About drugs
Chemical addiction. Conception of illness
Chemical addiction is a complicated medical problem, in the basis of which lies «drug addiction» behavior as manifestation of the dependence that already exists, and not its before-nosologic period.
The first signs showing that your child began using drugs
We will give a few facts which will help you to find a possibility of occurrence of drug addiction in your child. In fact, drug addiction evolutes not for a few hours, it takes months for it, and well-timed finding of addiction signs and competent conversation will help you to convince your child not to take a drug or to be more careful in future at least.
Is it is possible to cure a drug addict?
The difficulty is in the fact that the key to convalescence is in mentality of the dependent person. If the person has realized, that he is a drug addict and he has a wish to get rid of this disease, he will gather himself up and his will for struggle against this dependence. If the wish to recover is only a tribute to admonitions of relatives or a wish to bring down "the threshold" of dependence, there cannot be any talk about recovery.
Methadone. Is it a replacement therapy?
Methadone is a synthetic effective analgetic that has narcotic properties. It is administered to be taken in or as injections to alleviate severe pain, as well as syrup to suppress attacks of coughing. In addition, methadone is used to treat heroin addiction, and as well as other opiates it falls under the law on opium. It is synthesized in a laboratory, and, thus, it is available both in liquid and in a tablet form. Now this opiate is known mainly as a heroin substituting means and is intended for the medical application.
Psychostimulants. Cocaine. Amphetamines.
We give the following information for acquaintance with the most dangerous psychostimulants. Because of insufficient knowledge on dangerous affect of these drugs on the human body, which is often covered with a romantic veil, the number of people got in dependence is enlarged.
Behavior and medical care in case of “withdrawal pain”
It may often happen that parents start realizing for the first time that their child uses drugs only when their son or daughter has an abstinent drug syndrome – withdrawal pain. What should you actually do?
