Causes of addiction, treatment and prevention. Day Against Drug Abuse

Drug addiction as a social problem has become widespread around the world. Especially it affects teenagers and people with weak psychological health. The causes of drug addiction are quite diverse, because of which the bait depended even on those people who never imagined such an event in their life.

Substances that cause dependence, are also relevant because many criminal structures earn huge sums of money on them, which according to official figures are considered in billions of US dollars. We must try not to fall for this bait, to live a full-fledged happy life.

Causes of the spread of drug addiction

There is no such thing that a person spontaneously became a drug addict. Various factors contribute to this. The causes of drug addiction are both physiological and psychological. Both are extremely dangerous, they are hard to resist. A narcologist physician knows how to deal with addiction, but people often quite simply neglect a campaign against him.

In order not to worry about your health, it is easier to prevent the development of drug addiction. To do this, you need to know the factors and causes that cause it, and fight them in every possible way.

Psychological factors

Psychological causes of drug addiction doctors are also called social, because they are associated with society and its pressure on a person. So, the factors that can trigger the emergence of dependence:

• Family problems. This is the case when parents either do not pay attention to their child at all, because of what he is looking for consolation in drugs, or he is overly cared for, then the child begins to rebel, seeking an exit in the wrong and illegal actions. In addition, lack of awareness of the dangers of alcohol and drugs can also lead to a person becoming addicted by accident without expecting it.
• Banal curiosity. This is most often the causes of adolescent drug addiction. When a child tries drugs, he believes that from one such time nothing will happen.
• If a person is a creative person, he can resort to using drugs to inspire. He usually does not think about the consequences.
• When teenagers are dominated by youthful maximalism and a sense of rebellion, they begin to challenge society. The manifestation of this can be drug use.

• Irresponsible people may not understand the consequences of their actions, including those related to drug addiction and their own health. Such a character trait in itself needs to be eradicated.
• When a person has an unstable psyche, he is prone to internal conflicts. Instead of their successful solution, he is looking for an outlet in narcotic substances.
• A constant sense of anxiety, self-doubt, fear and a sense of loneliness can also lead to drug use.
• If a person is in a bad company, then his environment can lead to the fact that he will begin to have problems with dependence.

But not only these factors can affect the human psyche.

Psychological factors of the state level

The causes of drug use may be hidden at the state level. No matter how it may sound, the following factors can lead a person into despair:

• Wrong setting of the values of modern society.
• Strong psychological influence of the West.
• Daily propaganda of immoral acts.
• Lack of organizations where a child or teenager could find friends of interest.
• Lack of propaganda for a healthy lifestyle.

Such problems should be solved at the state level, but if this does not happen, parents should try to maximally satisfy the curiosity of the child, instill in him a certain value system.

Physiological factors

Some scientists argue that the main causes of drug addiction are not in psychology, but in human physiology. With violations in the body producing neurotransmitters in a person begins pathological anxiety, depression, obsessive states. The internal conflict, which eventually forms, is solved with the help of narcotic substances.

Heroin addicts claim that heroin gives them a sense of calm and comfort, about which they so dreamed. This is connected with neurotransmitters. Drug replaces people with these substances, giving an imaginary feeling of calm and security.

But the state of bliss after a while passes, replaced by a sense of inferiority. The drug can not always satisfy the needs. When the body gets used to it, it becomes necessary to maintain normal life activity, but no longer brings a sense of joy. Then a person must take it to save his life. Moral problems go to the background, and the addict only has one goal - not to die.

Problems of world-class drug addiction

Any reasons for the development of drug dependence lie in dissatisfaction with life. When a person tries to change something and gets hung up on this, and he does not get it, he starts looking for another, easier way to solve his problems. Over time, he comes to the realization that drugs can cope with any setbacks.

In fact, problems with the help of alcohol or psychotropic substances are solved only by psychologically immature individuals. Unfortunately, young people with fully formed values and views on the world are very few. Therefore, the problem of drug addiction acquires such a global meaning. Drugs are a kind of way to solve adult problems with the help of children's methods. But getting rid of the dependency that arises as a result is very difficult.

International Day Against Drug Abuse

Since 1986, June 26 is considered the International Day against Drug Abuse. By this date in different countries, statesmen are preparing special programs that call for the abandonment of narcotic substances. Unfortunately, these measures have not yet been successful, as the problem continues to gain momentum and reach more and more people from all over the world. Day of struggle against a narcotism is only one of ways of the decision of the given problem. In fact, anti-addiction programs are being developed every day for many years, but so far none of them has produced a positive result.

Affect this problem can only people themselves. Read the right literature, educate children in accordance with all moral values, try to avoid questionable companies and proposals. In a word, everyone should think about their situation, then drug addiction will cease to be such a global problem.

Treatment of addiction

Many people, whose relatives have encountered the problem of drug addiction, try to conduct appropriate treatment at home. Unfortunately, this event will not end successfully. Addiction is caused by both physiological and psychological reasons. From breaking you can get rid yourself, if you protect the patient from the outside world. But the psychological inclination to use drugs will remain. Therefore, it is important to carry out complex treatment. Today, there are many rehabilitation centers that offer their services for the treatment of drug dependent patients. Professional specialists work there. The doctor-narcologist will reveal the degree of dependence and will appoint appropriate measures.

Drug addiction treatment

Often relatives of drug dependent people try to remove symptoms from the patient with the help of pharmaceuticals. The fact is that pain killers and hypnotics can also contain narcotic components. Then the patient simply replaces one drug with another. Naturally, the successful treatment of addiction in this case is out of the question. This is another reason why it is better to go to a rehabilitation center.

In addition, the addict's organism can react to medications in an unexpected way. In any narcotic dispensary there is resuscitation, as the patient at any time can become ill. At home, starting treatment is extremely dangerous, you never know what it will end. Most of the heroin addicts simply died from such activities, since a layman can not create the necessary conditions to save a person from dependence.

Prevention of drug addiction

Prevention of drug addiction is an important program that is mainly carried out among schoolchildren, since this is the most vulnerable group of people. Preventive measures include talking with parents, teachers, psychologists, attending lectures, creating various clubs by interests, watching motivational films. Information, which is voiced by schoolchildren, should instil in them the values of a healthy lifestyle.

Rules of prevention

Prevention means not just formal communication with people. The information that comes before them must meet the relevant requirements:

• It must be positive, inspiring and motivating.
• If the information is negative, then it should paint the consequences of drug use in paint.
• The media should not promote the use of drugs.
• All information that reaches the public should be formed only by professional doctors.
• All information should be approved by the appropriate council, which should include narcologists, psychologists, therapists and psychotherapists.

These are measures for primary prevention of the population.

Secondary prevention of drug addiction

Secondary prevention involves identifying people who have already been addicted to drugs, and re-working with them. These measures are necessary to prevent relapse, and also to ensure that healthy people are not subjected to psychological influence dependent. Thus, drug addiction is a world-class problem. Unfortunately, today there are not enough measures to solve it. But you can avoid such a problem if you become aware of the consequences of drug dependence.