Substance Abuse and Addiction

July 2, 2014

Substance Abuse and Addiction- Alcohol the most Abused drug

Substance abuse and addiction are not friendly to anyone but the good news is whatever drug you are addicted to be it alcohol there is hope of recovery

In your neighborhood probably there is a bar or just any place ware legal is sold and you will confess that in those places there are individuals who will never miss visiting those joints not even for one day. These are the people I want to talk about in this article. Moderate alcohol consumption may not be that bad health wise and in fact can be soothing and relaxing. However when consumed disorderly alcohol can be poisonous and injurious to human life in many ways which includes traffic accidents, homicides, suicide and rape, alcohol abuse also has adverse effects on social and domestic life ranging from absconding employment duties, spousal and child abuse and even crime.

Those who take alcohol are likely experience changes in their bodies immediately as mood changes to complete loss of coordination, vision, balance, and speech these changes can be attributed to acute intoxication or just drunkenness. It is important for the public to know that the authorities regard a rate of 0.08% of alcohol in the bloodstream as evidence of intoxication. If the rate becomes more in the blood then this can impair brain function and eventually cause unconsciousness but an extreme overdose is serious alcohol poisoning and can be fatal.

Substance Abuse and Addiction- Understanding Alcohol Abuse

Chronic alcoholism is a potentially fatal disease characterized by continuous craving for amplified tolerance of physical dependence upon and loss of control over alcohol consumption. The physical dependence on alcohol differs with individual consumer with some chronic alcoholics get very drunk and others exercise enough control to give the appearance of coping with everyday affairs in a near-normal way. However, alcoholism can lead to a number of physical ailments, including hypoglycemia, high blood pressure, brain and heart damage, end-stage liver damage, enlarged blood vessels in the skin, pneumonia, tuberculosis, chronic gastritis, and recurrent pancreatitis.

The consequences of alcoholism may include: impotence in men, damage to the fetus in pregnant women, and an elevated risk of cancer of the larynx, esophagus, liver, breast, stomach, pancreas, and upper gastrointestinal tract. And also because alcoholics rarely have proper diets, they are at a high risk of being malnourish. Nevertheless high level consumers will have impaired liver function with one in five developing cirrhosis.

Symptoms of Alcohol Abuse

If you have to take good precaution to be free from being an alcoholic, you must know the signs and symptoms of alcohol abuse and the following are just but a few:

Short-term blackouts or memory loss.
Repeated arguments or fights with family members or friends as well as irritability, depression, or mood swings.
Continuing use of alcohol to relax, to cheer up, to sleep, to deal with problems, or to feel “normal.”
Headache, anxiety, insomnia, nausea, or other unpleasant symptoms when you stop drinking.
Flushed skin and broken capillaries on the face; a husky voice; trembling hands; bloody or black/tarry stools or vomiting blood; chronic diarrhea; and drinking alone, in the mornings, or in secret; these symptoms are specifically associated with alcoholism.

Keep in mind that alcohol abuse is different from alcohol dependence.

With abuse, a person uses alcohol in excess but may not have regular cravings, a need to use daily, or withdrawal symptoms during sudden stoppage. The person may often have heavy alcohol binge episodes separated by periods of not drinking.
If a person is dependent on alcohol, he or she needs to drink regularly or even daily and drink more and more to get the same effects. The person also experiences withdrawal symptoms if he or she stops drinking and wants to quit drinking alcohol but can’t.

Substance Abuse and Addiction- Treatments for Alcoholism

The ultimate objective of treatment for alcoholism is abstinence. Among alcoholics with otherwise good health, social support, and motivation, the chances of regaining is good. About 50% to 60% remain abstinent at the end of a year’s treatment and a majority of those break dry permanently. However those with poor social support, poor motivation, or psychiatric disorders have a tendency to relapse within a few years of treatment. For these people, success is measured by longer periods of abstinence, reduced use of alcohol, better health, and improved social functioning.

Substance Abuse and Addiction- Conventional Medicine for Alcoholism

Treatment for alcoholism can begin only when the alcoholic accepts that the problem exists and agrees to stop drinking. They will have to understand that alcoholism is treatable and must desire to change and to diligently follow the three treatment procedures:

Detoxification (detox): This may be needed immediately after stopping alcohol use and can be a medical emergency, as detox can result in withdrawal seizures, hallucinations, delirium tremens (DT), and in some cases may result in death.
Rehabilitation: This involves counseling and medications to give the recovering alcoholic the skills needed for maintaining sobriety. This step in treatment can be done inpatient or outpatient. Both are equally effective.
Maintenance of sobriety: This step’s success requires an alcoholic to be self-driven. The key to maintenance is support, which often includes regular Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings and getting a sponsor.

Because detoxification does not stop the craving for alcohol, recovery is often difficult to maintain. For a person in an early stage of alcoholism, discontinuing alcohol use may result in some withdrawal symptoms, including anxiety and poor sleep. Withdrawal from long-term dependence may bring the uncontrollable shaking, spasms, panic, and hallucinations of DTs. If not treated professionally, people with DTs have a mortality rate of more than 10%, so detoxification from late-stage alcoholism should be attempted under the care of an experienced doctor and may require a brief inpatient stay at a hospital or treatment center.

Treatment may involve one or more medications. Benzodiazepines are anti-anxiety drugs used to treat withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety and poor sleep and to prevent seizures and delirium. These are the most frequently used medications during the detox phase, at which time they are usually tapered and then discontinued. They must be used with care, since they may be addictive.

There are several medicines used to help people in recovery from alcoholism maintain abstinence and sobriety. One drug, disulfiram may be used once the detox phase is complete and the person is abstinent. It interferes with alcohol metabolism so that drinking a small amount will cause nausea, vomiting, blurred vision, confusion, and breathing difficulty. This medication is most appropriate for alcoholics who are highly motivated to stop drinking or whose medication use is supervised, because the drug does not affect the motivation to drink. Our job is to help you get better and be free from any form of addiction and that is why at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center Doctor Akoury who is the founder is offering a focused Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) treatment with the sole intension to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE when this is done you will not only have a testimony but life a productive and happy life free from addiction.

Substance Abuse and Addiction- Alcohol the most Abused drug

Low Dose Chemo and Cancer Treatment

June 28, 2014

Low dose chemo is an effective alternative cancer treatment approach

Insulin potentiation therapy (IPT) is the utilization of low doses of chemotherapy and insulin in treatment of cancer. The insulin potentiation therapy may also be used in treatment of other chronic diseases. The use of low dose chemotherapy is safer as compared to conventional chemotherapy that leave patients with many life threatening side effects. The conventional chemotherapy does not only kill the cancerous cells but also kill the healthy cells in the patient’s body leading to a period of intense pain, loss of appetite, loss of hair, weakness, fatigue and even weight loss. The ability of coping with the side effects of conventional chemotherapy varies from patient to patient but generally the experience is not for those faint at heart. These inconveniences have led the patients to look for other safer alternatives in cancer treatment and doctors as well as other medical researchers have been looking for alternatives that can help the cancer patients to be treated more effectively with less severe side effects.

The history of Insulin potentiation therapy (IPT) can be traced back to the early 1920s when insulin was first used in the attempt to treat patients with schizophrenia. Dr. Donato Perez Garcia, Sr. developed IPT and used it to put cancer patients to coma in an attempt to treat them of cancer. His sons took the practice a head and today very many doctors now recommend the use of IPT in treatment of cancer, Needless to mention several publications have been made to avail information in support of this approach to cancer treatment.

Insulin and Cancer

Insulin is the hormone charged with the responsibility of transporting glucose through the bloodstream to the cells to provide energy. This glucose is needed by both healthy cells and the cancerous cells to survive.

One of the notable difference between cancer cells and healthy cells is that cancer cells depend entirely on sugar and glutamine which is a form of amino acids found in highly concentrated animal proteins. The cancer cells will therefore use all the sugar (glucose) that is found in the bloodstream leaving the healthy cells with inadequate sources of energy to survive on. The healthy cells having no glucose left to utilize become starved and this explains why most cancer patients are always weak and rapidly lose weight.

The amount of insulin used to transport the glucose into the cancer cells is much higher as compared to the amount of insulin hormone used to transport glucose into the healthy cells. Averagely the cancer cells need 16 times more insulin hormones to feed its cells with the glucose.

The cancer cells are very fast in grabbing the glucose available in the blood and that is the basis through which PET scan works. During PET scan a radioactive agent is introduced into the bloodstream within a glucose molecule and since the cancerous cells are the first to race for sugar, they become visible through the scan.

IPT works in the same way as the PET scan, the low doses of chemotherapy drugs are administered in the bloodstream within the glucose molecules and so the cancer cells come scrambling as they are faster in response to glucose than the healthy cells. They utilize the ‘poisoned’ glucose and get killed sparing the healthy cells. In IPT healthy cells are not killed as it happens in the conventional chemotherapy where both the cancerous and the healthy cells are killed. This explains why patients on low dose chemotherapy do not suffer severe side effects as common with patients undergoing conventional chemotherapy.

Potentiation in the IPT is an English word derived from a verb ‘potentiate’ which means to give more power or other to make more potent. In this therapy insulin is used to make conventional chemotherapy more powerful and effective in killing the cancerous cells.

A study that was done at the George Washington University in 1981 revealed that when insulin is mixed with a chemotherapy drug, methotrexate, its strength in killing the cancerous cells improved greatly. With that high potency, patients no longer needed to be given so many drugs to kill the cancerous cells. This combination not only made cancer treatment more effective but also gave convenience to patients as they did not have to use too many drugs to keep healthy.

In numerous ways insulin can help in treatment of cancer patients. Being a hormone that encourages growth, it will trigger cell multiplication by dividing. This allows healthy cells to be more while it puts the cancer cells in a more vulnerable state to be killed by the poisoned glucose molecule in that as the cell divides, it becomes more exposed to the chemotherapy drug in the glucose molecules speeding their death frequency.

IPT is surely a clever way to kill the cancer cells. You see, Insulin is also known to promote detoxification process as it makes the cells more permeable. This makes it easy for the toxins to be removed from the cells. Detoxification is a crucial procedure in cancer treatment and can be highly achieved through IPT as opposed to the conventional chemotherapy.

The use of low dose chemotherapy has gained popularity over a time and doctors have endorsed this alternative cancer treatment. Going by the simple physiology discussed herein you can see how effective the IPT approach to cancer treatment is. Other advantages that the patient enjoys are that the whole procedure does not leave the patients with life threatening side effects as common in conventional chemotherapy. The drugs given to patients are also manageable as they are more potent. Healthy cells are safe and the patients do not become bald.

Cancer treatment is subject to new inventions and that gives you a reason to find a reliable source of information that will update on the latest medical inventions geared towards making cancer treatment more effective. Contact Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) who is more experienced in cancer treatment so that you can learn more on cancer treatment and management.

Low dose chemo is an effective alternative cancer treatment approach

Narcotics and Cancer Treatment

June 28, 2014

Narcotics Can Be Safely Used To Ease Pain in Cancer Patients

The use of narcotic drugs is a scare to all and any mention of this draws mixed reactions, probably due to the well-known life threatening side effects that users of such drugs are exposing themselves to. However, in certain scenarios you may have to depend on these drugs to at least reduce your pain. In this case the narcotics are used with medical intentions having to be administered by a doctor who knows the right dosage as over-dosing may produce horrible side effects. To cancer patients, the narcotics are a necessity they can never run away from as they are very effective in reducing the intensity of pain they suffer, while ailing or undergoing certain treatments (chemotherapy for example)

The pain relieving drugs that are non-narcotics in nature are available, and include; Tylenol, Celebrex and Advil. These drugs are very useful in cancer treatment. However, they can only be effectively used for mild pains but cannot help much in reducing the great pains that most cancer patients have to go through. For this case, narcotic drugs become the only option for these patients. A lot of patients though, are scared of addiction to these drugs and thus repel the idea of the usage on them. But, legal narcotic pain medication can be used safely to reduce the pain in cancer patients without the risk of addiction.

The narcotics used in pain medication are all related to morphine but may come in different forms. The effects of these narcotic pain medication drugs vary in different patients and the different forms also have different side effects. Some of these drugs include; hydromorphone, roxicodone, codeine and fentanyl. These forms are also different in strength and while will take mere seconds to ease the pain, some may take up to an hour to reduce the pain. The drugs may come in forms of tablet, liquid or even as a suspension.

There is a known risk associated with misuse of these drugs and so it is important that the complex combination of these drugs be done by an authorized medical personnel who will be able to reduce the negative side effects of these drugs on the patients’ health while maximize on their benefits. In case of any unexpected side effects the patient is advised to seek the intervention of the doctor as the patient may react differently to the drug as other patients who had undergone the same treatment.

The doctor should monitor the progress of a patient on treatment and see if the patient is doing better with the medication. If the patient is still experiencing the intense pain, then the doctor will give a different combination of these drugs that will be able to reduce the pain and give the patient comfort. This calls for cooperation between the cancer patient and the doctor so that the patient can benefit from the medication.

The patient may at times have to use two different drugs, especially when the pain is continuous and sometimes becomes unbearable. The patient may use a narcotic drug that takes less time to ease the pain while still using the long term pain medication that is subscribed to her by her doctor. In most cases the patient will be in control of the other drug that he will use at certain times when the pain is intense to give her slight breakthrough from the pain. The narcotics that are entirely controlled by patients should not have adverse effects on the patient even if they take them beyond the recommended doses.

Constipation

One of the discomforts that cancer patients on narcotic pain medication suffer most is constipation. It is therefore advisable that as you take narcotic pain medicines you should also take medicine that will help you evade constipation. If the constipation problem persist even after taking necessary measures, you should talk to your doctor about so that he may change your pain medicine for another that will least affect your bowel movements. It is also important that you avoid other relaxants when you are using narcotic pain medication. You should not take alcohol without discussing with your doctor as that may work against your medication.

There have been controversies about the use of narcotic drugs to control pain in cancer patients with many critics saying that the patient’s risks suffering an addiction. The truth however is when narcotic drugs are used as pain medication the doctors give required dosage that will not addict the patients. A patient is different from strict addict that may use the narcotic drugs to suppress depression or simply to get high. When used for medication the patient is not in control of the drug unlike in the case of a street addict who is in control of the amounts he takes. He can overindulge but a patient cannot since he uses the doctor’s subscription.

Affordability

The issue of affordability features when you want to choose the pain medication to use. Most of these narcotic pain medicines are quite expensive and are mostly paid for by insurance cover plans. If you do not have an insurance policy and you find your drug too expensive, it is advisable to tell your doctor so that he may find you a more affordable alternative that is also effective.

It is good to seek information about narcotic pain medication to cancer patients from experienced doctors so that you will know the best course of action to take in case you or your loved ones are victimized by this disease. For this purpose, Dr. Dalal Akoury (MD) has availed detailed information about cancer treatments on her website. If you are not suffering from this disease but you are affected in one way or the other. Get in touch with Dr. Dalal Akoury so that you may learn much on cancer management and be of help to this generation.

Narcotics Can Be Safely Used To Ease Pain in Cancer Patients

Restoring trust damaged by addiction

June 20, 2014

Restoring trust damaged by addiction-Drug Addiction

The best thing you can do for yourself is to seek help and free yourself from addiction to drugs. Restoration is possible

Relationship is often the major casualty in the life of the addicted person and his or her family, friends and other associates. It normally goes un noticed that the family and those who care about the victim of addiction are is great psychological problems and sometimes even the problem graduates to being physical. The society is also not left out in essence when an individual is seriously suffering from drug addiction everybody is suffering. This collectiveness in suffering is what is going to form the basis of this article we want to discuss this problem with a view of restoring the trust and relationship damaged by addiction. I believe you would also want to seek this answers and I want therefore invite you to stay on the link and keep reading for real and informative piece of information.

Restoring trust damaged by addiction-Honesty and Open Communication

Trust is the foundation in which any meaningful relationship stands. Any relationship built on trust will always stand the test of time and weather all storms that may come on the way but those without trust normally fails even before they pick up. Trust can be infringed and completely ruined by an addiction. Take for example an addict in the family may excuse him/herself shortly to perform a 5minutes task and only surface back 5 hours later because they went to indulge in drugs this is an act of dishonesty that brings lots of mistrust. Secretiveness and hiding are common to those suffering from addiction and often lead them to doing things uncharacteristic of their true nature which is why rebuilding relationships requires trust.

During the process of addiction recovery addicts normally achieve higher level of awareness and clearer thinking. The desire is to regain the lost times and opportunities due to addiction and also to restore the relationships which were injured by addiction. The key to proper restoration of relationships is restoring trust between the recovering addicts and their loved ones. It is important that both parties here appreciate that trust is earned and once broken will take time to rebuild. Doing this can take several dimensions to achieve therefore both the addicts and their loved ones can chose to start the journey or regaining trust by taking the following steps which will be full of love and les turmoil.

Once a person enters recovery, they achieve a higher level of awareness and clearer thinking. They want to regain the things in life that were lost due to the addiction and often most important is the restoration of relationships that were harmed by the addiction. Central to rebuilding relationships is restoring trust and both the recovering addict, as well as their loved ones, must begin to recognize that regaining trust takes time. There are several steps the addict and their loved ones can take to begin to restore trust with more love and less turmoil.

Open communication
Honesty

Restoring trust damaged by addiction-Recovering Person

At the early stages of recovery the addict may experience acute and post-acute withdrawal symptoms that affect their moods, emotions and psychological balance as well as how they relate with the society. This is a time of transition meaning letting go of unhealthy relationships and environments and creating new sober associations and healthy sober leisure activities. The transition period help the addict heal and reinvent themselves and should be encouraged and shared. However sharing can sometimes be difficult owing to the fact that some of the addicts may have been secretive, dishonest and hiding things for many years

Restoring trust damaged by addiction-For Loved Ones

Loved ones who have been under consistent assault and emotional decay will often remember past experiences and behaviors of the addiction and so changes made by the recovering person and by the loved one can be challenging because of mistrust. But all the same the lives of loved ones will definitely change once recovery begins. For sometimes they may feel upset, overwhelmed or left behind by the changes, even though the changes are desirable they may also not be used to sharing frequently because the effects of addiction kept the addict and the loved one separated.

Restoring trust damaged by addiction-Open, Frequent Communication

It is important for the recovering addict and their loved ones to talk freely of what each person is experiencing as changes begins to take shape. Increased communication and sharing the progress and challenges each person is facing during this recovery process helps everyone better understand each other and be more supportive. Here are some examples:

If the recovering addict feels ill due to withdrawal. They may begin to isolate, become distant or withdrawn. Those closest to them may suspect a return to using. If the recovering person instead shares their physical challenges, loved ones will have less cause for alarm.
A loved one may struggle with how to reorganize their life and responsibilities now that the recovering person is taking care of themselves. Sharing these feelings and concerns allow for the loved one and the recovering person to manage these changes together, which builds mutual trust.

In addition to increasing overall communication, it is vitally important that both the recovering addict and their loved ones discuss the fears and concerns driving any feelings of mistrust. Discussing fears and concerns take them from unknown and overwhelming to being manageable. Some fears may be unfounded, some may be based on years of past interactions, and some may be realistic only by expressing and dealing with the fears and concerns openly can they be handled well or dismissed as unnecessary worry.

Restoring trust damaged by addiction-Honesty

Lack of honesty is a primary reason for distrust. People are dishonest for many reasons but generally it is to avoid being confronted, to avoid disappointing others, to hide their true behavior, or to avoid hurting others. Unfortunately, dishonesty eventually leads to the very thing sought to be avoided. If loved ones make it safe and beneficial for the recovering person to tell the truth (and vice versa), there will be more honesty. If honesty is met with appreciation, truthfulness will continue while at the same time if the truth is met with arguments, penalties, and no chance for a healing discussion, honesty will not continue. Communicating with honesty takes courage, so everyone should show appreciation and gentleness in order for the honesty to continue and grow.

Seek Help at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under Doctor Akoury’s care where focus is on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE. This will be helpful to you if you or your loved one is already suffering from addiction and you need an immediate recovery from whatever addiction you may be suffering from.

Restoring trust damaged by addiction-Drug Addiction

Ritalin Addiction and Abuse

June 14, 2014

Ritalin Addiction and Abuse-Withdrawal and Treatment

Ritalin addiction affects the brain and can be very devastating.

Ritalin is a Central Nervous System (CNS) stimulant psychoactive drug which is generically known as methylphenidate. Stimulant psychoactive drugs hasten or speed up the brain and central nervous system activity; producing general effects of increased alertness, heightened senses, surges in energy etc. Ritalin is used to treat attention deficit disorders, attention deficit hyperactive disorder and narcolepsy (a strong desire to stay asleep which is not normal).

Other psychoactive drugs

Psychoactive drugs are those chemicals which the capability to influence and interfere with the normal functionalities of the central nerve system (CNS) and the brain. This interference comes in two different ways:

Drugs which hasten or speed up the functioning of CNS and brain are called stimulants and some of them may include drugs like Ritalin, crack cocaine, amphetamine, and crystal meth etc.
Drugs that slow the CNS and brain are called stimulants and in this group are opioids and opiates (Hydrocodone, buprenorphine, Opana, Demerol and Tramadol etc.) and alcohol.

The mechanism that these drugs use in functioning with the body is attaching to the receptacles or inducing production of endorphins which attach to brain and CNS receptacles to alter or inhibit successful signal transmission from other body organs to the brain and vice versa. This slows the body, generally reducing heart rate and in essence blood pressure, respiration and breathing etc.

The other category of psychoactive drugs are the hallucinogens/psychedelics this category tends to rearrange ones thinking, in other words they distort thinking completely, falsifying the person’s sense of pleasure, peace, or even threat etc., when realistically this is not the real situation happening. The drugs which fall in this category may include marijuana, PCP and MDMA these substances normally exhibit some traits and similarities of this category such as hallucinations, mood swings among many others.

Ritalin use

Ritalin is used in the body to offer functions like:

Attention deficit disorder patients lack the swiftness of mind and body to act and respond to stimuli in time.
They can be said to be slow and the presence of Ritalin boosts their energy, increases their sensory perception, self-awareness and alertness, which make them normal-like.
Narcolepsy on the other hand, being an unending sleepiness, is treated with Ritalin since in its working mechanism the drug reduces this sleep tendency and may even cause insomnia which is lack of sleep or sleep disturbances.
Like any other drug Ritalin is also prone to abuse, it is sometimes taken against prescription for leisure.
Those who seek leisure from Ritalin abuse it by taking more of it and in shorter frequencies to maximize its effects in the body and mind.
They might also use the drug together with other drugs that stimulate the brain, or drugs that make the effects of Ritalin take longer to wear off.
Abuse comprises not only the stated points above but also taking the drug when the body is already overactive, which makes the presence of the drug make automatic processes such as breathing, respiration, heart rate and blood pressure blow out of proportion.

Abuse

Like any other drug Ritalin is also prone to abuse, it is sometimes taken against prescription for leisure.
Those who seek leisure from Ritalin abuse it by taking more of it and in shorter frequencies to maximize its effects in the body and mind.
They might also use the drug together with other drugs that stimulate the brain, or drugs that make the effects of Ritalin take longer to wear off.
Abuse comprises not only the stated points above but also taking the drug when the body is already overactive, which makes the presence of the drug make automatic processes such as breathing, respiration, heart rate and blood pressure blow out of proportion.

Effects of Ritalin on the body and mind

As a stimulant Ritalin has various effects on the body and the mind of its users. These effects may be positive or negative depending on the use and they include:

Increased alertness and ability to focus
Energy surges
Numbing of pain
A boost in self-awareness and self esteem
Hastened automatic processes in the body, such as heart rate, breathing and respiration rates etc.
Sweating induced by a rise in body temperature
Grandiosity and invincibility
Heightened senses
Loss of appetite
Headaches
Insomnia

Side effects

Depression
An unending craving for the drug
Hypertension: due to increased heart rate
Cardiac arrest
Hyperthermia may destroy some body cells, reducing their effectiveness in normal functioning, which might induce organ failure
Increased threat perception due to heightened senses
Rapid breathing
Extreme pupil narrowing which alters vision
Intense headaches
Anorexia – lack of appetite and poor eating habits
Poor health due to poor eating habits
Dryness of the skin, which might be marked by rashes and itching
Sleep disturbances
Extreme hallucinations and schizophrenia
Mouth or nose bleeding due to cavity destruction by the drug’s powder and smoke Involuntary twitching of muscles

Addiction

Use of Ritalin to treat narcolepsy or ADD/ ADHD or the abuse of the drug for leisure does not exempt it from developing addiction. Prolonged use of the drug (meaning long durations of use and somewhat increased dosages taken) reduces the body and brain’s response to the drug, forcing more intakes of the drug and in higher dosage to achieve the same effects that were achieved with lesser amounts. This is called increased tolerance for the drug. Abuse comprises taking the drug without any caution whatsoever, and this means that higher quantities and shorter durations, as well as faster means of administration are employed to intensify the effects of Ritalin.

This develops tolerance very fast. Tolerance is succeeded by physical dependence, which means the body is now used to the drug for its regular functioning. Addiction is an amplified version of physical dependence and is a perpetual physical and psychological compulsion for the presence of the drug in the body and mind and it goes beyond the will or conscious desires of the individual. Any absence of the drug, whether temporary or permanent, elicits withdrawal symptoms (most of which are fatal if not properly managed).

Withdrawal

This is the process of quitting or reducing the intake of the drug. This is sometimes intentionally carried out for the many negative effects it has on the individual and on society.

Ritalin withdrawal symptoms

These may include:

Slowed heart rate and reduced blood pressure
Intense headaches
Extreme hallucinations
Paranoia
Vomiting
Abdominal pains
Malfunctioning organs (liver, kidney etc.) and the list continues.

Ritalin overdose

A Ritalin overdose occurs when Ritalin levels in the blood reach lethal levels. It may be characterized by a ruptured heart or blood vessels, due to the very high heart beat destruction of the kidneys, liver, lungs and other organs, bluish skin due to lack of circulation, slowed heart beat and weak pulse, an indication of a failing heart, falling into a coma, realistic hallucinations etc. all these points only communicate one point that addiction is a scourge in the society which must be rooted out soonest.

Talking of rooting addiction out it is important that we seek the services of not just professionals but experienced ones. For instance Dr. Dalal Akoury is not just a professional in her own right but an experienced one for that matter. She is the founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, a facility that has been very helpful to many addiction victims globally. Remember we want to kick out this scourge out of our society therefore a visit to this facility and meeting doctor Akoury and her team of experts will be the best you can do not just for yourself but to the society as well. Dr. Akoury is offering her exclusive NER Recovery Treatment to everybody including physicians and health care professionals through training, clinical apprenticeships, webinars and seminars. Welcome and be part of the endless list of beneficiaries in this truly successful and fast addiction recovery treatment.

Ritalin Addiction and Abuse-Withdrawal and Treatment

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