Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
Max Ehrmann
Addiction is the search for emotional satisfaction—for a sense of security, a sense of being loved, even a sense of control over life. But the gratification is temporary and illusory, and the behavior results instead in greater self-disgust, reduced psychological security, and poorer coping ability. That’s what all addictions have in common.
ALCOHOLISM – most common in the world of addiction, which is a chronic disease fatal.
It is characterized by:
- Craving,
- Loss of control over the quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption,
- Withdrawal symptoms after stopping alcohol
- Increased tolerance to alcohol so that they must drink more to achieve the same effect
- Continued alcohol abuse despite causing alcohol-related problems
Alcoholism has serious health and social consequences:
- Neurological and psychiatric disorders
- Heart disease
- Diseases of the liver, pancreas and stomach
- Loss of control over their lives
- Breaking of family ties, aggression Website
- Conflict with the law
DRUG ADDICTION - that drug addiction is characterized by:
- Compulsive drug seeking and use that to change mental state. Depending on the drug are euphoria, tranquillizers, hallucinogens, stimulants.
- Loss of control over the amount and frequency of drug use,
- Abstinence syndrome in a situation of withdrawal
- Drug hunger, which can lead to uncontrolled conduct the required dose ingestion
- Increased tolerance.
The effects of long-term drug abuse is wasting, psychophysical changes, family problems, social and legal, and even death.
PRESCRIPTIONS DRUG ABUSE - strong physiological and psychological dependence on drugs.
It is characterized by:
- Forced to receive increasing doses of drugs that cause a change in mental and physical,
- Anxiety or panic response when running low enough the amount of drug
- Use of several types of drugs simultaneously or strengthening the effect of alcohol
- Withdrawal symptoms, such a
- Increased anxiety, anxiety
- Memory problems
- Sleep disorders
- Loss of appetite
- Convulsions
- Flu-like symptoms
- Emotional lability
- Psychotic symptoms
Most drugs are addictive; tranquillizers, sleeping pills, painkillers, hormones, doping