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Uneven heroin addiction recovery process

September 12, 2016
Uneven heroin addiction

Uneven heroin addiction recovery process will be made easier and friendly with doctor Dalal Akoury decades of working experience and professionalism

Uneven heroin addiction recovery process: Fighting craving

For some time now we have been sharing about the story of this lady who was struggling with heroin addiction and became homeless so many times. This story gives us the true picture of the uneven heroin addiction recovery process more so with the every challenge of relapse and craving for the same drug. As for this lady having been homeless for days she says “I was finally hosted by a friend who was not aware that am struggling with heroin addiction.” She understands well the uneven heroin addiction recovery process. At her new home at her friend’s house she says “I could not hold it no matter the efforts I made and I took a small shot before going to bed. I finished it off the following morning in her bathroom and this time round committed to going cold turkey.”

The new environment was very hostile to me and since I knew nobody in the area there was very little I could do to get another shot no matter the intensity of craving. Things happened very first and this one thing I’ll never forget. The first morning, I was very nervous as I sat and waited for the unforeseeable. Together with my friend we sat chatting trying to catch up with the lost time and believe you me, I tried all I could not to let her notice my struggle but deep inside I was not myself.

Uneven heroin addiction recovery process: It is not about heroin only but all substances

As the hours went by, I kept running into her bathroom to do what the people I knew called “cotton shots” and “scrape bags” (keeping empty bags and used cottons to try to get a tiny bit of dope just to take the edge off). I thought doing this would help or delay the withdrawal. But in reality, it was just like a nervous tic. The demands of my body said something else and it kept pushing and reminding me that “it’s time for a shot” so I did whatever I could to comply. It will be my pleasure if my story can help you in this journey we are calling the uneven heroin addiction recovery process. Remember that it is not just about heroin addiction but this is applicable even to other substance abuse. I then noticed that I was shaking violently as I tried to shoot up what was basically dirty water. It was not a very good seen because I was struggling to locate the veins on my arms and in the process jabbing randomly and bleeding furiously everywhere.

This became the order of the day and while at the bathroom all I could do was shooting up water, vomiting constantly in the toilet and soaking my achy body in a hot bath. Dear readers she posse, the pain of addiction is indescribable. Nonetheless when I could not cope any longer it had to come out in the open and I begged my friend to help me find something just anything that could “get me through this.” Like a good friend she was she tried (or claimed to) but she didn’t have a clue. One day she came to me with some prescription strength ibuprofen and I almost strangled her. But after all she was letting me stay in her house and puke in her toilet so I couldn’t afford to be a bad houseguest and the story continues in our next article … but in the meantime, from the narrations above, it is obvious that addiction harts and treatment also come with its own challenges. To help you overcome those challenges, you should consider calling experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center for professional assistance and doctor Dalal Akoury will help you in the most professional way to get your life back and enjoy life to the fullest.

Uneven heroin addiction recovery process: Fighting craving

 

 

 

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Withdrawal syndromes and coping strategies

September 9, 2016
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Withdrawal syndromes and coping strategies. AWAREmed addiction treatment programs will help you get sober again much faster

Withdrawal syndromes and coping strategies: Bad health effects of heroin

Heroin withdrawal syndrome effects and coping strategies are some of the most disturbing fears most addicts sight as reasons of their unwillingness to enroll for treatment in various health facilities for timely recovery process. With this attitude treatment becomes very difficult because one has to begin by first addressing the issues of denial. Making such patients come to terms with their health situation is often very difficult. Some of the pertinent questions we should be asking ourselves now that we are aware that heroin withdrawal syndromes and coping strategies are the problems may 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 at helping our clients/patients get the much needed 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 syndrome and also to help those who are going through the process en route to their recovery whether you are directly or indirectly affected.

Withdrawal from heroin can cause some 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:

  • Anxiety
  • Chills
  • Fever
  • Restlessness
  • Sleeplessness
  • Sweating
  • Twitching

Withdrawal can also cause 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:

Relapse

Finally doctor Akoury agrees that, the most serious effect of heroin withdrawal syndrome is relapse. Because individual addicts are not able to live with the discomfort of withdrawal they often go back to their old habits. To escape from this discomforting experience in many instances they will turn to the only thing 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 therefore inevitable in most cases. However when it happens, it will not be a sign of failure, you can always pick up the pieces and get back to the recovery process and defeat the problem. You may want to call doctor Akoury for further guidelines over this whole issues of withdrawal syndrome and coping strategies for a much better performance on your part.

Withdrawal syndromes and coping strategies: Bad health effects of heroin

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Understanding heroin competently

September 2, 2016
Understanding heroin competently

Understanding heroin competently. Heroin addiction factors associated with depression includes all the factors increasing addiction risk on drug users.

Understanding heroin competently: Establishing your heroin problems

Over the years we have been posting very informative health blogs concerning drug abuse and including heroin which is going to be our focus for a while in our subsequent postings. We have since noticed that the rate at which this is increasing is worrying and as professionals at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury we will continue giving our contribution to ensure that the prevalence of substance abuse is reduced to manageable levels. In our interaction with clients and patients from time to time, we have noticed that the public are not really informed of the consequences of these substances. And most worrying is that even if they are directly affected, it takes others to notice but the real victim is not even aware that he/she is addicted to heroin or any other drug. We want to use this forum to further create more awareness of the prevalence of heroin and the question we want to respond to is understanding heroin competently. And for the simplicity of our understanding heroin competently, we have segmented the discussion in four question of great concern. We hope that this will help you understand better what heroin really is and how you can protect yourself from the scourge. The four questions of concerns include:

Heroin is an illegal, highly addictive drug. It is not just the most abused drug but it is also the most rapidly acting of the opiates. These characteristics have put it to be the leading opiate abused in the global opiate market. With the help of the professionals at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, we will be discussing these questions one by one progressively in our subsequent articles. But in the meantime even as we bring this article to an end, the consequences of heroin addiction forces us to be on high alert and be quick in understanding heroin competently.

And to help us in creating that competent understanding, doctor Dalal Akoury MD, 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 a very good step in finding lasting solution to those struggling with heroin addiction. If this description suites your situation, you may want to call doctor Dalal Akoury on telephone number 843 213 1480 for a more and one on one further professional deliberations.

Understanding heroin competently: Establishing your heroin problems

 

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Addressing heroin overdose and drug abuse complications

September 2, 2016
Addressing heroin overdose

Addressing heroin overdose and drug abuse complications. Heroin long term effects on the body organs. The drug abuse development into addiction complications often begins little by little and grows in to serious health complication.

Addressing heroin overdose and drug abuse complications: Why do people Abuse Drugs

In one of the drug addiction forum, doctor Dalal Akoury MD and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center while addressing heroin overdose indicated that quitting heroin is no problem, the real problem is staying off the addiction. This is true because a serious heroin user who misses a dose or two suffers the painful withdrawal symptoms. Worse than the physical symptoms are the debilitating depression and the knowledge that just one dose would make all the pains go away. In a few days, withdrawal ends but the cravings do not. Long-term heroin use causes users to hunger for heroin just in the same way we often hunger for food. Most users today have been through treatment multiple times, and only five to fifteen percent stay off for good. It is not a question of low self-control, cravings never ends, it may not show for a while but when triggered, it may not matter how long you have been off the drugs you are still able to relapse.

The society is not helping either. We often feel adamant in accepting the rehabilitated addicts or those who have served their jail terms. Take for example many organizations are not willing to absorb former convicts in job positions. Actually very few if will hire someone with a criminal record, especially for heroin. Just when users need help rebuilding a stable life, their criminal records cripple their job applications and bar them from college loans, assistance programs and professional licenses.

Addressing heroin overdose and drug abuse complications: The users trying to quit for good run the greatest risk of overdose.

Regular heroin users know how much of the drug their bodies can take. They increase their habit slowly, building up a high opiate tolerance. But when they quit, their bodies rapidly lose this tolerance. If they stay clean for a few weeks and then inject their usual dose, the dose may be fatal. If you followed the story of the young boy who only after two weeks of freedom from jail term, borrowing his friend’s car, his tolerance dropped enough that the usual dose killed him.

Others die from taking heroin with cocaine and alcohol, or from bad batches that the dealer mixed poorly or blended with toxic substances. Bad batches are par for the course, since the dealer’s only qualification as a pharmacist is his willingness to risk his life and the lives of others. But the most common reason for overdose is relapse use. In fact, studies show that people who die of heroin overdose actually have on average lower levels of heroin in their bodies than living users. This means that it is the people trying hardest to quit who are at the greatest risk of dying.

Addressing heroin overdose and drug abuse complications: We could stop people from dying of overdose, except we can’t find them.

Many are surprised to learn that heroin overdose deaths are entirely preventable. Naloxone which is administered by injection or nasal spray reverses overdose within seconds by dislodging the drug from the brain’s opiate receptor sites. Naloxone is available in hospitals and is often carried by paramedics and some police officers. In a small number of cities, community-based overdose programs train users, family and friends to administer naloxone. All this in an attempt of addressing heroin overdose and drug abuse complications. You can also seek for more clarity from doctor Dalal Akoury at your convenience.

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Heroin abuse prevention techniques

August 26, 2016
Heroin abuse prevention

You can be free from heroin abuse by applying working prevention techniques

Heroin abuse prevention techniques: The practicality of effective avoidance

Among all the known treatment procedures, prevention is always the best of them all. In the same way, heroin abuse prevention would be the best approach in addressing heroin addiction that is threating to wipe out a whole generation. No one can dispute that. It is economical to prevent than to try correcting mistakes accruing from failure to prevent. Heroin is one of the substances that are often abused across the globe due to various factors. Currently heroin is easily accessible to the market at affordable rates further compounding the various prevention campaigns. While it’s practically impossible to prevent people from using drugs, there are a number of things we can all do to avoid drug (heroin) and alcohol abuse.

It is because of that in ability that experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury who is also the founder of the facility are making their contribution by creating awareness to the general public of the importance of prevention of substance abuse. You too can be part of this noble exercise by being a good ambassador of change. If you are wondering how you can be part of this then I want to inform you that you are already taking part just by being on this link reading these very informative health information. You can as well share this knowledge up on understanding it with those closest to you and particularly those struggling with drug addiction. By doing that you never know you could be helping someone get out of drugs, however if you are already into drugs then you can schedule for an appointment with doctor Akoury today for a one on one professional treatment that will leave you healthier than you are now. In the meantime the following are some of practical ways to help you in preventing further drug abuse:

The five are just but a very small portion of what you can do to help in the prevention of drug abuse. There are so many things you can do but for now we are going to look at the five briefly as we progress into the discussion. Doctor Dalal Akoury is going to be sharing with us some of the insights of the necessary things that if well-articulated will go a long way in delivering the much needed victory that we are looking for.

Heroin abuse prevention techniques: The practicality of effective avoidance

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