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Drug Addiction
What is a drug addiction
There are many types of drug addictions, ranging from intense to less intense drugs. The substances in drugs usually bring about a brief change in consciousness. It makes you feel pleasant and causes problems to fade into the background for a while. That feeling is only temporary, because as soon as the drugs wear off, certain feelings return just as quickly. Guilt can play an important role in your addiction. You may not want to use anymore, but mental and sometimes physical dependence make it difficult for you to stop using drugs for a long time. In that case, we speak of drug addiction.
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Quitting drugs
If you are dealing with drug addiction, quitting drugs is not easy. With long-term use, you have often become so dependent on drugs that you feel you cannot live without them. Therefore, it is important to admit that you have lost control and seek help to quit drugs. In some cases, you can slowly wean yourself off drugs. With certain types of drugs or when you have a severe drug addiction, it is better to do this with counseling.
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Getting off drugs
Have you decided you want to go off drugs? If you have used drugs for a long time, it is important to go off slowly. Stopping all at once is often not recommended and can be dangerous for your body. In most cases, professional help is needed to kick the habit. Often a drug addiction does not come alone either and your addiction is maintained by other symptoms and behavior patterns. At U-center, we help you kick drugs and treat underlying problems at the same time.
Symptoms of drug addiction
How drug addiction manifests itself can vary from person to person
Recognizing a drug addiction
Drug use produces mental effects and activates the reward center in the brain. Based on these effects, drugs are classified into three categories: narcotics, stimulants and mind-altering (hallucinogenic) drugs. Depending on the type of drug, mental and possibly physical withdrawal symptoms occur with withdrawal. Drug addiction can be very persistent and withdrawal from drugs is often not an easy task. The effects and characteristics of drug addiction depend very much on the type of drugs you use. Below are the most common characteristics.
– Loss of sense of reality
– Neglect
– Insulation
– Social disruption
– Impairment of thinking capacity
Weed addiction
The use of marijuana or cannabis is mostly accepted and often used as a means of relaxation. In some cases, use can cross over into addiction. A cannabis addiction can have unpleasant consequences, such as feelings of depression, panic, anxiety and, in severe cases, excessive use can lead to psychosis. Do you think you are suffering from a drug addiction? If so, it is important to seek help and reduce or completely stop your use.
Cocaine addiction
Cocaine or coke is a drug that can make you feel euphoric in a short period of time. When you use coke you often feel extremely confident and euphoric. Therefore, it is sometimes used at parties or to perform better at work. This drug is also often used as a sex stimulant. Instead, when cocaine wears off, you often get a dip and feel gloomy and depressed. The temptation to use more and more often is therefore great, which can cause you to develop a cocaine addiction. In the short term, coke has great influence in your mood, and in the long term, cocaine has great effects on your physical and psychological health.
Addicted to speed
Speed (amphetamine) is often used as a "pep drug," which is why it is nicknamed "pep. This drug is enormously stimulating and gives you lots of energy. Like cocaine, speed boosts mood and is usually swallowed and sometimes snorted, smoked or injected. Use of speed often starts during parties to keep going longer, but it is also used at home. Using speed once does not mean an immediate addiction to speed, but the risk of addiction is very real. The chemical action of amphetamine can cause you to develop a mental dependence, making you feel like you can't function without speed.
Drug withdrawal symptoms
– Gloom or depression
– Sweating and fever
– Aggression
– Heart palpitations
– Headache
– Fatigue
– Insomnia
– Reduced
– concentration ability
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