includes exposure from your home or work place.
  • Air pollution – Living where the air is polluted can increase your risk for lung cancer due to the inhalation of contaminated oxygen.

Risk of lung cancer may also come due to changes in gene mutations. These gene changes often occur as one approaches old age. As precautionary measure it is important to seek for medical attention immediately if you:

  • Experience unexpected onset of chest pain which is characterized by crushing or squeezing and is progressing in intensity, or appears with symptoms associated to heart attack like shortness of breath and nausea.
  • Experiencing sudden difficulty in breathing.
  • If you are coughing up a lot of blood (not just streaks of blood or a small amount of blood mixed with a lot of mucus) from your lungs.
  • Have been vomiting and feeling that you are likely to pass out when you sit up or stand for some time.

As mention earlier cancer is a very devastating illness and it will be advisable that you are always in constant touch with your doctor to find out when an evaluation is needed resulting from your health experiences like if you:

  • Have new chest pain (more than just discomfort when you cough) that lasts a long time and deteriorate when you take a deep breathe.
  • Develop symptoms of pneumonia like shortness of breath, cough, and fever.
  • Have a cough that produces a small amount of bloody (bright red or rust-colored) mucus.
  • Frequently cough up yellow or green mucus from your lungs (not postnasal drainage) for longer than 2 days.
  • Vomit regularly when coughing.
  • Have a prolonged cough that goes for four weeks or even more.
  • When you breathe normally when you resting but lucks breathe after undertaking on a physical activity.
  • Experience increasing fatigue for no good reason.
  • Have suddenly begun losing weight.

Finally it is very costly treating cancer than preventing it. We have discussed some of the risk factors involved with smoking taking being the key in relation to lung cancer. We have a duty to defend our self and our loved ones from the frustration of lung cancer by ensuring that what we can prevent in prevented. Drug addictions of any kind must be treated soonest and to do this experts and only known experts must be engaged at all levels. At AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center a facility founded by Doctor Akoury to help people addicted to various substances get solutions to their addiction. She has been in administering addiction treatment to patient around the globe in a very special and unique way that leave patients well and sound in record time. I encourage you to visit this facility and doctor Akoury together with her team of experts will ensure total focus on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE. Your well-being is our priority and your decision to visiting us is the best for it will give you your life back and reduce and possibly eliminate your risk of lung cancer.

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Asthma and Smoking

July 18, 2014

Asthma and Smoking – Drug Addiction

Smoking

It is never fan smoking your life into destruction. cigarette smoking has no place in human life

Have you ever heard someone speak about smoking in total praise of good result they get from smoking? When you listen to cigarette being marketed through the media do they scare you with their remarks of dangers of smoking? Do the cigarette packets communicate good nutrition to you? Will you be healthy after smoking? Get the answers to these questions for yourself and follow me on this article and I believe that together we can be of help to many people addicted to cigarette smoking. I want to believe that this is not the first time you are hearing of poor relationship between asthma and cigarette smoking. You may not have appreciated that abstinence or quitting smoking when diagnose with asthma is the most important way you can take to protecting your lungs, facilitating treatment and preventing of asthma symptoms. To be honest with you if you’re suffering from asthma yet you’re still smoking you are doing your health a lot of injustice.

Reasons for Quitting Smoking

I am persuaded that you have heard the effects of smoking to you or to individuals diagnosed with asthma and to the general health of smokers and to those around them. It is a pity that some of our actions make us cause injuries to the innocent people around us. It is because of the great dangers and our desire to help you get the best life can offer that I write passionately about addiction and possible solutions. If you are smoking or you know of a friend or somebody smoking you can be of help to them by sharing this link to them so that they can get the following tips to help them enjoy the benefits of quitting smoking which include the following:

  • Because of reduced health risks your life will be prolonged.
  • Attainment of good health; Smoking is associated with several increase of health risk like lung cancer, throat cancer, a lung disease called emphysema (also known as COPD), heart disease, high blood pressure, ulcers, gum disease quitting reduces these risks significantly.
  • Feeling healthier; quitting smoking will reduce and eventually eliminates coughing, poor athletic ability, and sore throats.
  • Good looking appearance; smoking can cause face wrinkles, stained teeth, and dull skin which will go away by quitting smoking?
  • Improve your sense of taste and smell
  • You will be saving money by quitting since you will no longer spend on cigarette.

Possibilities of Quitting Smoking

Cigarette smoking is an addiction that is not east to recover from, because of this it becomes a problem since there is not particular formula applicable in quitting smoking particularly to those suffering from asthma however a smoking cessation program may be helpful with the help of your doctor taking you through smoking cessation programs in your community. Before you choose to quit all at once (“cold turkey”) it is important that you set a plan which will help progress. The plan may incorporate the following:

  • Settle on a date to stop smoking, and work toward achieving it.
  • Document when and why you smoke this is helpful in identification of some of your triggers.
  • Have in record what you do when smoking and try doing the opposite like smoking at different times and different places to break the connections between your smoking habit and certain activities.
  • List down all your reasons for quitting and memorize them before and after you quit.
  • Engage in positive activities to take the place of smoking.
  • Always consult your doctor concerning using nicotine replacement products such as gum, lozenges, and patches. Some people find these aids very helpful.

Asthma and Smoking – Quitting Time

On your choice day of quitting, begin that morning without a cigarette. Then follow the following tips:

  • Never concentrate on what you are longing for instead think about what you are gaining.
  • Encourage yourself that you are a great person for quitting.
  • When you are tempted to smoke take a deep breath and hold it for about 10 seconds and then release it slowly.
  • Disengage from activities that were connected to smoking like taking a walk or read a book instead of taking a cigarette break.
  • Don’t carry a lighter, matches, or cigarettes.
  • Go to places that don’t allow smoking, such as museums and libraries.
  • Eat low-calorie, healthful foods when the urge to smoke strikes. Carrot and celery sticks, fresh fruits, and fat-free snacks are good choices. Avoid sugary or spicy foods that may lead to cigarette craving.
  • Drink a lot of fluids. Avoid alcoholic drinks. They can make you want to smoke. Select water, herbal teas, caffeine-free soft drinks, and juices.
  • Exercise. It will help you to relax.
  • Hang out with non-smokers.
  • Seek support for quitting. Tell others about your milestones with pride.
Benefits of Quitting Smoking
  • After twenty minutes stopping smoking: Your blood pressure and pulse rate begin to decrease. Circulation and the temperature of your hands and feet begin to increase.
  • After twelve hours of not smoking: The carbon monoxide level in your blood returns to normal.
  • After two weeks to three months of not smoking: Your chance of heart attack decreases and your lungs function better
  • After one to nine months of not smoking: Coughing and shortness of breath decrease
  • After one year of not smoking: Your risk of heart disease decreases to half that of a smoker’s risk
  • After five to fifteen years of not smoking: Your risk of getting mouth, throat, or esophagus cancer drops to half that of a smoker.
  • After ten years of quitting smoking: Your risk of dying from lung cancer drops to almost half that of a smoker and your risk of other cancers, such as cancer of the bladder, larynx, kidney, and pancreas decreases
  • After fifteen years of quitting smoking: Your risk of heart disease decreases to that of a nonsmoker.

It is important noting that the temptation of smoking again (relapse) will always come. If they do be encouraged that you are not alone many people who have successfully quitted relapsed three times before the success. It is because of these challenges that you will need to be in constant touch with addiction professionals all the way and therefore being at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under Doctor Akoury’s care you will be professionally assisted overcome all your challenges by focusing on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE. This way you will live a health life free from all elements of addiction.

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Smoking and Heart Disease

July 18, 2014

Smoking and Heart Disease – Drug Addiction

Smoking

Smoking causes heart disease and the solution is to quit smoking it is fatal

Those who are addicted to cigarette smoking may not know that they are smoking their life out of their system. They are also not aware that by sticking to this habit of smoking they have deliberately chosen the first lane leading them to their early grave. I will make effort in this article to state things as they really are because it is more helpful to know the whole truth as they are. The objective is not to scare you in anyway but to give you the clear picture of what cigarette smoking can do to you and the people around you. Because there is no safe smoking I will put it that by choosing the highway of smoking you are quietly committing suicide you may not agree with that but if the end result is that fatal then you are truly on that high speed locomotive of death. Throughout this article we will be interrogating the human heart one of the most vital organs in the body and how smoking affects its functions.

It is true that many people link cigarette smoking with respiratory problems and lung cancer which is just one of the many negatives of smoking but what many do not know is that smoking is also a major cause of heart disease to both genders. It is estimated that about twenty percent of deaths reported in the U.S are related to heart diseases explaining the reason why smoking is a major cause of heart attack.

Heart (attack) Disease

Heart attack has it characteristics. The risks of those characteristics are significantly multiplied in the systems of smokers. For instance if you smoke on a daily basis  one pack of cigarette your risk of heart attack will twice more than non-smokers. This is the general effects to all genders but specifically to smoking women and are using birth control pills, such individuals will have their risk of heart attack, blood clot, stroke and peripheral vascular disease significantly increased.

The dangers of smoking cigarette do not only affect smokers but also people around them. Even though the people around smokers may not be smoking in their own right they will develop health problems related to the environmental tobacco smoke also known as secondhand smoking or passive smoking. Children are the most affected as a result of passive smoking but generally secondhand smoking causes chronic respiratory conditions, heart disease and cancer. Research has established that about 35,000 passive smokers die annually from heart disease. Now reflecting on the highway of death you can now begin to appreciate that indulgence in cigarette smoking is for sure suicidal.

Smoking Increase Heart Disease Risk

The nicotine present in cigarettes is transported straight to the bloodstream and the result is:

  • Insufficient oxygen to the heart.
  • Undue blood pressure and heart rate.
  • Increase in blood clotting.
  • Mutilation to cells aligning coronary arteries and other blood vessels.

Benefits of Quitting Smoking to your Heart and Lifestyle

Now that you are appreciating how smoking is harmful to your health and those around you, the following are some of the benefits of quitting smoking:

  • Extend your lifetime significantly.
  • Decreases your risk of contracting disease (including heart disease, heart attack, high blood pressure, lung cancer, throat cancer, emphysema, ulcers, gum disease, and other conditions).
  • Feel healthier. After quitting, you won’t cough as much, you’ll have fewer sore throats, and you will increase your stamina.
  • Look better. Quitting can help you prevent face wrinkles, get rid of stained teeth, and improve your skin.
  • Improve your sense of taste and smell.
  • Save money.
How to Quit Smoking

Quitting smoking is not an easy task however the first step is to have that self-conviction that you want to quit smoking and not to be motivated by the desire to please your friends or family. You must in the process be ready to all rounds emotionally and mentally this will helps in planning for your recovery. To get started you may choose from the following guidelines:

Put down all your reasons for quitting in writing and read them daily before, in the process and after quitting. You may want to consider these tips:

  • Remember to write down when you smoke, why you smoke, and what you do when you smoking. This will help you know your triggers and avoid them.
  • Choose to stop smoking in certain situations (such as during your work break or after dinner) before actually quitting.
  • Create a list of activities you can do instead of smoking. Be ready to do something else when you want to smoke.
  • Ask your doctor about using nicotine gum or patches. Some people find these aids helpful. There are also drugs to help you quit smoking, such as Chantix and Wellbutrin.
  • Join a smoking cessation support group or program. Call your local chapter of the American Lung Association to find one.
How Will I Feel When I Quit Smoking?

When you stop smoking, you may crave cigarettes, be irritable, feel very hungry, cough often, get headaches, or have difficulty concentrating. These symptoms of withdrawal occur because your body is used to nicotine, the active addicting agent within cigarettes.

When withdrawal symptoms occur within the first two weeks after quitting, stay in control. Think about your reasons for quitting. Remind yourself that these are signs that your body is healing and getting used to being without cigarettes.

The withdrawal symptoms are only temporary. They are strongest when you first quit but will usually ease within 10 to 14 days. Remember that withdrawal symptoms are easier to treat than the major diseases that smoking can cause.

You may still have the desire to smoke, since there are many strong associations with smoking. People may associate smoking with specific situations, with a variety of emotions, or with certain people in their lives. The best way to overcome these associations is to experience them without smoking. If you relapse do not lose hope. Seventy-five percent of those who quit smoke again. Most smokers quit three times before they are successful. If you relapse, don’t give up! Plan ahead and think about what you will do next time you get the urge to smoke.

The good news is your risk of a heart attack is cut in half within two weeks of quitting smoking. After 15 smoke free years, your risk is similar to that of a person who has never smoked. Dear reader listen to the good news in this last paragraph isn’t it what you want? You will get it at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, an addiction facility founded by Doctor Akoury who has a passion in helping addicts recover from their addiction irrespective of the magnitude. Doctor Akoury together with her team of experts of several decades will focus on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE. What an opportunity the ball of good health is in your coat.

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Quitting Smoking

July 17, 2014

Quitting Smoking – Drug Addiction

If there is anything good you can do for yourself, is to quite smoking and kick it out of not just your life but also out of your neighborhood.

Have you ever wondered how and why smokers turn themselves in kitchen chimney that billows smoke from the very vital organs of their bodies! What amazes me is that all smokers are not ignorance of what the dangers they are putting themselves to. Despite of all the warnings visibly indicated on the packaging and all adverts run people still smoke as if smoking gives them certain values in life. This is very disturbing and we have deliberately decided to create an impact into seeing people adopt positive behaviors that do not endanger their own lives and that of others around them. It is my wish that reading this article will help you make the right decision of quitting your habit of smocking and if you are not a smoker then you will be able to help someone who is already smoking. I will then ask you a simple question do you want to quit smoking? If your answer is yes then I hope this article will be helpful to you.

Dear reader I want to bring to your attention a few facts about smoking and quitting. It is all about good news in stopping smoking because just within hours of stopping cigarettes smoking, your body begins to recover almost immediately from the effects of nicotine and all additives. Blood pressure, heart rate, and body temperature all of which are raised because of the nicotine in cigarettes normalize to healthier levels. The capacity of your lung also increases and the bronchial tubes feels relaxed making breathing much easier. The toxic carbon monoxide in your blood also decreases permitting the blood to transport more oxygen within the body’s systems. I can tell you for sure that quitting smoking is one of the best things you can do for your own health.

Challenges in Quitting Smoking

This is not an easy exercise by all means but it is not impossible either, the difficulties will depend on a number of factors like:

  • The number of cigarettes sticks you smoke on a daily basis.
  • The kind of association you keep if you relate with smokers and spend time with them a lot then there will be problems.
  • What motivates you into smoking (weight control, social situations, peer pressure)

These are challenges you are likely to face in your journey to quitting smoking and you must be ready to face them positively.

Smoking is so addictive

One will not be penalized to blame nicotine the main drug element in tobacco, for their smoking addiction. When you smoke the brain quickly becomes friendly to the nicotine and develops tolerance for it increasing the urge to smoke more so as to achieve the same rush you often get from smoking a single stick of cigarette. Smoking cigarette is addictive and for your information nicotine acts on the same pathways as cocaine. However tolerance will occur when your brain attempts to keep itself balanced. Chemicals from the cigarette cause the brain to discharge chemicals called norepinephrine and dopamine. Too much discharge of these two chemicals causes the brain chemistry to get unbalanced and discharges its own anti-nicotine chemicals when one smokes. These “anti-nicotine” chemicals would make you feel down, depressed, and tired if you were not smoking and over time the brain will be able to foresee when you need to smoke and discharges the ant-nicotine chemicals which will make you feel tired, depressed and desires to smoke a cigarette.

Addiction to cigarette smoking is influenced by different trigger. A trigger is anything your brain associates with smoking easily. Smokers do not have the same triggers it could be:

  • The smell of cigarette smoke
  • A cigarette smoke ashtray put next to you
  • Seeing a carton of cigarettes at the store
  • Having certain food or drinks
  • The ending a good meal
  • Talking to someone with whom you normally smoke cigarettes.
  • Sometimes just the way you feel (sad or happy) is a trigger.

One of the biggest keys to quitting smoking understands the triggers that make you crave for smoking.

Desire to Quit Smoking – There is many ways of quitting smoking and they work differently to people some work better than others. The best approach is to choose a method which will challenge you to quit, but also one that you can achieve.

Behavioral therapy – With behavioral therapy, you visit a therapist who will help you find the most effective way to quit. The therapist will help you to identify your triggers, come up with ways to get through cravings, and provide emotional support when you need it most.

Nicotine replacement therapy – Nicotine gum, patches, inhalers, sprays, and lozenges are nicotine replacement therapies also known as NRT. Replacement therapy works by giving you nicotine without using tobacco. You may be more likely to quit smoking if you use nicotine replacement therapy however for persons age 18, your doctor’s consent to use nicotine replacement therapy will be necessary. This therapy works best when combined with behavioral therapy and lots of support from friends and family.

Medicine – Some drugs, including Zyban and Chantix, are formulated to help people quit smoking. You must never administer these on your own a prescription must come from your doctor.

Combination treatments – Using a combination of treatment methods can increase your chances of quitting e.g. by using both a nicotine patch and gum may be better than a patch alone. Other confirmed combination treatments include:

  • Behavioral therapy and nicotine replacement therapy
  • Prescription medication with a nicotine patch
  • Nicotine patch and nicotine spray.

What If I Start Smoking Again?

To go back to your old habit is known to us relapse which is normal in strong addictions like smoking. If this happens to you, you must not give up because you are not alone in relapsing. Many people will relapse many times before quitting permanently. I want to encourage you not to give up on this journey quitting is a process that might take some time and you will need the advice and guidance from addiction experts.  Dr. Dalal Akoury is one of the many you can seek help from. She has been offering addiction treatment in a very unique way to many people globally for over two decades now. In her quest to serve you better she founded AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center a facility offering exclusive NER Recovery Treatment to all people from all works of life including other physicians and health care professionals through training, clinical apprenticeships, webinars and seminars. Your condition will be best attended to at this facility where only qualified professional serve. Welcome and be part of this truly successful and fast addiction recovery treatment.

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Effects of Crack Cocaine

July 14, 2014

Effects of Crack Cocaine-Drug Addiction

Cocaine

Crack cocaine addiction, it does not matter how you take it the bottom line is that it is death in waiting. Good news is that you can stop it.

It is everybody’s wish to be healthy and remain so in their whole life time. This desire is always under attack from all directions by all manner of things. Drug addiction is one of the most dreaded conditions that reverse the live healthy wish. In an attempt to trying to unlocking the this we have chosen to use this link to post informatory addiction articles to educate the public of the dangers involve in life if one associate with drugs. There are so many drugs being abused today however for the purpose of our discussion we will zero into cocaine and revel how it affect the addicted individuals and the general public. Our discussion will be in broken in two segments that is:

i.        Short term effects

ii.        Long term effects

Short term effects of crack cocaine

  • Crack cocaine will temporarily lift your spirit as an addict but this feeling when the concentration dies off in your blood stream the addict experiences extreme depression and craves for more of the substance.
  • Individuals addicted to crack cocaine normally skip meals and often don’t have enough sleep.
  • They also experience high heart rate, muscle spasms, convulsion etc.
  • This dug can make users feel obsessed, irritated, unfriendly and nervous even when they are not high.
  • The risks of experiencing heart attack, suffer stroke, seizure or respiratory failure are systematic with crack cocaine users irrespective of quantity used. These can be very fatal killing the individual.
  • Smoking crack further presents a series of health risks. Crack is often mixed with other substances that create toxic fumes when burned. As crack smoke does not remain potent for long, crack pipes are generally very short. This often causes cracked and blistered lips, known as “crack lip,” from users having a very hot pipe pressed against their lips.

Long term effects of crack cocaine

Besides the common dangers related to cocaine use, addicts are likely to suffer respiratory complications, alongside coughing, shortness of breath bleeding and lung damage.

Long-term effects from use of crack cocaine include:

  • It causes severe damage to the heart, liver and kidneys. Users are more likely to have infectious diseases.
  • Continued daily use causes sleep deprivation and loss of appetite, resulting in malnutrition.
  • Smoking crack cocaine also can cause aggressive and paranoid behavior.
  • Since crack cocaine also interferes with the way the brain processes chemicals, one needs large quantities of the drug just to feel “normal.”
  • Those who become addicted to crack cocaine lose interest in other areas of life.
  • Crack cocaine causes depression and when this becomes intensified, the addict can do anything to get the supply. They can be very extreme even to the point of committing murder. If for whatever reason the supply is not fourth coming, depression can drive the addict to the wall of suicide.

Physical and Mental effects- Short term

Because it is smoked, the short term effects of crack cocaine are more immediate and more intense than that of powdered cocaine as discussed below:

  • Loss of appetite
  • Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature
  • Contracted blood vessels
  • Increased rate of breathing
  • Dilated pupils
  • Disturbed sleep patterns
  • Nausea
  • Hyperstimulation
  • Bizarre, erratic, sometimes violent behavior
  • Hallucinations, hyperexcitability, irritability
  • Tactile hallucination that creates the illusion of bugs burrowing under the skin
  • Intense euphoria
  • Anxiety and paranoia
  • Depression
  • Intense drug craving
  • Panic and psychosis
  • Convulsions, seizures and sudden death from high doses (even one time)
Physical and mental effects-Long term effects
  • Permanent damage to blood vessels of ear and brain, high blood pressure, leading to heart attacks, strokes and death
  • Liver, kidney and lung damage
  • Severe chest pains
  • Respiratory failure
  • Infectious diseases and abscesses if injected
  • Malnutrition, weight loss
  • Severe tooth decay
  • Auditory and tactile hallucinations
  • Sexual problems, reproductive damage and infertility (for both men and women)
  • Disorientation, apathy, confused exhaustion
  • Irritability and mood disturbances
  • Increased frequency of risky behavior
  • Delirium or psychosis
  • Severe depression
  • Tolerance and addiction (even after just one use)
Effects on the young Children

It is so painful that very innocent babies in their mother’s wombs become victims of cocaine. When pregnant women uses cocaine in whichever form the mother and the unborn child will all be in danger. This may increase the risk of losing the pregnancy especially in the early stages of the pregnancy. The consequences of cocaine use by pregnant women may result in the unborn baby suffers stroke, heart attack or have permanent brain damage.

Drug dealers/supplies

Research has established that most young people in drugs today got into it because of pressure from their friends. They wanted to belong, feeling cool and famous. These pressures from friends are known by the supplies and they will use this as your weak point to lure you into drugs because they are only motivated by their need of making money. You must be careful with the drug dealers because all they care about is money, money and more money. They care less if the drugs ruin your life as long as they get money.

The truth you need to know

To help you be safe you must get to know the facts at fingertip so that you do not fall prey to these heartless drug dealers.

 

  • You must distance yourself from drugs by all means.
  • Drugs are basically poisons. The quantity taken determines the damage caused.
  • A small amount acts as a stimulant (speeds you up).
  • A greater amount acts as a sedative (slows you down).
  • An even larger amount poisons and can kill.

This is true of all drugs. Only the quantity needed to achieve the effect differs nonetheless many drugs have other liabilities like: they affect the mind directly distorting the user’s perception of what is happening around them and as a result, the person’s actions may be odd, irrational, inappropriate and even destructive.

Drugs block off all sensations, the desirable ones with the unwanted. So, while providing short-term help in the relief of pain, they also wipe out ability and alertness and muddy one’s thinking.

Finally all the medicines we use are drugs whose objective is to correct something about the way your body is working with a view of trying to making it work better. These drugs are sometimes necessary but all the same they are still drugs: they act as stimulants or sedatives, and too much can kill you. So if you do not use medicines as they are supposed to be used, they can be as dangerous as illegal drugs. Therefore you must ensure that you are always seeking guidance from the experts to avoid doing wrong things. At AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under Doctor Akoury’s care you will get all the information and guidance you need and you will also be attended to by a team of experts who will focus on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE.

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