Nearly every drug dependent individual expects in the beginning that they can quit abusing various substances without help, and most attempt to quit on their own without drug and/or alcohol treatment. Most of those attempts lead in failure to achieve long-term abstinence from drugs. Investigations have shown that long-term substance abuse results in significant changes in brain function that remain long after the individual stops using drugs. Those drug induced changes in brain function most likely will develop several behavioral consequences, including the obsession to abuse drugs despite the consequences, which is the defining property of drug addiction.
Drug Rehab is for people who are abusing or have become dependent on any mood altering substance. Unity Recovery Center in Florida is capable of treating all kinds of substance addictions including heroin addiction, cocaine addiction, methamphetamine addiction (crystal meth), prescription benzodiazepines addiction (such as Xanax and Ativan), huffing (gas, butane, solvents, and nitrous), prescription medication addiction (such as Vicodin, Percocet, OxyContin, Oxymorphone, and RoxyCodone), and marijuana addiction. Through individualized drug treatment planning, educational and therapy process groups, individual and family therapy, each patient's drug treatment is designed to maximize their recovery potential.
One of the
difficulties
in
recognizing
alcoholism
as a disease
is it just
plain
doesn't seem
like one. It
doesn't
look, sound,
smell and it
certainly
doesn't act
like a
disease. To
make matters
worse,
generally it
denies it
exists and
resists
treatment.
Alcoholism
has been
recognized
for many
years by
professional
medical
organizations
as a
primary,
chronic,
progressive
and
sometimes
fatal
disease. The
National
Council on
Alcoholism
and Drug
Dependence
offers a
detailed and
complete
definition
of
alcoholism,
but probably
the most
simple way
to describe
it is "a
mental
obsession
that causes
a physical
compulsion
to drink."
Mental
obsession?
Did you ever
wake up in
the morning
with a song
playing over
and over in
your head?
It might
have been a
commercial
jingle you
heard on
television,
or a song
from the
radio, but
it kept
playing ...
and playing
and playing.
Mental
Obsession
Remember
what that
was like? No
matter what
you did,
that silly
tune kept on
playing. You
could try to
whistle or
sing another
song or turn
on the radio
and listen
to another
tune, but
the one in
your head
just kept on
playing.
Think about
it. There
was
something
going on in
your mind
that you
didn't put
there and,
no matter
how hard you
tried,
couldn't get
out!
That is an
example of a
simple
mental
obsession --
a thought
process over
which you
have no
control.
Such is the
nature of
the disease
of
alcoholism.
When the
drinking
"song"
starts
playing in
the mind of
an
alcoholic,
he is
powerless.
He didn't
put the song
there and
the only way
to get it to
stop is to
take another
drink.
