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Necessary steps must be taken to prevent drug addiction

Posted On : Apr-09-2010 | seen (425) times | Article Word Count : 537 |

Necessary steps must be taken when you find that a close person of yours has got addicted to drugs; otherwise you might lose that person.
Drug addiction treatment is increasing at such a huge rate nowadays that drug rehab centers have become a must need in every country. Thousands of teenagers of every country get addicted to some kind of drugs every year. However, the most shocking fact is that the most number of teenage drug addicts are seen in the 1st world countries like United States. Youths are our future; and this addiction disease is destroying our future and we cannot do anything to save it. Most of the teenagers avoid the lethal drugs like cocaine or any other as they are illegal; the teenagers depend on something which more lethal, the medicinal drugs. Since these medicinal drugs cannot be banned because of their extensive use in the medical sector, people can find them easily in the pharmaceutical stores. People continue their addiction so discretely that it is almost impossible for anyone to find out, if they do not know about the symptoms.

The symptoms of drug addiction are easily noticeable; some common effects that you can see are,

1.The drug addicted person neglects his or her responsibilities at work, home, school etc because of the addiction.

2.A drug addict isolates himself from others; which cause broken relationship with friends, partners and family.

3.The drug addicts often get arrested for their behavior, stealing habits etc.

4.Certain mental and physical symptoms like nausea, restlessness, insomnia, excessive yawning, depression, muscle cramps, sweating etc show up at large extent.

5.When prescribed with any type of pharmaceutical drugs, the addicts continue the dosage at high level even after the prescribed course.

When you find these symptoms in any person, be sure about that person’s addiction. People showing these symptoms are definitely addicted to any kind of drugs. When you find any person showing these symptoms, get that person admitted in a drug rehab center as soon as possible. On prolonged usage, the drugs take total control over the addict’s mind and body and the only way to get out of such a condition is to take treatment in a drug rehabilitation center.

During the treatment process several withdrawal symptoms show up at large extent; these withdrawal symptoms are so grueling that the patients cannot tolerate them. It has also been observed that the patients run away from the rehabs and get back to their addiction life when they cannot tolerate the pain anymore. In such situations, the drug addicted patients need a lot of care and comfort. Many rehabs cannot even provide these two important things. Some world class rehabilitation centers consists of highly experienced medical staffs, who get very close to the patients during the treatment and give them mental support to fight against the painful withdrawal effects of drug addiction. The patients get restless, several other painful physical and mental effects show up and only proper care and mental support can help the patients deal with this pain.

If you find out that any close person of yours has already got deeply addicted to any kind of drugs, contact a drug rehabilitation center immediately and get that person admitted in that rehab, otherwise you may not be able to save that person from death.

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Category : Health and Fitness : Medicine

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