Addiction: Smoking Cigarettes Keeps The Addiction Process Alive
Tobacco is an addictive mood altering substance and for alcoholics and drug addicts in recovery, it is a no-no.Studies have shown that smokers of cigarettes relapse back into drug and/or alcohol at a much, much higher rate than non-smokers.
When people are addicted, they have a compulsive need to seek out and use a substance, even when they understand the harm it can cause. Tobacco products—cigarettes, cigars or pipes, and smokeless tobacco—all can lead to addiction. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, and most people that do it want to quit. In fact, nearly 35 million people make a serious attempt to quit each year. Unfortunately, most who try to quit on their own relapse—often within a week.
Is Nicotine Addictive?
Yes. It is actually the nicotine in tobacco that is addictive. Each cigarette contains about 10 milligrams of nicotine. Because the smoker inhales only some of the smoke from a [...]
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Effects of Alcoholism on Children
Alcoholism has so many negative consequences for everyone that comes in contact with it, that it has ruined many people’s lives. Alcoholics themselves suffer from health problems such as liver disease and mental health issues. Loss of job, friends, and family create an emotional strain on the alcoholic. Financial problems may also be present.
Alcoholism also has profound effect on the family of the alcoholic, particularly the children. These little victims often go unnoticed or dismissed because they are young and “should be able to bounce back”. But studies show that the effects of a parent that is an alcoholic are often long-lasting, affecting even the adult life of the child.
Consequences for Children of Alcoholics
Depending on the age of the child of an alcoholic, there may be different problems that occur. Younger children may become confused about their home life and the role their parents and older siblings begin to assume [...]
Addiction: What In The World Is A Biopsychosocial Disease?
One of the fascinating things about studying addiction is that nobody can agree on a definition.
The biopsychosocial model of looking at addiction is an attempt to broaden the older, traditional view of addiction as strictly a medical problem. It was thought that by forcing people to look at it in a multidimensional aspect accuracy of diagnosis and treatment could be improved.
The medical people had their spin on it, the 12-step people had their definition, and neurobiological scientists are starting to discover new features. A more comprehensive way of looking at things is the biopsychosocial model of addiction. What exactly is that?
Well, the clue is in the name. It is an attempt to describe the complexity of the interaction of biological, psychological, and social features of addiction. They are basically saying they each component is insufficient unto its own to explain addiction.
Drug Abuse Recovery – 4 Common Myths Debunked
Most people who have no direct connection with using drugs find it very difficult to understand the illness of addiction and the process of drug abuse recovery. And, to make matters worse, there are some common generalized myths about drug addiction and drug use that have become firmly rooted in society. In this article we will take a look at some common myths with the object of dispelling them.
1. The person using the drugs is bad and makes a choice for that lifestyle.
The choice to initially experiment with the drugs is definitely within the user. But then certain factors assert themselves that are beyond the control of the drug addicted person, such as genetic factors. At some point in using drugs they “crossed the line” into addiction. At that point they have lost the ability to control their use of drugs, and the phenomenon of obsession and compulsion to [...]
Protecting Our Borders
Everyone seems to have their own theory about how to improve our country’s border security. Maybe the ones to ask are the residents living in border towns that live and experience the effects of illegal entrants and drug smugglers everyday.
Most of us in areas far removed from the Mexican border know our country has had a hard time regulating who gets across the border and who is kept out. Illegal entrants, illegal drugs, and drug dealers are constantly finding their way into the U.S. But beyond these basic facts, we may actually know little of the everyday lives of those fighting to secure the borders, and of those living near the border zone.
Transporting Drugs across the Border
For example, in places like Nogales or Rio Rico, stories are common of encounters with people and drugs that were smuggled across the border. Residents all know about “throw away” cars, which are purchased [...]
Ignoring Populations Most at Risk When Estimating Prevalence of Drug Use Disorders:
The July 12 CESAR FAX (vol. 19, issue 26) of CSAT reports on a letter to editor of Am J Psych 167(4):473-475, 2010). The authors, William Compton and colleagues, observe that “High rates of DSM-IV substance use disorders among inmates combined with a large inmate population mean that many persons with alcohol and drug use disorders are missed by major US national general population surveys.” Hardly anything surprising in that observation – except the fact that this deeply flawed process for making estimates persists. Furthermore, surveys based on “household sampling” miss as well the very sizable population of Americans who are homeless – whose numbers in the US on any given night are estimated at “anywhere from 700,000 to 2 million” (attributed to National Law Center on Homelessness and poverty). When it comes to substance use/misuse, one has to wonder about the relevance [...]
Methadone Possession Results in 40 Year Sentence:
In a nutshell: a man is stopped for a traffic violation, consents (!) to have his car searched. Is found to have a baggie and a scale with trace amounts of amphetamine/cocaine – and also a bottle with “three wafers of methadone” said to weight 5.14 grams (yes, grams). The “wafers” were in a bottle with a label indicating they had been prescribed for an acquaintance – the named acquaintance testified she dropped the medication in defendant’s car and forgot to take it with her when she left; this is same story defendant told. Appeal based (as far as I can tell) entirely on the admissability of the trace amts amphetamine/cocaine to indicate to jury defendant’s “character” and likelihood that the methadone “contraband” was there knowingly and with criminal intent. Conviction and resulting sentence are for the methadone possession – [...]
Swiss Parliamentarian Wants Drug Legalization – Everywhere:
(Tages Anzeiger, Switzerland, 12 Aug): According to Dick Marty prohibition has been a total failure and “… has lead to high prices and big profits for the drug mafia, without lessening availability.” Marty, who is known for having exposed the secret CIA prison camps, was involved with the drug war as prosecutor for 15 years. He explained his new orientation by noting it was always the small-time dealers that were prosecuted – and that it’s never been easier to obtain illicit drugs.
Marty wants to see the money now spent on enforcement to be used for prevention instead, and have drug use controlled in future through taxation as in the case of alcohol and tobacco. However, he acknowledged skepticism regarding his own proposal, saying legalization could only be achieved on an international basis and that this probably would not be achieved during his lifetime. On the [...]
Alcoholism And Drug Addiction Recovery – A Quick And Easy Motivation Tool
The fancy psychological term for this quick and easy motivation tool for helping people to help themselves with alcoholism and drug addiction recovery is called decisional balancing. It may sound complex, but it is really very simple.
Decisional balancing simply means weighing the costs and the benefits of using or drinking. The object of this quick exercise is to list the pros and cons, the pluses and minuses of using or continuing to use alcohol and drugs.
Simply sit down with a piece of paper and pen and draw a line down the center of the paper forming two columns on the first column lists benefits or pluses of drinking and driving and the next column lists drawbacks were negative consequences of drinking or drugging.
Then just do a brain dump. Just start writing don’t worry about how important or how silly anything sounds just get it all out. We will look at [...]
Drug Testing for Horses
Performance enhancing drugs are not just for humans anymore, apparently. Two horses at a local fair in Connecticut tested positive for anabolic steroids this summer. These steroids, which are used to increase muscle mass and condition the body, were detected during random tests on the fair’s horses. The drug tests are being done in more and more locations throughout the country, as fair officials want to ensure horses are not mistreated, and also that the competitions are honest. In the case of the two Connecticut horses, owners and horses have been banned from future contests for one year.
Kentucky Officials Make New Policy
Other horse events are cracking down even more with drug testing and penalties. Officials of Kentucky racing have recently set up new regulations for this year’s Breeders’ Cup World Championships at Churchill Downs. The new rules would allow any horse that is going to compete, including those from out-of-state, [...]