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Addictions:Addictive behavior and Addictions.Dependence on substance to such extent that using that.Substance becomes the dominant preoccupation in that individuals life.Addiction can be physical,psychological or both.Physical Addiction:In the case of physical addiction when the drug is withdrawn the addict may express withdrawal symptom in the form of diarrhea,Vomiting,convulsion etc. If the dependence is psychological the symptoms are expressed in the form of severe craving,agitation and violence.Drug and Alcohol addiction abuse has become an international problem.Misuse of Drugs and Alcohol,cause several health and social problems,which may lead to break down of families,erosion of moral values in society and especially escalated crime rate.This may lead to addictive behaviors such as Gambling,shopping and causes more social problems than the psychological problems.Drug Addicted:Some people having difficulty in dealing with day to day anxiety and stress may find that certain substances may help them tackle these situation and help them to control their symptoms thus allowing them to be more effective at socializing children who grow up where drugs and alcohol are easily and widely available are at more risk to develop addictive problems of behavior. Large substances of illicit Drugs are available.Amphetamines,Ecstasy,Crack and Cocaine are widely used stimulants.These Drugs stimulate nervous system and intense of feeling of strength and enargy.Use of the substances can make a person active with out sleep for a long time.However they can cause anxiety and paranoia. Continuous use results in exhaustion and possible of long term psychological damage.Some people believe that crack and cocaine are social Drugs with no potential danger of addiction,But both are extremely addictive.The craving for cocaine is almost impossible to control and it is these cravings which lead to destructive behavior eventually. Drugs like heroin,cannabis(marijuana)and Anesthesia have a mo...

Bipolar Disorders are medically known as depressive disorders.Depression disorders affect the persons brain functions.Depression disorders are widely prevalent in the human population in U.s alone one out of 7 people is affected by Bipolar disorder.Bipolar disorder has several synonymous:Manic depression,manic depressive illness,bipolar mood disorder,bipolar affective disorder,manic depressive disorder etc..!Bipolar disorder is classified mainly into four different types:Bipolar,Bipolar 2,Cyclothymic disorder,and unspecific disorder.Bipolar disorders are classified into these four categories because symptoms of bipolar disorders are expressed differently in different persons.This categorization helps the doctor to choose the type of treatment to be adopted for a particular condition.Symptoms:The primary symptoms are unpredictable mood swings.Bipolar disorders can be very complex.Symptoms are variable and unpredictable.The illness has two strongly contrasting phases.1.Minia and Hypominia in bipolar disorder ,2.Bipolar depression

Substance Abuse treatment facilities,especially for women with children are inadequate.There are only four centers in the whole country,according to the Addiction resource guide.Consequences of physical and mental health due to use of Drugs for women differ from those of men.Women seek Drug abuse treatment much later than men.The substance abuse first priority for single women with children is adequate provision for immediate safety and physical needs of their children and there for the substance abuse treatment is given second importance.Due to these differences the approaches to the treatment of drug use and the task of relapse prevention are different. Women who have drug abuse may also have mental illness.More than one third of women drug abusers have major depressive episodes and about 45% have at least one mental problems.Women substance abusers are more likely to be victims of domestic violence.In addiction they have higher rates of partner violence. Substance abuse is also related to increased involvement of women in the criminal justice system sales of illicit drugs and drug use have contributed to 386% raise in the female prisoners between 1980 and 1994.Women drug users often lack in parenting skills.They follow the same dysfunctional family patterns,experienced in their own childhoods.They may over react with harsh discipline or neglect their children due to mental and physical incapacity or due to apathy.What increases the success of the Program:Taking care of the families basic needs such as food ,shelter and safety is the first step.Only after meeting the basic needs mother can try to focus her attention towards their addiction during or after the program.A single Erises in any area may lead to relapse or drop out of treatment.Many women who enter treatment or motivated out of conceive about their parenting skills and how the children are affected due to their addiction.Therefore offering effective parenting programs during out patient or inpatient ...

Addiction:When we are addicted to something like ,Alcohol,Drugs,Smoking etc we are in the stage we are not aware of our psychological problems.Addicts tend to be Dishonest with themselves and to the people around them.Eventually they loose the clarity of seeing things as they are and try to interpret the situations and people around them with preconceived ideas and obsessions which leads to wrong judgements and thus become failures professionally and personally. Here are some good article on Honesty and Dishonesty:Honesty is the value of speaking truth and creating trust in minds of others. This includes all varieties of communication, both verbal and non-verbal. Honesty implies a lack of deceit. A statement can be strictly true and still be dishonest if the intention of the statement is to deceive its audience. Similarly, a falsehood can be spoken honestly if the speaker actually believes it to be true.Honesty can be displayed to others, and to oneself (see: self-deception).Honesty is typically considered virtuous behavior, and has strong positive connotations in most situations. A principal reason for this may be that honesty simplifies communication, in that honest statements can be trusted at face value, not necessarily as true, but as genuinely believed. Additionally, honesty helps to form bonds of trust in human relationships.Conversely, dishonesty can be defined simply as behavior that is performed with intent to deceive. fraud, and plagiarism are all examples of this sort of behavior. Other examples can be doing one thing and telling the other, as if you are hiding something.While there are a great many moral systems, generally speaking, honesty is considered moral and dishonesty is considered immoral. There are several exceptions, such as hedonism, which values honesty only insofar as it improves ones own sense of pleasure, and moral nihilism, which denies the existence of objective morality outright. Additionally, even in moral systems which approve in ...

A person who is addicted chooses to be an alcoholic because of circumstances or also sometimes for adventure. Though,initially he may think that he can control himself, many a times it so happens that he wont be conscious enough to be aware that he has into the trap of addiction.In this state of unconsciousness he cannot even accept that he is addicted.Addiction to alcohol creates a falls image of the person.If the person has many suppressed feelings he may express them when he consumes Alcohol,thus he is led to think he is powerful and happy for the time being.Thus it effects the psychology of the person in a negative way.He lives in an illusion.As soon as he comes out of the effect of Alcohol again he suffers to face himself with all those feeling which surface.When this happens Anxiety increases as he cannot face himself in a conscious state.He feels cheated and lonely which leads him unconsciously to repeat the same process of taking Alcohol.The anxiety in him makes him loose the capability to see the things or situations around him as they are.He cannot take the right decisions at the right time.This leads to friction in inter-personal relationships and relationships at the work place.As this cycle goes on and on,he unable to take control of things gets into a state of depression where he feels pity and sympathetic about himself which is a very dangerous state of mind.He looses interest in everything and unknowingly develops hatred towords himself and others around him.He would feel worthless which will ultimately lead to laziness wherein his creativity is lost.He starts blaming everyone around him for his failures and tries to escape from every situation.Even if anyone wants to help him he would not be in a situation to take the help.With all the Anxiety and his negative psychological patterns he goes into depression but,if he be handled with love and understanding he can be helped.The majority of the help can be done with the help of his parents,siblings a...

There is so much of information available about drug addiction and alcoholism.Very little information available about addiction and abuse of prescription drugs.Addiction to prescription drugs and withdrawal from them can be equally or even more dangerous than alcoholism and normal drug abuse.There are mainly two types of prescription drugs to which people can get addicted.Pain killers or Opiods and tranquilizers or Benzodiazepine which are prescribed for anxiety management.These drugs can be prescribed for short term or long term depending upon the acute or chronic nature of the problem.