Did you contribute to your sons Addiction

May 15, 2015

Did you contribute to your sons Addiction: Is there anything you could have done differently?

Did you contribute to your sons Addiction? trace your actions and mend the ribbon where necessary

The challenges we have in life today causes us to do certain things that under normal circumstances we would have not done. The economic hardship is on such factor that takes all our attention. We are deeply rooted in the business of chasing for contracts, connections and business meetings all in an effort to adding value to our lives and families. I have realized that while doing all these things time is spent and every moment certain activities get the upper hand or the lion’s share of time allocation. This is where in my view the problem begins from. You will agree with me that currently our work takes most of our time in relation to the time we spend with our families. Did that catch your attention? How much time do you take with your family? Are your children able to wish you good night physically or are you wishing them good night on phone? How often do you visit your children in school and follow their academic performance with their teachers or you have found refuge in their teachers to take part some of your responsibilities as you look for money? Is your neighborhood safe for your children like they cannot get bad influence and become liabilities to the society? In this point of time when substance abuse is almost the order of the day do you know your child well? And if your child is already an addict, did you contribute to your son’s addiction? These are very are very pertinent questions which needs to be addressed with great honesty. To help you bring these concerns to perspective, let us listen to one of the client doctor Akoury attended to recently.

Did you contribute to your sons Addiction: What I Wish I Had Done Differently with My Addicted Son?

In my line of duty I attend to very many people from all walks of life but recently I received an e-mail from a concerned parent. In her main she described her son’s addiction very passionately explains doctor Akoury. She spoke about several experiences that I believe are similar to many people today. The mail continues that she was getting worried because she had done all that she though was humanly possible but all yielded very minimal result and now she is worried of losing her son to drug addiction. The question she thrown after all this is what I want to through back to you, so that you can see what you can learn from it. She asked “what do you wish you had done differently?”

I believe that responding to this question will make a big difference for many people whose children are struggling with addiction and even those who are planning to have children in the future. What are you thinking about right now? This can be very helpful when responded to with lots of wisdom. Ask yourself the same question, what do you want to do differently? We have all made some mistakes in the past which when added up, probably may have made a difference, or maybe some little changes here and there may have prevented this (addiction) from happening. You may or may not get the satisfaction from all those deliberations but I want to share with you some of the things you need to discover to be a good parent. The following lessons can be extracted from this question:

Did you contribute to your sons Addiction: I would have learned to listen?

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

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

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

Finally, from this question, you can also pick this lesion as a parent. It is necessary that you learn to listen to your heart and your mind. Take time to reconcile what the two are saying. Like for instance your heart will tell you that where there is life, there is always hope. It allows you to love someone even if their actions may seem to be communicating otherwise. On the other hand your mind/ brain will speak the realities of life and tell you facts about drug addiction. Therefore it is important to appreciate those matters of the heart and the mind is not about winning or losing the argument. Your heart and your mind must be reconciled to work together in unity. It is possible for your heart to accept that your son may die and in the same way it is also possible for your mind to understand that there may not be an answer for addiction and loving for just today is all you get. With those insights I appreciate that sometimes listening can be very difficult, but if this will help you get help to your children, then if am asked again what I wish I had done differently. Then I will give a straight answer that I wish I had learned how to listen to my children sooner. And now that you are a listening parent schedule for an appointment with doctor Akoury today to listen and apply some of her professional treatment options available for your addicted children.

Did you contribute to your sons Addiction: Is there anything you could have done differently?

The family union in fighting Heroin Addiction

May 15, 2015

The family union in fighting Heroin Addiction: The battles of Heroin Addiction in Families?

The family union in fighting Heroin Addiction must start before conception and to continue for life.

It is always said that a family that eat together stays together. Togetherness is one thing that is becoming very elusive in this generation of work and commitment. Parents are never there for their children and even for themselves. We are all looking for means of putting food on the table yet when that food is on the table we are not there to share it. Children eat alone as do the parents. In the previous two articles doctor Dalal Akoury has been taking us through the life and times of what heroin addicts go through either as individuals or as a group. We followed the story of Jimssy family and their struggle with addiction and what they were not able to do well that landed them into more problems. This family has seen it all and we want to sum up this discussion by looking at the family union in fighting heroin addiction and still following up on the conclusion story of the family of Jimssy.

The family union in fighting Heroin Addiction: Quitting or Stopping addiction

From the story of Jimssy, when their son watched her mother crying in pain and her father trying to calm her down by a shot of heroin, they all realize that something had to be done. What did they do? Keep reading and find out what the family union in fighting heroin addiction can do for you and your family. After this episode, Jimssy made effort to quit drugs on her own and each time she did, she failed to have a break through. It was after several attempts that Jim her husband gave a helping hand and she went cold turkey for two days but even this did not help and the condition became unbearable for her. She began shaking and sweating loosing muscle control in the process.

Initially when she was opting for change, she had made Jim promised her never to give her any drug no matter the case, but when she could not control herself and the need for drug took center stage she violently screamed for drugs and looking at her suffering, Jim gave in to avoid having a major seizure. While all this was happening, their son J.J was watching, seeing his mom have to lay there and be that sick and scream and cry, or watching her shoot dope. It then done on them that cold turkey was not working for her. She then remembered that years back when she first found out that Jim was a heroin addict, she had convinced him to seek for professional assistance from doctor Dalal Akoury which he did and for the 10 years with the help of doctor Akoury she had a very happy and productive marriage. Though Jim relapsed at some point, she realized that Dalal Akoury, Founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness under the able leadership of doctor Akoury and her team of experts were her only way out.

She checked into the recovery program at this facility which also included methadone maintenance with counseling. And even though she wasn’t sure if it was going to work but her resolve to try kept her going and Jim was with her when she threw her needles away. She says that they broke them and tossed them away for the very first time.

The family union in fighting Heroin Addiction: Focus on Family

Since she started down the road to recovery, she hasn’t done any heroin. But that didn’t happen until she lost her home, totaled 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 Dalal Akoury, Founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness for a recovery program on his own, and he is now coping to maintain his sobriety.

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 the 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. who knows that what his 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, than I’d rather have that than see him someday dead from heroin.” 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.

The family union in fighting Heroin Addiction: The battles of Heroin Addiction in Families?

The battles of Heroin Addiction in Families

May 15, 2015

The battles of Heroin Addiction in Families: The wrong choices we often make

The battles of Heroin Addiction in Families must all be inclusive. Heroin addiction is a great to every family

There are certain things that we do not because we want to but because we see our friends and relatives do. The motivation is to have the feelings they have upon using the things they use or doing what they do. In other words the sense of belonging is the reason why all these are happening. Take for instance in the world of drug addiction you will be amazed at what people do just not to be left out and in the process they find themselves into real problems not just in their health and peace of mind but also with the law enforcement agencies. Even though addiction cuts across and everyone is vulnerable, it hit the hardest at the family unit. We spoke to doctor Dalal Akoury the MD and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center about the battle of heroin addiction in families and it is amazing seeing how simple desires can land us into real threats of addiction.

As a professional in this discipline doctor Akoury is going to shed some light on how influential heroin can be in your life no matter how you got introduced to it. She says that one morning while in her office a lady walked in and was very depressed. When she gave her time to share her problem she open up and poured out her heart on the battles she has with heroin addiction. For confidentiality we will call her Jimssy not her real name. Jimssy is a full-time housewife and mother and hardly fits the stereotypical picture of a heroin addict. However for the past two of her adult life, she was obsessed with getting high on heroin a passion she shared with her husband, Jim not his real name who has been battled his own addiction for over two decades now.

Jim had been struggling with heroin addiction for years when his wife joined the league of shooting up heroin. Even though Jimssy was not ignorant of the effects of heroin on her husband, she voluntarily decided to test the water one day following an advice from her friend who informed her that using heroin would significantly relieve the pain of headache and muscular pains she had suffered from epileptic seizures she has been struggling with for more than 15 years now. It is amazing how friends can be very destructive to our well-being. This friend without any consideration of the know consequences, approached her friend with the news she knew Jimssy would be interested in, that is the solution to her struggle with pain. Jimssy acknowledges that, that was her first time and regret having such a friend in her life. She goes ahead to explain that her main reason for testing the waters even though she knew the struggles her husband, was to get better, the pain was becoming unbearable. What do you think about her decision? You may suggest that under the circumstances she was justified because she was looking for solutions about her pain. Nonetheless it is still not right, every advice you get from a friend must be confirmed by a medical doctor and that is why doctor Akoury founded this facility where you can get all the professional assistance concerning your health and addiction at any time of the day.

The battles of Heroin Addiction in Families: Breaking the Boredom

Another point doctor Akoury observed from the patient is the mind set of many people about things and situations around them. Like for instance Jimssy says that besides the advice from the wrong friend, she was curious, she wanted to understand the feelings of this drug heroin, and she confesses that “I wanted to know what this was that [Jim] was doing. Why it was so attractive. And she sought the silence that if she was to try it just briefly for a few times, it won’t do her any harm and that it wouldn’t result into addiction since it is only for a few times.” That is what she thought and besides she had also heard that heroin improved sexual performance. (The seizure medications she had taken for her epilepsy had dampened her libido.) Heroin, she says, helped her feel more sexual, and that was a big attraction.

Doctor Akoury says that she had it all well planned. And in her own wisdom, to avoid getting hooked, she refrained from doing the drug for four days between uses. Then, she started doing it on the weekends “to break the boredom.” This plan may have looked brilliant, but remember that heroin is such an addictive drug and so despite her plans and to her great denial she quickly became addicted. She adds that “I saw what it had done to my husband. But I had no idea at all of the pull it had on users.” If you are listing keenly to Jimssy and you or anyone you know is struggling with any form of addiction, you can be of help first to yourself and then to the others by scheduling for an appointment with doctor Akoury today.

In the meantime Jimssy tells us that as at that time she was being introduced into drugs, she was working and earning her money from her job which was well enough to finance this new expenditure. The income helped her feed their habits and every day was such a good day because they could afford for more drugs. But it also caused strife in their relationship. They would share their drugs, and Jimssy says, the pull of addiction quickly introduced an enemy in their relationship, the enemy known as mistrust. They longer had trust for each other. She feared sending him alone to buy drugs with her money because he would take more than his share on the way home. He felt the same way about her. “It just starts eating away at your love, your partnership, the whole marriage,” she admits. Doctor Akoury reacts to this professionally and informs Jimssy that drugs will remain bad irrespective of the influence you may get from any of your friends. We will continue listening to Jimssy in our next article but for now, we must choose and choose wisely. This life we have, we can only live it once and when we still have that opportunity, then we must consult with the medical experts from time to time to have things done the right way. Talk to us today at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center and we will offer you real time solutions to all your addiction problems.

The battles of Heroin Addiction in Families: The wrong choices we often make

Parental Obligations in controlling Drug Addiction

May 13, 2015

Parental Obligations in controlling Drug Addiction: Important Facts to Observe

Parental Obligations in controlling Drug Addiction is key irrespective of your economical engagements.

While looking at the roles of parents in taming substance abuse in our previous article, we highlighted certain lesion points from what other parents have experience while exercising their parental obligations in controlling drug addiction. It became clear that most of us have let our children plunge in to the intoxication of addiction, for very simple reasons like denial. Of the seven lessons we were able to address two and we want to progress with the remaining five as we progress into this discussion as follows:

My addict is a liar
My addict is a criminal
Others don’t want them around
Life will not be the same
Homelessness may be the path he chooses

Parental Obligations in controlling Drug Addiction: My Addict is a Liar

Traditionally addicts will often find something to hide their habits with and ensure that their real business is not exposed. It is possible that when they are making all these efforts of concealment, they may not be in their proper senses to tell exactly what they are doing. They are actually not even aware that they are lying because to them, they are telling you exactly what you want to hear. Normally they their motive is sincere of trying to seek your approval of their deeds and not really for pride. It is also true that most addicts are not happy with themselves for their actions are only that they have no way out at least while still in that state of mind. At this point their only survival ways would be to seek for some approval by telling lies no matter the consequences. As parents we will be laid to whether it is an innocent lie or not, it will still remain to be a lie. Like in my case when my addicted son tells me that he is not abusing drugs, I don’t buy that and instead I tell him repeatedly that “my eyes can hear even better than my ears” because ideally what they say is not what is really happening. It is therefore very important that we make efforts of finding facts for ourselves and not relying on what the children tell us. If you were to rely on what they say you may be surprised that you have no clue of who your child really is. Choose to be on top of everything so that you can be in a better position of protecting your children from all the harms of drug addictions.

Parental Obligations in controlling Drug Addiction: My addict is a Criminal

It is normal to feel hurt when someone tells you that your child is a criminal or is showing signs of being one. Honestly I won’t take that kindly but when it comes to drug abuse, before you get angry and dismiss in rage the whistle blower about the behavior of your son, investigate. Remember that symptoms of this disease include illegal behaviors and criminality is justified. But as many would become outrageous about such adjectives so will be the consequences of drug addiction. Substance abuse can cause your child to be incarcerated. So be warned and if you don’t heed the warnings, then be ready to face up to it dear parents. If he has done things wrong under the influence of his addiction, you must be ready to pay the price to the society. It will do you no good to bad mouth the police, judges, prisons, advocates and so on. Remember that this people or institutions did not cause the problem neither did they put him there instead it is his actions that sent him there.

I know this may not sound good to most of us because of the attachment we have with our children. But wait a minute, interrogate your memory line and remember that one fateful evening when you were at the comfort of your living room and you heard gun short in your neighborhood. You were terrified and when calm was restored you realized that it was your best friend who was the victim and he did not make it. Luckily the thugs were arrested and this was the head line news in the subsequent days. The thugs were all found guilty and sentenced according to the provisions of the law. Am justifying that when we read about others or watch on TV and in jail we appreciate how much they deserve to be there but our babies aren’t like them. In my view and this is from experience is that, it doesn’t how we can justify and separate the wrongs by misdemeanor and felony but the truth is those are legal terms to which our children are not immune to. Am not saying that you should be happy about it, No because no one can, the law needs to be applied to all and if my addicted son has done some wrong things that got him put in there, it is very sad and painful not just for me as a parent but to the whole society and he must pay for his actions.

Parental Obligations in controlling Drug Addiction: Others don’t want them around

Isolation is one element that people don’t want to be associated with. However acts of violence and hooliganism arising out of substance abuse often cause people to keep distance from the victims. Therefore if the society feels otherwise and they don’t want them (our addicted) sons and daughters, then that are justified because they have wronged the society and its people. I am in agreement with my fellow parents that we all ore our children that unconditional love, and for sure as an individual I love my children unconditionally, that is the indisputable truth and it will remain that way so long as am still alive. However it is not wrong in any way for friends, brothers, sisters, grandparents, relatives to have their own feelings and pain about this situation. We are all at liberty to make choices and if we make the wrong choices, there will be consequences. Finally no matter the consequences our (AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center) doors are always open for you daily. We are standing in the gap for you and will be more than willing to offer our expertise in your addiction recovery. Our team of experts led by doctor Dalal Akoury will be there waiting for your appointment call and in the most confidential and professional manner address your individual situations satisfactorily.

Parental Obligations in controlling Drug Addiction: Important Facts to Observe

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes

May 12, 2015

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes: The Bad Effects to Health

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes are only helpful when the individual patients are not in denial of their conditions

Heroin withdrawal effects and coping modes are some of the elements that most addicts are afraid of and this is really affecting their recovery process. With this attitude treatment becomes very difficult because one has to begin by first convincing the addicts to accept registering for the program. Some of the pertinent questions we should be asking ourselves now that we are aware that heroin withdrawal and coping modes are the problems include the following: what are the actual effects of these heroin withdrawal symptoms – and how do they impact the long-term health and well-being of the individual patients? As an institution (AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of Doctor Dalal Akoury’s care) we are on top of things and our objective is to kick out all manner of addictions from our societies. That is why we only post worthy health articles tailored to helping our clients get the much needs health solutions. Therefore in this article, we have particularly designed it to convey health information in the simplest language to help in shedding some light on the impact of heroin withdrawal and also to help those who are going through the process en route to their recovery whether you are directly or indirectly affected.

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes: Withdrawal from Heroin can lead to Discomfort

There are a number of uncomfortable side effects that accompany heroin withdrawal. These symptoms are not all that life threatening as is always the general rule, but all the same they are the leading reason why individuals relapse or add urgency to their search for that “next fix.” Some of the uncomfortable heroin withdrawal symptoms include:

Restlessness
Sleeplessness
Anxiety
Sweating
Chills
Fever
Twitching

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes: The Effects of Heroin Withdrawals can lead to Emotional Issues

Besides the known physical discomfort that goes hand in hand with heroin withdrawal, doctor Akoury says that there are a number of mental health issues that the individual may experience as well, such may include the following:

Depression
Anxiety
Suicidal thoughts
Sudden mood swings
Irritability

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes: Heroin Withdrawal can lead to relapse

Of course, the most serious effect of heroin withdrawal is relapse, since the individual addicts are not able to live with the discomfort of withdrawal. To escape from this discomforting experience in many instances they will turn to the only thing that they know best that can provide relief which is more heroin even though they are struggling to stop their addiction to the drug itself. This is the reason why most if not all heroin rehab programs insist that the individuals must first complete the heroin detox process before they can be allowed to moving on into the main population of the facility. The risk of relapse is simply too great without it.

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes: How long do Heroin Withdrawal Effects last?

It may not be convenient to point out with confidences the time frame that one will last in heroin withdrawal. However the duration and intensity of heroin withdrawal effects will depend greatly on the individual addict and their particular situation. Those individuals who have been using heroin habitually for many years are likely to experience stronger withdrawal symptoms than those who have only been using it for a short period of time. As a general rule however, the individual who is engaged in natural heroin detox can expect their withdrawal symptoms to last anywhere from 2-3 days to 2-3 weeks depending on the severity of their heroin addiction.

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes: Helping Cope with the Withdrawal Symptoms of Heroin

Individuals who are coping with heroin withdrawal can benefit greatly from the care of treatment workers and professionals. Whether at a heroin detox center or a drug rehab program, these heroin addiction treatment experts know how to provide comfort and medical care that ensures the individual stays safe while getting rid of this dangerous drug.

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes: Bad Heroin and Its Effects on Your Health

There is no doubt that there is no positive health effects derived from heroin use. In fact, heroin is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance and is not available by prescription or for medical use. Heroin is illegal, which means that heroin production and distribution is completely uncontrolled. Every bag you buy is completely different from the last because it is cut differently and has a different potency. This means that even the most seasoned heroin addicts end up in the hospital or dead due to heroin overdose. Doctor Akoury and her team of experts stands with the principle that heroin is bad from the beginning to end and that should also be your position.

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes: Health Conditions Associated with Heroin

There are a number of bad health effects of heroin. Infectious, blood-borne diseases like HIV and Hepatitis C are especially common among those who are regularly injecting heroin using needles and share those needles with other users. Those who use needles intravenously also will experience collapsed veins and those who use intramuscularly are more likely to develop abscesses. Infections of the heart lining and valves is also a common issue among needle users, and even those who smoke or snort the drug open themselves up to kidney and liver failure and respiratory illnesses. The decreased defenses and overall health of a heroin addict means an increased rate of illnesses like pneumonia and permanent damage to vital organs.

Finally realizing that more deaths are being registered annually due to various kinds of addiction, Dr. Akoury made a decision to create a medical center whose main objective is to transform each individual’s life through increasing awareness about health and wellness and by empowering individuals to find their own inner healing power. Dr. Akoury’s practice focuses on personalized medicine through healthy lifestyle choices that deal with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of patching up symptoms. This is the place to be for the very best in your addiction recovery. Take that bold healthy step and schedule for that lifesaving appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury today.

Heroin Withdrawal Effects and Coping modes: The Bad Effects to Health

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