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Opioids pill form energy and addiction

July 28, 2016
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Opioids pill form energy and addiction and the early treatment is administered the better

Opioids pill form energy and addiction: Addiction prevention and treatment

Experts from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center recommends that in tackling the global painkiller addiction epidemic, a well thought approach from all sectors of health care that includes all primary, secondary and tertiary care methods; clinical care approaches and even financiers like insurers working with providers to reduce barriers to addiction treatment that will secure prescription avenues to prevent over-prescription is very essential. Doctor Dalal Akoury MD and founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center is advising that when fighting opioid addiction opioids pill forms energy and addiction, it is important to appreciate that everybody needs to be involved and therefore one such group is the involvement of pharmacies. These are actually the source and therefore can assist at a patient-level is by applying the tenets of compounding as preventative measures. This (Compounding) is meant to provide a better care for those already struggling with addiction by providing alternative but less-systemic and easier delivery methods tailored to specific individual patient needs. These measures will fundamentally reduce the risk of addiction for all patients and will directly benefit individuals with a history of or tendency to opioid pills (painkiller) addiction.

Opioids pill form energy and addiction: The most desired form of pain killers

Most of the opiates being abused by addicted patients are in pill form. These are easy to open up, transport, and also provide the brain toxicology-altering high that addicts seek. Experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center are categorical that the easiest ways to fight addiction is to eliminate the reward from the situation entirely. This can be done by compounding oral painkillers into up-to-date creams and gels where possible with this the compounding pharmacies can lower the risk of addiction significantly. The good news about this is that not only do topical compounds deliver more localized pain relief and cause fewer complications due to lower absorption rates, a topical compound does not alter brain state the way oral opioids do when delivering the much needed high by users.

Besides that doctor Akoury registers that pharmacies can also provide alternative options for traditional painkillers which are typically reserved for patients who have allergies to certain medications thereby necessitating the need for compounded alternatives, using a painkiller alternative for Vicodin or Oxycontin that can lower prescriptions for the highly addictive and readily available painkillers. Patients or doctors with patients who are working on overcoming drug addiction can also work with a compounding pharmacy to help with “tapering,” or the act of slowly reducing ingested levels of opioids to safely treat the body’s addiction without abruptly cutting off supply.

Finally according to the information available with the public health sector, it is evident that compounding pharmacies contribute a lot to the fight against opioid addiction on both fronts at the macro level by working with researchers and other health care professionals to understand the broader development of these public health issues; and at the micro level by working with patients and physicians to use compounding to reduce the addictive properties of medications. If you are struggling with any kind of addiction we want to let you know that help is on the way and you can be well again in a very short time at affordable rates. Speak to us today and we will attend to you professionally.

Opioids pill form energy and addiction: Addiction prevention and treatment

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Correcting the brain damage from drug abuse

August 5, 2015

Correcting the brain damage from drug abuse: The generator of pathological activity

Correcting the brain damage from drug abuse

Correcting the brain damage from drug abuse must be every ones priority if we have to defeat addiction and its consequences

Did you know that drugs are the major cause of the death of the brain cells? The brain is one of the most sensitive organs in any human body where everything starts and ends. Death is always registered the moment ones brain stops functioning. Therefore we all have a duty to keep the good health we have by correcting the brain damages from drug abuse and doctor Dalal Akoury is going to take us through the discussion to unlock some of the sensitive things that we must do to keep the proper functionality of the brain. According to the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury, this could be the worst damage they cause to the brain. And remember that the degree of the brain damage from drug abuse is always defined by the prognosis of recovery. Sometimes unfavorable changes in the brain of a drug addict are so much overwhelming that they are not even able to realize the problem let alone the need for treatment. And even if they are, the deformed psyche, expressed in loss of willpower, doesn’t allow them to complete the treatment and refrain from using the drugs. Nonetheless such situations often come to the extreme cases. Besides that under normal circumstances addiction often creates a center of addiction in the brain, or so-called a generator of pathological activity for drug craving.

To illustrate this, let us take an example of a condition we are all familiar with that of epilepsy. This disease is characterized by periodically recurrent seizure syndrome and when a small portion of the brain cells (it can be quite small in size), figuratively speaking, “going crazy”. From time to time they reach the level of excitation which covers the whole brain. As a result, a person loses consciousness, falls down, the total muscle spasms make him convulse. When he comes regains his consciousness, he doesn’t remember what happened to him. Medically these “haywire” cells are called the generator of pathological activity. Now the connection is that about the same generator is formed in case of a drug addiction. However in this case the generator is that of attraction to drugs, self-excitation of which with different periodicity may also cover the entire brain and cause an uncontrollable, overpowering desire to take drugs thereafter. The activity of the generator leads to a constant, obsessive thoughts about drugs. Without treatment, this generator can persist for years, even if the person does not use the drugs during that time. Along with the formation of the generator of attraction to drugs, there is another type of brain damage from drug abuse, to the nervous system of a drug addict.

Another reason why correcting the brain damage from drug abuse is necessary is because the regular drug poisoning leads to severe changes in metabolism in the cells of the nervous system and especially in brain cells. These cells contain neurotransmitters which are the active substances whose presence in the inter-neuron synapses provides the transmission of electrical impulses to effectuate the functions of all kinds of nervous activities, including the higher nervous activity of a man’s mind, emotions, feelings, willpower, and so on. Doctor Akoury reiterates that the constant presence of the outer psycho active chemical substances badly affects the processes of neuro-transmission in the brain.  And remember that the altered brain reactivity will reflects in the changes of well-being and behavior pattern of an addict. When this happens he becomes lethargic, listless, emotionally limited. Gradually he will begin to lose interest in life, his cognitive abilities dwindle. Against this background, frequent outbreaks of anger and irritability become regular.

It’s fair to say, that shortly after the “fix”, the deficit of neurotransmitters in an addict’s brain temporarily shifts back to “normal”, and the victim feels better for a while. However, with each subsequent dose of narcotic, the further infringements in neuro transmitter systems of the brain ultimately become more and more profound.

Correcting the brain damage from drug abuse: Drug withdrawal

During the “withdrawal” the most unpleasant sensations are connected with an abrupt plummet of content of neurotransmitters in the brain. For instance, the dopamine content due to severe lack of transmitters can’t be utilized in time and may exceed the normal level few times. The excessive amount of dopamine is a real poison to the brain.

Drug withdrawal (especially opiate withdrawal) physically and mentally is a very disruptive condition. It may last from few days to a few weeks. You can get more information about opiate (Heroin, Methadone) withdrawal by scheduling for an appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury today and she will be more than willing to help you find answers to all your questions today.

It is further important to note that during withdrawal some time will lapse and within a few days the level of neurotransmitters will gradually returns to normal even though this may not be completely done, but all the same the symptoms of drug withdrawal subsides. Besides that another danger will come in handy waiting for the patient. This is commonly known as “dry withdrawal”.  After some time, when seemingly all is over, sometimes without any reason, but mostly after the stress, the balance of neurotransmitters breaks down again. At this point the patient starts re-experiencing some mental discomfort, nervousness, sleep disorders, hot-and-cold flashes and aggravated attraction to drugs.

Drug addiction, like many other chronic diseases, is characterized by fluctuating course, with alternate “ups and downs”. Most of the failures happen exactly on the peaks of these “ups”. That is why all drugs have the toxic effects and damages the body’s cells. This damage causes some element of pain in an individual and to fight this pain the victim will have to take more drugs further causing addiction to that substance and the situation to becomes a vicious circle: that is to say, the higher dose of drugs the more pain they cause, the more pain the more need to take the higher dose. As a result, the euphoric effect of the drugs, which was so attractive at the beginning, quickly disappears and leaves an addict to continue taking the drug just to avoid the pain and let him somehow to function “normally”.

Finally from the discussion we have seen that drug addiction is a very complex disease, which is fixed in many levels of the organism. Simple and quick methods, such as coding or isolated psychotherapy are absolutely inactive. To this doctor Akoury says that professionally drug addiction requires a serious multi-stage treatment at all levels and that will be very helpful in correcting the brain damage from drug abuse effectively.

Correcting the brain damage from drug abuse: The generator of pathological activity

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Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse

June 2, 2015

Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse: The possibilities of dealing with Addictions

The problem of alcohol and substance abuse has a very long history in every nation. Much as we may have the same narratives word by word, the common denominator in in all these stories is that drug abuse is a great threat to human lives and a set back to the economy of most nations. People who are directly affected by this problem will tell you of the great suffering they and their loved ones go through. These sufferings are what we the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center under the able leadership of doctor Dalal Akoury who is also the MD and the founder of the facility desires to address. Medically the best way of dealing with all manner of addictions is by endeavoring to prevent them and ensuring that no sought of substance abuse is anywhere close to our vicinity. Several studies have established that even though prevention is the best, many are still falling victims of alcohol and drug abuse even with the knowledge of prevention. And therefore while appreciating these facts and that it’s true that practically it’s impossible to prevent anyone and everyone from using drugs, there are several things we can all do to avoid drug and alcohol abuse from raging havoc in our families and societies. To help in offering the much needed solutions and with the guidance, of professionals from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center, we want to share with you some of the practical ways of preventing substance abuse and we believe that by sharing this knowledge with those closest to you, you yourself may be able to prevent them from doing drugs too and live their lives to the fullest. Here are some of the top preventive ways you can adopt to help prevent drug abuse:

Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse: Proper management of peer pressure

Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse

Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse when adopted can help many young people be safe with the authorities

In many families, parents and care givers are often caught unaware of their children involvement in drugs. Many of the times we all believe that we have done a good job in bringing them up morally and with high standards of discipline only to be told that they are not what we think they are. These often happen when we are not with them. Yes we teach our children the right ways of life, but those are just our good teachings, when they are out with their friends, they are also in another environment of teaching and it is this point that things begins to go wrong. And that therefore explains that the biggest reason teens start using drugs is because their friends employ peer pressure. The sense of belonging is one big problem that is very instrumental in luring our teens into drugs even with the good teachings we impact on them. No one likes to be left out, and teens (and yes, some adults, too) find themselves doing things they normally wouldn’t do, just to fit in. Therefore we have to deal with this problem from the on start, meaning that in such cases, as a teenager you need to either find a better group of friends that won’t pressure you into doing harmful things, or better still, you need to find a good way of saying no and when you say No let that position remains no matter the pressure circumstances and push and pull. Teens should prepare a good excuse or plan ahead of time, to keep from giving into tempting situations.

We appreciate that this may not be very easy and that is why our facility is open all the time to help you cope with the pressure as and when they come. You can therefore schedule for an appointment with doctor Dalal Akoury today for the much needed professional input in whatever addictive situation you may have found yourself in due to peer pressure. It is also very important that to note that doctor Akoury is also training other professionals on matters relating to drug addiction and how to be the best in offering solutions to your patients especially those struggling with drug addiction and alcohol abuse. This coming August doctor Akoury has organized an integrative addiction conference & expo under the theme “The Future of Integrative Addiction”. This conference (Integrative Addiction Conference 2015) mission is to provide prevention education, awareness, options and support to patients and physicians dealing with various forms of addiction. The conference is targeting doctors, counselors, nurses and addiction therapists and will cover will cover topics such as addiction as a holistic body ecosystem derangement, the interaction between stress, survivorship, pain and addiction, the role of hormonal imbalance in the disease of addiction, the genetic and epigenetic influences on the disease of addiction, psycho neuroendocrine immune restoration essential to reverse addiction as well as new and future therapies in the horizon for addiction treatment including stem therapy for psycho neuroendocrine immune restoration. More information on how to participate in this conference is via the event website – www.integrativeaddiction2015.com or email sharon@integrativeaddiction2015.com. This is an opportunity you don’t want to miss. Now back to the practical ways of preventing substance abuse.

Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse: Dealing with life pressure

People today are overworked and overwhelmed, and often feel like a good break or a reward is deserved. But in the end, drugs only make life more stressful and many of us all too often fail to recognize this in the moment. To prevent using drugs as a reward, find other ways to handle stress and unwind. Engage in healthy activities like exercising, reading good books, volunteering with the needy, in whatever you chose to do, ensure that you only create something that will impact positively. Engaging in positive things and relaxing helps take the mind off using drugs to relieve stress.

Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse: Seek help for mental illness

Mental illness and substance abuse often go hand-in-hand. Those with a mental illness may turn to drugs as a way to ease the pain. Those suffering from some form of mental illness, such as anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder should seek the help of a trained professional for treatment before it leads to substance abuse.

Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse: Examine the risk factors

It is always said that knowledge is power and this must never be taken for granted. Remember that if you’re aware of the biological, environmental and physical risk factors you possess, you’re more likely to overcome them. A history of substance abuse in the family, living in a social setting that glorifies drug abuse or family life that models drug abuse can be risk factors.

Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse: Keep a well-balanced life

People take up drugs when something in their life is not working, or when they’re unhappy about their lives or where their lives are going. Look at life’s big picture, and have priorities in order. And when there is any cropping problem, seek the attention of your doctor immediately, and for the professionals who would want to become the elite leaders in tomorrow’s addiction medicine, the Integrative Addiction Conference 2015 is a must attend and for more information about Integrative Addiction Treatment consult with:

Doctor Dalal Akoury

MD AWAREmed

Tel: 843 213 1480

Email: dollyanis@hotmail.com

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Practical Ways of Preventing Substance Abuse: The possibilities of dealing with Addictions

 

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The nature and stages of Drug use

July 22, 2014

The nature and stages of drug use – Drug Addiction

Whatever the reason may be this young children must not suffer because of your choice to use drugs

The problem of substance abuse and drug addiction is such a big issue of concern to all the stakeholders. Everybody is looking at this problem will wonder as to where is the point of disconnect because it appears that all that needs to be done is not being done either by the authorities or the individual addicts. For instance who doesn’t know the consequences of drug use! Yet we are still seeing the number of people being addicted to drugs increasing. I believe that you are equally wondering what it is, that we are missing. We will be looking at certain factors relating to the nature of drug use in this article to unlock the riddle behind this great concern.

The nature of drug use

For us to have a better understanding why people use drugs it will be necessary that we look at some three identical factors explaining the nature of drug use. These factors include:

  • The individuals personality
  • The type of drug you take
  • The context of your drug use

These factors are related and can’t be disconnected. They influence your reasons for using a drug and the effects it will have on you. We need to understand that there are different levels of drug use with different types of problems. Users may move between the different levels of drug use, for example one may have started using drugs heavily but along the way stops and begins to recover from the effects of drugs use. But then again in the process of recovery they may relapse and return to the same old habit of drug use. It is important noting that it is not automatic that when using drugs then this behavior will definitely lead to drug abuse, this is not always the case because drug use is totally different from drug abuse. Now let us look at some of the stages of drug use as follows:

Experimental use

In the holy book the author begins with these words “in the beginning God …” and so in everything we do there must be the starting point. The same with drugs one must have started from somewhere. Normally young people will try using drugs for the first time as an experiment and this is what we call the experimental stage. In the desire of wanting to feel accepted and belong to certain category of friends they try drugs to have the feelings their friend have. This stage greatly depends on various factors like the accessibility of the drug, the kind of friends you keep and often the current trend or fashion. Because one is testing the feelings you may continue using drugs or may stop along the way once your curiosity is satisfied. However this type of drug use is very risky for young people because many of them are not aware of the dangerous effects of indulgence into drugs.

Recreational drug use

This is another stage of drugs use where users indulges into drugs for marry making and having fun periodically like weekly and especially during the weekends doing this regularly makes it becomes part of your social life. Users of this stage often feel that they are in full control over their drug use and so even if they consume more they do not feel that this can lead them into being addicted to the drugs they use. This type of drug use only applies to certain drugs and contexts, for example ecstasy and dance culture. Most people who take recreational drugs see it as a ‘normal’ activity in their social circle.

Dependent drug use

Drugs has way of containing their users, you may think that you are on top of everything but this may not be so using drugs over period of time heavily you may not be able to control your usage. When you reach this point where you can’t control we call this dependence or addiction which may either be physical or psychological. Where physical dependence means that your body systems craves for drugs and psychological dependence is when you feel that you cannot cope without the drug you are using. It is important to know that this level of drug use usually happens on your own or in a small group. As well as making you sick, it often causes emotional, psychological and social problems.

Abstainers

These are those individuals who have chosen not to use any kind of drugs completely or if they ever used then they have stopped and have not only used them for a very long time but does not ever want to use drugs again.

These are therefore some of the stages of drug use and having discussed them we are now left wondering actually why do people use drugs?

Why people take drugs

There are many reasons why people take drugs and here are some of the factor which can influence them:

  • Risk taking – people are drawn to risk taking differently. They may use drugs to fit in with their social group or to help them cope, for a sense of release or individual transformation, or for the thrill.
  • Predisposition – it may be because of your genetic or psychological characteristics meaning you are more likely to take drugs.
  • Experimentation – some people try drugs for the first time as an experiment and out of curiosity or because their friends are doing it. They want to explore to see how it affects them and talk about their experiences with their friends afterwards.

  • Gender and age – the age you are when you first try drugs can influence how you will go on to use them. For example, the younger you are when you start drinking alcohol, the more likely you are to try hard drugs later on. Young men are more likely to experiment with drugs than women. However, heavy drug use can cause more damage to young women.
  • Peer group – this can cause one into drugs in two different ways like the group of people you relate with can pressure you into taking drugs or you may choose to hung out with people who are into the same things as they are.
  • Availability – the easier it is to get drugs, the more likely you are to use them. This will also influence the type of drugs you use.
  • Family, social and environmental factors – people who live in a ‘deprived’ state, where the risk factors are high and the protective factors low, have a higher risk of using drugs. In terms of family, the important factor is how happy and stable your family life is, rather than whether you have two parents or not.

Finally dear reader drugs are not good for your health or anyone for that matter doctor Akoury the chief executive of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center founded this facility to help people with addiction related problem, if you are one she will be of great help and care for you in the most natural way to have your life back. Call on her and get the best because she will focus on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE.

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Drug abuse in the Military Forces

July 15, 2014

Drug abuse in the military forces – What is not known to the public

These are our men and women entrusted with securing our boarders. we have a duty to protect them from drug addiction for them to protect us effectively.

When defining drug addiction you will probably include in your definition the fact that addiction does not discriminate on personality or status or otherwise, this is very true and practical. The effects of drug abuse in our military forces has not been a topic of discussion the public for a very long time but his does not mean that the men and women in uniform do not suffer from the scourge of drug addiction. It may be true that the rate of illicit drug abuse may be lower among the military personnel compared to the civilians, but studies reveals that excessive use of alcohol and cigarette smoking are more dominant with the military forces compared to the civilian.

The kind of life lived in the confinement of barracks is that of forced respect to the superiors. It is forced because in most cases the rules require the officers to give a “yes sir” response irrespective of whether this is the correct response to be given. We all know that respect is earned and never forced on anyone. Again this trend normally causes stress to the officers who have no say whenever they are being deployed during wartime. Zero-tolerance policies and stigma pose difficulties in detecting and treating substance use problems in military personnel this is also compounded by lack of confidentiality which discourages many who may require treatment from pursuing it.

Those with multiple deployments and combat exposure are at greatest risk of developing substance use problems. They are more apt to engage in new-onset heavy weekly drinking and binge drinking, to suffer alcohol- and other drug-related problems, and to have greater prescribed use of behavioral health medications. They are also more likely to start smoking or relapse to smoking.

Illegal and Prescription Drugs

The question of drug abuse in the forces much as it is real it has not been very much rampant compared to the abuse among the civilians. The use of illicit drugs has been very minimal mainly because of the strict adherence to the zero tolerance rule for drug use among the department of Defense (DoD) this is according to the studies conducted by DoD. This decrease has been on the decline since this rule was first introduced about two decades ago. This zero tolerance policy is at the moment being applied without notice to the soldiers by running frequent tests on the soldiers. The consequences of testing positive to any illicit substance are very stern and the soldiers found positive can be unceremoniously be dismissed from the force besides being prosecuted in the court of law.

It is also interesting to note that despite efforts made to contain the use of illegal substances in the forces the same has not been properly done to the abuse of prescription drugs which statistics has revealed to be on the increase and is being abused almost on a willing basis and in relation to the civilian population. The same report of DoD indicated that misuse of prescription drugs in the forces went up progressively from just 2% in the year 2002 to 11% in 2008 that is a hooping 9% increase with opioid pain medications being misused the most by the service members.

This great misuse is attributed to the fact that these drugs are easily available and are commonly prescribed to them from time to time for pain relieving reasons. The urge to using the pain relieving prescription drugs is necessitated by the fact that service men normally attain injuries in the line of duty and are consistently straining as a result of bearing the burden of carrying heavy equipment during multiple deployments rendering them to have consistent body aches.

Drinking and Smoking

The men and women in uniform are also rooted in the use of alcohol and cigarette smoking as compared to the civilian population. Studies established that close to half of active duty service members (that is about 47%) reported binge drinking. This behavior is common especially with those service men and women with high combat exposer.

Suicides and Substance Use

Suicide rates in the military were traditionally lower than among civilians in the same age range, but in 2004 the suicide rate in the U.S. Army began to climb, surpassing the civilian rate in 2008. Substance use is involved in many of these suicides. The 2010 report of the Army Suicide Prevention Task Force found that 29 percent of active duty Army suicides from fiscal year (FY) 2005 to FY 2009 involved alcohol or drug use; and in 2009, prescription drugs were involved in almost one third of them.

Addressing the Problem

There can never be a problem without a solution. From our discussion it is evident that drugs abuse is alive and kicking within the forces. Finding solutions must be prioritized to keep our states safe because we all know what addiction can do to our lives and especially if the victim is one entrusted with the protection of lives of many defenseless citizens. Therefore it is important that:

  • The authorities must ensure that proper investigations is done and adopt increasing the use of evidence-based prevention and treatment interventions and expanding access to care.
  • There is need to broadening insurance coverage to include effective outpatient treatments and better equipping healthcare providers to recognize and screen for substance use problems so they can refer patients to appropriate, evidence-based treatment when needed.
  • It is also necessary that measures be taken towards limiting access to alcohol on bases.
  • It is also important that in addressing substance use in the military there is need to ensure patient/individuals confidentiality and shifting a cultural climate in which drug problems are stigmatized and evoke fear in people suffering from them.
  • Proper controls must be put in place limiting the duration of prescriptions for opioid pain relievers to 6 months and having a pharmacist monitor soldier’s medications when multiple prescriptions are being used

Finally doing all these are very necessary however it must be known that substance abuse is a medical condition which needs medical solution. Seeking the services of an experience medical doctor is very important. A visit at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center a medical facility founded by Doctor Akoury is the best place you can be when addiction knock your door. At this facility doctor Akoury together with her experience team of experts will not help your condition get better but they will also focus on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE. This is the place you need to be for ant addiction related problem and you will have your life back in and with the real addiction professionals.

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