Drug addiction – Physical drug addiction

Drug addiction has an effect on the body, mind and the spirit. The human body is like any living organism. It is a piece of matter composed of various chemicals and tissues designed to operate in a certain fashion. Most people will agree that how a person feels physically has a direct effect how a person feels emotionally. Drug addiction a person physically by depleting the needed supply of nutrients the body uses and a variety of other issues.

Drugs are like poisons, if you take too much of drug, even alcohol you can overdose and die. If a person was to take a small amount of strychnine, known poison, you would actually get high. Of course taking too much of it will kill you and this amount is not known because there are a variety of factors that influence this reaction. Body size, weight, health, how much food you have in your stomach etc. Believe it or not some heroin dealers mix their heroin with strychnine to make more money. Of course this is not recommended but is stated to prove a point about drug addiction.    

Your body recognizes any foreign substance not used as food, like nutrients, vitamins minerals etc, as a poison and reacts to it accordingly. In the process of handling the poison, your body burns up an excessive amount of nutrients, raises body temperature and causes dehydration. When someone is involved with drug addiction they have poor eating habits and don’t care of their body which adds to the problem even further.  

Also, in the process of the body ridding itself of these toxins they have to be processed out through the liver and kidneys which then changes the drugs or alcohol into a metabolite which is supposed to be pushed out of the body by going to the bathroom or sweating. The bad part is these metabolites are fat bonding and stick in the body for years. This is a problem in trying to handle drug addiction because every time the person raises their heart rate in moments of stress or exercise, a certain amount of fat is burned up and the toxins are then released back in the system causing a drug craving. In drug addiction this is the biggest reason someone relapses, since these drug or alcohol particles then travel to the brain and set off an additional process within the brain chemistry.

Drug Addiction and Emotional Problems.

 Whether talking about any drug addiction: alcohol addiction, cocaine addiction, methamphetamine addiction, or even heroin addiction, the pattern is the same:
The person taking drugs is attempting to handle some kind of problem or escape some physical or emotional pain by taking drugs. This problem could be a physical or emotional pain, or the discomfort of boredom, peer pressure, lack of social skills. Temporarily the person’s problems are solved by the drugs or alcohol and so continue to abuse them. Eventually the drugs become the problem and drug addiction sets in.  

With continued use of the drug, and a heavier drug addiction, the body and brains ability to produce certain chemicals is diminished because these chemicals are replaced by the drug. The body uses the drug as a substitute for its own natural chemicals. Deprived of it’s own resources (and the ability to create them) the body perceives that it needs the drug to function and demands the drug, through physical cravings.

The cravings make drug addiction more intense and cause the person to want more drugs, actually needing drugs to be able to function at all. Drug cravings become so severe that the addict will do almost anything (in many cases, abandoning all previous moral teachings) to get more of the drug. People addicted to drugs and alcohol find themselves doing things they would never have dreamed of doing.

The drug addict or alcoholic commits crimes against family, friends, and themselves to satisfy these unrelenting cravings. These misdeeds include lying, stealing, cheating, anything to get the drugs to satisfy the drug cravings. Because of these misdeeds, the drug or alcohol addict is now entrapped in full blown drug addiction. All of these actions against the family further drive the person into more demoralizing and degrading behavior and actually acts as a way to justify the drug addiction.

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When you or your loved one is struggling with drug addiction and you need of help looking for the right drug addiction treatment center, it is important to consider all the facets of drug addiction or substance abuse and realize there drug rehab programs out there that do not necessarily have the best interest of you or you’re loved at heart.

Most drug addiction treatment centers offer one of four types of drug or alcohol rehabilitation programs that vary in cost, length and most importantly success.

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