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Cocaine addiction triggers

June 6, 2017
Cocaine addiction triggers

Cocaine addiction triggers must be avoided if we have to succeed in bringing this problem to manageable levels

Cocaine addiction triggers: Mindset sensitivity about cocaine addiction

From the mindset sensitivity of cocaine addiction the next point to focus on would be the identifying triggers to the substance of abuse and for our case, we are talking about cocaine addiction triggers. It is important that therapists should work very closely with their patients to develop a comprehensive list of their own triggers. Some patients become overwhelmed when asked to identify cues. From experience doctor, Akoury says that when handling addicts, you will notice that someone may even associate breathing with cocaine use. Again, it may be most helpful therefore to concentrate on identifying the craving and cues that have been most problematic to the patient in recent weeks. This should commence immediately during the therapy session and this should include self-monitoring of craving so that patients can begin to identify new and more subtle cues as they arise.

Cocaine addiction triggers: Avoiding cues

When considering the avoidance of cues, it is always advisable that you keep in mind the general strategy of “recognize, avoid, and cope.” These strategies are particularly applicable to the craving for all substances and not necessarily cocaine. Doctor Akoury says that real experts would first identify the patients’ most problematic cues then make an exploration of the degree to which some of those could be avoided. This will come with certain sacrifices including breaking ties or reducing contact with individuals who use or supply you with cocaine, getting rid of paraphernalia, staying out of bars or other places where cocaine is used, or no longer carry money, as in the following example:

Finally, in dealing with the perception of the mind about cocaine addiction one needs not to let any stone unturned. I am saying this because we are all aware that cocaine is an illegal substance but other substances like alcohol which are legal can form a perfect avenue for the consumption of cocaine without being noticed. Besides that, the ability to pay for the substance is another point of consideration. When the financial strength allows users to access cocaine could easily form a solution in an alcoholic drink. Therefore experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center recommends that for any meaningful treatment to be realized, therapists and other professionals in the line of substance abuse must spend considerable time exploring the relationship between alcohol and cocaine with patients who use them together to such an extent that alcohol becomes a powerful cocaine cue. Specific strategies to reduce, or preferably, stop alcohol use should be explored. We appreciate that doing this may not be easy for many people and that is why doctor Akoury will be readily available on call for you to schedule an appointment so that any pending or unclear issues relating to addiction can be attended to professionally.

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Neurotransmitter role in drug addiction

October 10, 2016
Neurotransmitter role

Neurotransmitter role in drug addiction includes the treatment of cancer related pain

Neurotransmitter role in drug addiction: Risk and reward that trigger for the release of dopamine

Dopamine is neurotransmitter in the brain that plays vital roles in a variety of different behaviors. The major behaviors dopamine affects are movement, cognition, pleasure, and motivation. Dopamine is an essential component of the basal ganglia motor loop, as well as the neurotransmitter responsible for controlling the exchange of information from one brain area to another. However, it is the role that dopamine plays in pleasure and motivation that attracts the most neurobiologists attention. And that is why our discussion is focusing on dopamine the neurotransmitter role in drug addiction in this article. We would appreciate if you can stay with us on the link so that together we can learn and take action where necessary in order to defeat addiction. Nonetheless for a better understanding of this topic, we are going to be relying on the expert opinion of doctor Dalal Akoury (MD) who is also the founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center. This is a facility that she founded primarily to make a difference in the life of people who are suffering from the various forms of drug addiction which is very rampant in the current societies we live in.

For better understanding of this point doctor Dalal Akoury says that in certain areas of the brain when dopamine is released it gives one the feeling of pleasure or satisfaction. These feelings of satisfaction become desired, and the person will grow a desire for the satisfaction. To satisfy that desire the person will repeat behaviors that cause the release of dopamine. For example food and sex release dopamine. That is why people want food even though their body does not need it and why people sometimes need sex. These two behaviors scientifically make sense since the body needs food to survive, and humans need to have sex to allow the race to survive. However, other, less natural behaviors have the same effect on one’s dopamine levels, and at times can even be more powerful. Often these behaviors can result in addiction due to their effect on dopamine, and that addiction can have negative effects on a person’s well-being.

Neurotransmitter role in drug addiction: Cocaine

Cocaine is by far more severe in relation to other substances in terms of addiction. Cocaine chemically inhibits the natural dopamine cycle. Normally, after dopamine is released, it is recycled back into a dopamine transmitting neuron. However, cocaine binds to the dopamine, and does not allow it to be recycled. Thus there is a buildup of dopamine, and it floods certain neural areas. The flood ends after about 30 minutes, and the person is left yearning to feel as he or she once did. That is how the addiction begins and with time adaptation builds up due to the fact that the person is consistently behaving in the same way that he or she had the first time. However, the individual cannot, because dopamine is also released when something pleasurable yet unexpected occurs. During the first time, the person expects the effect, thus less dopamine is released, and the experience is less satisfying. This cause explains why gambling releases dopamine.

Many studies have been done which targeted neural response to rewards. The findings were in agreement that when one performed an action repeatedly, and is given a reward randomly, the dopamine levels rises. If the reward is administered for example every four times the action was performed, the dopamine levels remained constant. Whereas when no reward is given dopamine levels dropped. These random rewards can be seen in gambling and since the outcome is based on chance, one may not know prior if he or she will win. Therefore, if he or she wins, dopamine levels increases. However, unlike cocaine, gambling causes addiction in relatively low levels of participants. This is because Cocaine’s chemical input is much more influential on dopamine levels than gambling’s behavioral input meaning that only people whose dopamine levels are low, become addicted to gambling. This may sound technical and complicated, but a phone call to doctor Dalal Akoury will make it much easier for you if only you can schedule for that appointment today.

Neurotransmitter role in drug addiction: Risk and reward that trigger for the release of dopamine

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Cocaine abuse ruins human health

September 9, 2016
Cocaine abuse ruins human health

Cocaine abuse ruins human health and all the body organs

Cocaine abuse ruins human health: Chest pain

If you are still wallowing in the wilderness of ignorance, then this article cones to you at the best time of acknowledging how cocaine abuse ruins human health in very many ways. In fact this substance affects the whole body and its most sensitive organs too. With the help of doctor Dalal Akoury MD and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, we are going to be touching on the various organs that are directly affected by cocaine abuse as follows.

One of the most common reasons for requiring emergency treatment is the enormous tightening of blood vessels, in the coronary arteries and the rest of the body. Cocaine deprives the heart of its normal blood supply, increasing the risk of a heart attack or a heart rhythm disturbance which might cause the user to drop dead suddenly. The shape of the pattern on the electrocardiogram (heart trace) can look worrying to the doctor, especially as it can change from minute to minute. But in most cases it settles down and no major harm results.

Cocaine abuse ruins human health: The heart, blood pressure/vessels

Consistent use of cocaine causes massive stresses and strains on the blood vessels in the coronary arteries and the rest of the body. This leads to a build- up of cholesterol in the walls of arteries, especially the coronary arteries. With cocaine use your blood vessels can be 30 years older than your age which can lead to unexpected heart attack.

Cocaine releases massive amounts of noradrenaline from the nerve endings, which causes blood vessels right through the body to narrow. This leads to a major surge in blood pressure. To the onlooker, the user looks pale and staring, but there may be no other outward signs of the enormous rise in blood pressure. This may still cause a heart attack. The heart aorta is very vulnerable to cocaine abuse. A surge in blood pressure following cocaine use forces the blood between the inner and outer casings of the aorta and each time the heart pumps this false passage becomes longer and more liable to block off a branch vessel or to burst, with possibility of fatal results.

Brain and the nose

Regular cocaine use can lead to a bulging weakness in the wall of a branch point of the arteries in the brain. This is often called a berry aneurysm. Eventually this aneurysm bursts, and blood pouring out of the leak is known as a subarachnoid hemorrhage. If not corrected, it can cause major damage to the brain. This damage can be permanent leading to difficulties in thought, speech, sight and movement. Cocaine powder is ‘snorted’ into the nostrils, and although it is rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream, the drug also causes the blood vessels in the lining of the nose passages to shrink. Shortly after use, the blood vessels widen again, and the red, runny stuffed-up nose of the recent user can be a telltale sign.

Cocaine abuse ruins human health: Skin

During treatment, some people may experience some unfriendly crawling feelings beneath the skin as they are withdrawing from cocaine. They may describe cocaine bugs as biting, creeping, burning or itching, and may scratch their skin until it bleeds. Although this sensation can be treated to some extent by tranquillizer type drugs, in most cases the user has to wait until it settles down and goes away of its own accord.

Finally cocaine is not any drug you would want to flow in your system. It is highly addictive and life threatening. If you are struggling with this drug, you may have noticed that from this article, very vital organs of the body are all affected by this drug. Your health cannot be compared with anything. You must make a U turn to redeem your life back. Doctor Dalal Akoury will help in every step of the way. All you need to do is to schedule for an appointment with her today.

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Cancerous chronic nature and effect of cocaine

September 5, 2016
Cancerous chronic nature

Understanding Cancerous chronic nature and effect of cocaine.

Cancerous chronic nature and effect of cocaine: Long and short term effects

There is no doubt that cocaine is very addictive substance. Its power of addictiveness makes it to be very unpredictable and thus users may not be able to tell or control the extent to which they will continue to want or use the drug. Doctor Akoury says that with these characteristics, if one is to become addicted, the risk for relapse will be very high even after long periods of abstinence. Some studies have established that during periods of abstinence, the memory of the cocaine experience or exposure to cues associated with drug use can trigger tremendous craving and relapse to drug use. It is this craving element that will necessitate the long and short term effects of cocaine which is going to form the basis of this discussion.

Cocaine causes a short-lived, intense high that is immediately followed by the opposite intense depression, edginess and a craving for more of the drug. Users of cocaine often don’t eat or sleep properly. They can experience greatly increased heart rate, muscle spasms and convulsions. The drug can make them feel paranoid, angry, hostile and anxious even when they are just sober and not high. Doctor Akoury says that irrespective of the quantity of drugs used or frequency with which it is used, cocaine increases the vulnerability of addicts into contracting chronic diseases like heart attack, stroke, seizure or respiratory (breathing) failure. These conditions can be life threatening and any of them can result in sudden death.

Cancerous chronic nature and effect of cocaine: Long term effects

When people abuse cocaine over a period of time, a lot of things can happen in the lives of such individuals. Some of those health implications may include the following:

  • Permanent damage to blood vessels of the heart and the brain
  • High blood pressure that will occasionally leads to other chronic health conditions including heart attacks, strokes and even death
  • The damage of vital organs like the liver, kidney and the lungs
  • Damages of the nose tissues especially when sneezing
  • Respiratory failure if smoked
  • Infectious diseases and abscesses if injected
  • Malnutrition, weight loss

The point we have highlighted may not be conclusive as far as the long term effects is concern. It would be better if you are up to date will all health information surrounding this substance abuse. Such information in their conclusiveness is available at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center. All you need to do is to seek for help by scheduling for an appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury any your condition will be professionally addressed timely leaving you to enjoy life to the fullest.

Cancerous chronic nature and effect of cocaine: Short term effects

  • Loss of appetite causing the addict not to feed properly
  • Intense drug craving
  • Bizarre, erratic, sometimes violent behavior
  • Convulsions, seizures and sudden death from high doses (even one time)
  • Tactile hallucination that creates the illusion of bugs burrowing under the skin
  • Increased heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature
  • Contracted blood vessels
  • Dilated pupils
  • Disturbed sleep patterns

Finally it is not just enough to know the long and short term effects of cocaine but it is equally very important that you learn from the past people who had gone through the same experience. And I want to conclude this discussion with a testimony from one former addict who is now sober and he says “don’t touch cocaine. I had to spend four years behind bars just because of this drug (cocaine). And when I got out he continues, life was so hard and unbearable. I started taking the drug again. In this drug business, I have known 10 girls who were full of life but who became prostitutes because of cocaine. It’s much more extreme and degrading than we believe. At the time we don’t realize to what degree it destroys us he concludes.” Choose life and seek for help doctor Akoury will be waiting for your call.

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The Addictiveness of Cocaine Family of Drugs

May 11, 2015

The Addictiveness of Cocaine Family of Drugs: Cola Plant Being the Source

The Addictiveness of Cocaine Family of Drugs

The Addictiveness of Cocaine Family of Drugs offers the greatest threat of life

If you have been with us on this link for sometimes now, you must be aware that, the families of cocaine drugs are some of the most addictive substance in the world. These drugs are very dangerous both to the patients and even to their loved ones. That danger is not doing the economies of the world any justice and that is why we want to enter into this discussion of the addictiveness of cocaine family of drugs in our families, neighborhoods and the general societies at large. In our previous articles doctor Dalal Akoury took us through the origin of cocaine, and just a brief recoup, she mentioned that cocaine is a white powder refined from the coca plant which grows mainly in South America and the Asian continent.

Experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury indicates that users of this drug have a common characteristic on how they administer cocaine into their systems. Under normal circumstances, it is usually spread on a smooth surface such as glass and cut up with a razor blade to form a thin lines or trails which can then be sniffed up through a makeshift straw such as a banknote. Snorting is actually one of the most common forms of consumption although there are some other ways too like injection and smoking. It is easily absorbed through the lining of the nose. However if this method is used repeated (snorting), a lot of damages can be caused on the membranes of the nose which may also perforate the nasal septum which is the barrier separating one side of the nose and the other. These damages can be avoided only if you chose to do the right thing. Like for instance scheduling for an appointment with doctor Akoury will be a step in the right direction for your full recovery.

Cocaine and crack speed up the body in a similar way to amphetamines, but the effect is shorter and more intense – less than an hour for cocaine and as short as several minutes for crack. As with amphetamines, cocaine releases an intense rush of energy, makes a person feel good, mentally sharp, talkative and confident. When blood levels begin to dive, the craving is often overwhelming to take more. And just like with all drugs and life experiences, the greater the high, the worse the fall.

The early euphoric experience disappears in heavy users, who can feel very restless, with nausea, excitability, extreme agitation, anxiety, and paranoia and possible hallucinations. It is important to note that very high doses can rarely cause heart failure, convulsions and death. Regular cocaine users often have interrupted sleep patterns. They feel unable to cope until they’ve had some Charlie, stressed-out and irritable. Life for weekend users can become a process of trying to get through the week until Friday. Regular users may feel that they cannot have a “good time” without the drug. Stopping the drug produces terrible headaches, tiredness, nausea, sleepiness and depression.

The Addictiveness of Cocaine Family of Drugs: Crack

Free basing (smoking) is done by mixing cocaine with other substances and sodium hydroxide. The salt base then dissolves leaving granules of pure cocaine which can be smoked in a pipe. The vapors in the lung hit the brain in eight seconds, producing a massive high which only lasts for ten minutes, after which the desire to have more is experienced and that is why people become very much addicted to these substances. Besides that cocaine and crack can also be used during sex to prolong sex in a man by acting as a local anesthetic on the genitalia.

The other problem with these drugs is that which directly affects the unborn babies commonly known as crack babies. This has been a great concern in most nations like in the US for example; a study conducted by NIDA established that up to 200,000 of substance abuse in pregnancy is crack or cocaine. Doctor Akoury reiterates that the effect on babies can be very fatal. Some of the known risk may include: premature labour, stillbirth, low birth weight, ectopic pregnancy, sudden infant death and small size at birth. Now the fatality of these drugs can affect the babies for life, like for instance such children may have permanent mental damage from the effects of what happened to them while in the womb. It must also be known that cocaine and alcohol can be a very hazardous combination since the human liver combines coca and alcohol metabolites to form new cocktails which are toxic.

The Addictiveness of Cocaine Family of Drugs: Crack related violence

In terms of reputation crack has nothing to be admired since it has all along been associated with extreme violence due to the obvious reasons like for instance, cocaine is highly addictive and the habit is expensive so large amounts of money are needed to keep a user happy and stakes are high for people seeking to control a distribution network area. The drug itself can cause anxiety, fear and paranoia, and when knives or guns are around, murder can easily be the result.

The Addictiveness of Cocaine Family of Drugs: Crack rehabilitation

This is one thing that has been very difficult and challenging. Crack addiction can be very hard in the sense that even attracting users into treatment programs can be a real challenge. Cocaine users are often very different culturally from heroin users and often prefer to keep well apart. Crack clients can be far more aggressive and instantly demanding than heroin users, and many drugs services find it hard to respond. Crack users are not offered substitute medication the equivalent to methadone for heroin users. Many crack users are black and feel uncomfortable in a white dominated support center. Finally, paranoia itself can fuel natural suspicions of authority.

So then, crack and cocaine are real threats even if their use is more limited than some feared it would be. Fashions in drug culture come and go. Expect further surges in crack consumption in particular groups over the next couple of decades with decline in others. Each wave of experimentation leaves a hard core of chronic addicts. They are a small minority of those who have ever used the drug but are a large part of the market.

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