Addiction Recovery

Let’s get straight to the point. Coffee can appear to be addictive because of the withdrawal symptoms it produces. As soon as the caffeine hits your brain it tells your adrenal glands to produce adrenalin, this is where the kick comes from. Adrenalin gets you ready for action, the problem is that if you are sat at your desk, or perhaps on the couch, you don’t need to be ready for action. About 30 minutes later the caffeine wears off, the adrenalin has worn off, and you come down from this action state, leaving you feeling tired and unable to relax.So what do you do now?

Most people decide to reach for another cup of coffee to end this sluggishness and the cycle is repeated all through the day, with you going from high to low, an emotional roller coaster of a day. If this sounds familiar you are not alone, thousands of people experience this each and every day.

These symptoms follow the classic tell tale signs of drug addiction, but with caffeine there is a difference. Drugs such as cocaine and nicotine are addictive because they affect the “reward and motivation” part of the brain. Caffeine does not seem to work on these parts of the brain, and as such is not seen as being addictive.If you find yourself reaching for cup after cup of coffee, you are just relieving the symptoms it produces, but you will not be physically craving caffeine.

This is an important distinction, because those of us who just can’t seem to get through the day without our little crutch, can find it much easier to end their apparent coffee addiction. Now i am not saying that stopping drinking coffee is a simple process, it can be very difficult to just stop doing something you have perhaps been doing for years. These symptoms are very real and can cause a lot of discomfort. It has been scientifically proven that caffeine withdrawal produces headaches and irritab Read the rest of this entry »

One of the most important decisions you will make in your lifetime is selecting a drug addiction treatment for you or one of your love ones. Only few of us know about the most important drug addiction treatment center for you as they are not all the same, you want quality and trust. You will find that each drug addiction treatment program or center will have its own option, cost, effectiveness of them.

Let’s face it. One of the perennial societal problems the whole world is facing right now is drug addiction. It seems like we are losing every one of our people, youth especially, to substance abuse that continuously destroy lives, damage the future, and hurt our economy. Yet along with this dilemma is the never-ending search for the possible–and the best–form of cure or prevention to such vice. Thus, we are now currently introduced to what is known as drug treatment.

Though addiction to drugs like opium has been common since historical times it is in recent times that the problem has been exacerbated significantly. This is mainly due to the cultivation of plants yielding drugs, advancements in biochemistry and improvements in means of getting access to drugs. The introduction of purified forms of active biological agents and the synthesis of new substances like methamphetamine has made drugs more widespread. Clinically, the word addiction has been replaced by the word dependency in relation to drugs.

Various Treatments:

Treatments for alcohol abuse are quite varied in keeping with the multiple perspectives of the condition itself. Counselors approaching the condition as a medical disease will recommend different treatment processes and goals than, for instance, those approaching the condition as one of social choice. Most treatments focus on helping abusers completely discontinue their alcohol intake, as well as provid Read the rest of this entry »

Texting addicts abound and the number is increasing by the day. Since 1998, a Scandinavian therapy center has treated 60 addicts and to this day, this number may have doubled.

Asia has not been spared either. According to Telecoms Korea, 3 out of 10 Korean secondary students who own mobile phones are reported to be addicted to mobile phones. The report also indicated, a big 21% of 270 high school students carrying mobile phones replied that they feel anxious when their cell phones are not with them and 8% of them said that they feel very annoyed without mobile phones. 10% of the respondents already reported of pain in the wrist or shoulder. This is repetitive strain injury -pressing undersized keyboards of mobile phones causes poor blood circulation and pain in the shoulder.

The immediate effect of sms text addiction, termed by some as compulsive text messaging, is repetitive strain injury. This dries out the lubricating fluid between tendons of your hands, wrists and shoulders. Those demonstrating this type of addiction are also prone to depression, anxiety and sleep disorder, aside from the monetary impacts to the person and his/her family.

Many people affected by this technology addiction are still on their denial stage claiming there is no such thing as sms text addiction. In the early days of marijuana and cocaine, addiction also wasn’t recognized until people came to the realization they were addicted into it and it was already too late for them to respond rationally.

Why are people quick to look down on alcoholics or drug addicts, but then go out and spend 12 hours in Internet chatrooms? Compulsive text messaging are sending people to clinics for treating their technology addictions. And this number is rising.

The World Health Organization has described addiction as a pathological relationship with a mood-altering Read the rest of this entry »