Archive for February, 2010

Impact Of Drug

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Impact Of DrugThe impact of drug abuse which will be felt first by yourself. Among these are personality will change drastically and lost his mind. Cause the nature indifferent to itself.

study spirit and work will increasingly . Being lazy, relaxed life, sometimes laugh to myself for no reason. View of norms will be lost, not even hesitate to hurt himself. (more…)

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Avoid Drugs

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Avoid Drugs
While cocaine comes from coca plants grown in Peru and Bolivia. Cocaine is often used to cure asthma and tuberculosis. However, now use a lot of abuse.

The types of drugs
According to its effect on the central nervous system

depressant
Depressant is a substance that serves to reduce the functional activity of the body by pressing the central nervous system. Drugs of this type can make the user feel calm and even made him fall asleep or unconscious. This medication is used to treat mental patients. (more…)

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Towards an Integrated Treatment Drug

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Treatment DrugAccording to Dr. Ignacio Basurto, a psychiatrist at the Fundación Jiménez Díaz, “the professional communities must learn to think and to detect dual form.

The second step is to treat and the best way is through the treatments on specific devices and sensitive clinical networks and integrated into the knowledge of Dual Pathology.

“Treatment approaches need to practice these devices and clinical networks with long-term objectives aimed at the clinical and social rehabilitation of sick,” said Dr. Carlos Alvarez Vara, a psychiatrist at the Drug Enforcement Agency. (more…)

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Mental illness and Substance Abuse

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Mental illness The Dual Pathology neuroscience research, which coincide in the same patient two disorders: an addictive behavior and psychological condition. A high percentage of people with anxiety, depression, schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, consume toxic substances, which make diagnosis difficult, modify the therapeutic response and worse prognosis.

The substance abuse by patients with psychiatric disorders are increasingly common. (more…)

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Alcohol, Cannabis and Schizophrenia

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Alcohol“The clinical sample of depressed patients who abuse alcohol and consume cannabis,” says this expert, who notes that nearly 75 percent of patients with schizophrenia attending acute units have some type of substance abuse, the most common are alcohol and cannabis.

It is further estimated that “20 percent of alcoholics is associated with a problem of pathological gambling or gambling addiction, and that 60 percent of gambling addicts have some other condition of abuse or drug dependence. (more…)

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What Is the Scope Of Heroin Use In the U.S.?

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

heroinAccording to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 2003-which actually may have underestimated the use of illicit opiates (heroin) – about 3.7 million people had used heroin at some point in their life, and more 119,000 of them reported having used in the month preceding the survey.

An estimated 314,000 Americans used heroin in the year preceding the survey, and the group with the largest number of users was that of those over 26 years. (more…)

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What is heroin?

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

heroinHeroin is a highly addictive illegal drug. Not only is the opiate of further abuse but also the fastest action. Heroin is processed from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the seed pod of certain varieties of poppy plants.

Typically sold as a white or brownish powder or as a black sticky substance known on the street as “rubber” or “black tar” ( “black tar heroin”). (more…)

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How Is Heroin Used?

Friday, February 19th, 2010

heroinHeroin is usually injected, sniffed / snorted, or smoked. Typically, the addict may inject up to four times a day. Intravenous injection provides the greatest intensity and causes more rapid onset of euphoria (7 to 8 seconds),

while intramuscular injection produces a relatively slow onset of euphoria (5 to 8 minutes). When heroin is sniffed or smoked, usually feel its peak effects after 10 to 15 minutes. NIDA researchers have confirmed that all forms of heroin administration are addictive. (more…)

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The Drug Alcohol

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Drug AlcoholThe drug is a legal sales consumed more often is a central nervous system depressants and effects dependent factors such as age, weight, sex, or the quantity and speed with which it is consumed.

alcohol abuse lead to alcoholism or alcohol dependence, chronic disease caused by prolonged use and ethyl alcohol in excess. alcoholism is a serious problem in many countries, which is costing personal, social and health very high. (more…)

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Treatment Of Alcoholism

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

AlcoholismAlcoholism is a problem that need special attention and should not be considered secondary to another underlying problem. there are specialist clinics for treatment and special units in general and psychiatric hospitals.

as the company is aware of the true nature of alcoholism, decreases consideration as social stigma, patients and their families under the hide and diagnosis not so late. early treatment is more and better, what it produces high recovery rates and encouraging. (more…)

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