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Laying foundation in dealing with addiction

November 16, 2016

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Laying foundation in dealing with addiction: Childhood addiction

Never say that your child is still very young when it comes to alcohol and drugs. Because children learn mostly by observation, laying foundation in dealing with drug addiction is a continuous process. You must be there for them to give direction. This way you will be laying ground for eliminating alcohol and drug addiction from their lives. You must appreciate that you have more influence over your kids’ attitudes and decisions about alcohol and drugs before they start using, than you will ever have afterwards. From the experts’ position at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, doctor Akoury advices that you should start early! Remember that children go through many different stages as they grow up and what’s appropriate to tell an 18-year-old and a 9-year-old about alcohol and drugs can vary quite a bit. Yet, it’s never too early to begin the conversation. Professionally it has been established that the more informed children are, the more these issues can be discussed soberly and effectively. Here are some basic guidelines for parents to assist you:

Listen before you talk to encourage and build on the conversation – it is true that as parents we often want to have “all the answers.” And, sometimes we are so anxious to share our wisdom or our opinion that we don’t take the time to listen. For kids, knowing that we are really listening is the most important thing we can do to help.

When talking to your child, ask open ended questions – Talk to your child regularly – about their feelings, their friends, their activities – and listen to what they have to say. As much as you can, and sometimes it’s not easy, try to avoid questions that have a simple “yes” or “no” answer.

Be involved – Be involved in your child’s everyday world. Get to know your child’s friends and continue to educate your child about the importance of maintaining good health psychologically, emotionally and physically.

Set expectations limits and consequences – Make it clear that you do not want your child drinking alcohol or using drugs and that you trust them not to. Talk about possible consequences of drug and alcohol use, both legal and medical, and be clear about what you will do if the rules are broken.

Be honest and open – Care about what your child is going through as they face and make decisions that will affect their lives now and for the future.

Laying foundation in dealing with addiction: Be positive

Many parents have discovered that talking about alcohol and drugs with their children has built bridges rather than walls between them and have proudly watched those children learn to make healthy, mature decisions on their own. Research have clearly documented that addiction to alcohol and other drugs is a chronic, progressive disease that can be linked to family history and genetics. It therefore means that if your family has alcohol or drugs history it will be better you seek help from the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center for further direction on how to bring up your children under these circumstances.

Laying foundation in dealing with addiction: Childhood addiction

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Childhood addiction indicators to substances

November 14, 2016

Childhood addiction indicators to substances are essential in finding lasting solutions

Childhood addiction indicators to substances: What to look for?

In the development of our children, there are things that parents will do and others will be best handled by other professionals. The reasons for delegating are many and may include education, our work schedule that does not allow us to have adequate time to spend with them and many others. Despites all these as parents we still have a duty to ensure that they are well taken care of irrespective of their new places of residence whether temporal or permanent. With the saturation of the drugs and alcohol in our neighborhoods we must up our sleeves to ensure that our children are brought up morally upright. It is for this reason that we want to focus our discussion on the childhood addiction indicators to substances as a precautionary measure. Speaking to the experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury, who reiterates that we must first evaluate the accuracy of the problem at hand by answering the following questions: Do you suspect that your child is abusing alcohol or using drugs? Are you worried? Have you noticed some changes with your child? If your response to these is yes, then as a parent it is very normal to be concerned and that brings us to the next point of concern which is how are parents affected by their children’s misuse of drugs?

As parents, we need to find out how we are affected by our children indulgence in to drugs and alcohol. Doctor Akoury is very categorical that as a parent your ability to be helpful in this situation will highly depend on how much you understand the significance of alcohol and drugs as well as how you much have been affected by their alcohol and drug use. In fact, the most important thing you can do to help your son or daughter is first to commit to getting help and support for yourself and find out if you need some help in answering these questions:

Alcohol: Are you troubled by someone’s drinking?
Drugs: Do you need help?

Depending on how you respond to those questions knowing the warning signs becomes the next focus.

Childhood addiction indicators to substances: Warning signs

The use and abuse of alcohol and drugs are serious issues that should not be ignored, we must not sit back and hope they will just go away. If left untreated, it can develop into serious drug dependence or alcoholism. Therefore is very important to recognize the various signs and symptoms of alcohol and drug abuse early enough for proper action to be taken. Doctor Akoury and her team of experts will always be there for you and if you’re worried that your son or daughter might be abusing alcohol or drugs you can schedule for an appointment with her today for the commencement of their recovery process but in the meantime the following are some of the physical and health warning signs of drug abuse to look for:

Irregular changes in appetite or sleep patterns or sudden weight loss or weight gain.
Shakes, tremors, incoherent or slurred speech, impaired or unstable coordination.
Deterioration in personal hygiene or physical appearance.
Eyes that are bloodshot or pupils that are smaller or larger than normal.
Frequent nose bleeding could be related to snorted drugs like meth or cocaine
Sudden seizures without any history of epilepsy
Impaired coordination, injuries/accidents/bruises that they won’t or can’t tell you about- they don’t know how they got hurt
Unusual smells on breath, body, or clothing.

Childhood addiction indicators to substances: What to look for?

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Child addiction and parental obligations

November 14, 2016

Child addiction and parental obligations: Don’t give up hope

Winning the fight against addiction in children is not new because many parents have had the same experience before. Therefore if you are going through trial moment with your addicted child to drugs, be encouraged that you are not alone and you can always find somebody to talk to about your current situation. I must agree that it is not a very good experience to go through and that is why as professionals from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center we want to share with you some experiences other parents have gone through in dealing with child addiction to alcohol and drug addiction. Doctor Dalal Akoury who is a veteran addiction expert and the founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center is going to share with us experiences of past clients so that we can develop the culture of learning from other parents about children addiction.

Over the past two decades doctor Akoury has been very instrumental in offering solutions to all people across the globe and in her experience, she came a cross one client whose story will be very useful for many parents with addicted children. According to this client about five years ago their son was 27-year-old and was so much addicted to alcohol drinking that finally led to usage of other strong drugs (cocaine to be specific). For more than one year they were in the dark about his new habit until he was out of control and that is when he lost his job this really caught us pants down because of his life and that of our grandson the client said. We could not believe how ignorant and blind we were until it all started to make sense when our son was consistently broke, weird phone calls, not showing up for family events, his actions, and his physical appearance. At this point the reality down on us and we tried to help him by enrolling him in treatment programs one after the other. It was difficult because the response was very discouraging but we kept telling him how much we loved him. In solidarity we began attending recovery meetings.

Child addiction and parental obligations: Learning the consequences of addiction the hard way

To cut the long story short it reached a point when we realized that it was beyond our control and we were prepared for the worst but even as we were in that situation, we still told him how much we loved him even though at this time we also needed to take care of ourselves. And so very painfully we detached with love. Our house was still open for him and he would come for meals and to shower but he could not live with us any more, nor would we give him any financial assistance. As fate would have it he who was never taught by his parents would be taught by the world and so he was arrested and we did not bail him out. He was so angry with us, but we still maintained our love for him. He was sentenced to go to a treatment program. He had only the clothes on his back, not even a pair of shoes, and it was winter. We did not give him anything but told him to call when he was settled in his new home and that we still loved him. At this point he knew he was losing his family and possibly his son. That was about four years ago. Today our son has gone through treatment, is working on a recovery program and has custody of his son. We all take it a day at a time. We want to thank doctor Dalal Akoury and her team of experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center for their professional insight that has brought transformation to our son even if it was through the hard way. You can make yours easier by contacting doctor Akoury today.

Child addiction and parental obligations: Don’t give up hope

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Addiction recovery process is never easy

September 15, 2016

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

Addiction realities and family input

September 12, 2016

All the addiction realities and family input are serious fundamentals that we must observe all the time

Addiction realities and family input: Focus on the family

All the addiction realities and family input are serious fundamentals that we must observe all the time. From experience, Jimmsy says that since she enrolled for treatment with the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury MD, she hasn’t done any heroin. Nonetheless that didn’t happen until she lost her home, tolled two cars, and almost saw her marriage collapse. Now living with relatives, she and her husband are trying to get their lives back in order. He’s back at work. They enrolled in a family counseling program, Focus on Families, where they were learning to be better parents and help their kids cope with their parents’ addiction.

Unfortunately, Jim relapsed about six weeks after starting the Focus on Families program, and the family dropped out. Jimssy had to go back to work in order to support the family, and her working hours prevented her from being able to take care of the children and continue the Focus on Families therapy sessions. Several months later, fortunately, Jim was able to get back to doctor Dalal Akoury veteran addiction expert and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center for a recovery program on his own, and he is now coping to maintain his sobriety.

Addiction realities and family input: Appreciating professional treatment approach

Jimssy says she is glad to be getting back her life. She used to get up and, first thing, get a drug fix. Now, she gets up and makes coffee and visits doctor Akoury office for follow up. “I’m learning to live a whole new way again.” She enjoys getting up with her kids, helping them get ready for school, and doing other routine things like driving her husband to work every day. “We are slowly getting things back to sort of normal,” she says.

Jimssy is not so sure of the effects of their actions and how it will impact on their children and especially for J.J. their first born boy who knows that what they did was wrong, illegal, and something they could have been thrown in jail for. He knows what drugs can do, he’s seen it firsthand.” Despite the horror of his finding Jim overdosed, she hopes the scene remains vivid in J.J.’s mind, as a deterrent to doing drugs. “If my son has to see something like that to keep the needle out of his arm, then I’d rather have that than see him someday dead from heroin having understood the addiction realities and family input.” Together they have enrolled their son J.J. into baseball and soccer so that he will become more interested in sports than mind-altering drugs.

Although it’s been a rough two years since she quit using heroin, Jimssy says she is finally starting to see herself as a “normal person” again: “Finally things are starting to open up again. I’m starting to see that there’s more out there to life than sitting around doing drugs thanks to doctor Dalal Akoury and the family of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center.” What a story? Now you know and the decision is yours, choose wisely.

Addiction realities and family input: Focus on the family

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