Addiction to drugs
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Many people have a habit of medication without medical advice, which pose serious problems, because they usually do not have enough knowledge to know if you need to take a particular medicine or another. The self-medication can cause poisoning , side effects unwanted and causes at the same time decrease the effectiveness of antibiotics in the person taking them. But there is a problem no less important and is increasingly common: the pharmacological dependence.
And is that just as with drugs and alcohol, some medications may be habit physical and psychological in whom the decision. In fact, the drug is recognized as an addiction, and as such, can be very harmful to the health of the sufferer. This dependence is born continuous intake of medicines , in order to get your physical, mental. Furthermore, this practice causes continued failure to take an upset in the person.
Keep in mind that some drugs are more addictive than others and some people are more likely to fall into this type of adicición. The medicines we create more dependency on the patient are the psychotropic drugs used for treating disorders of anxiety, depression or stress states , among other disorders. If you are stopped after periods that have been used on a regular basis tend to create significant withdrawal syndromes.
In particular, it is common for people who take without medical supervision tranquilizers and sleeping pills . Its abuse causes physical and psychological dependence. Also, if you are stopped, leading to withdrawal that is generated, causes symptoms such as palpitations, difficulty sleeping, depression and anxiety.
Meanwhile, people who regularly take painkillers when something hurts, they can cause your body gets used to its effects, so as to reduce their benefits. This situation causes the patient enters a vicious circle, since by reducing its effects, more medicines are taken regularly.
In general, drugs addiction production by chemical composition, and because they produce relief and when they stop taking the patient can feel bad for what follows it, they are the most cause addiction.
Be especially careful with analgesics, tranquilizers, medications for insomnia, weight loss drugs and psychotropic cited, since they all tend to generate a greater or lesser extent, dependence.
On the other hand, besides the type of drug, this dependence has a psychological factor , so there are people who are more likely to suffer from this dependence. In general, people are more likely to have a drug addiction are:
- People who have a great intolerance of pain . For this reason, very often turn to drugs to avoid physical discomfort, but also psychological (fear of anything happening, depression because it is not good …)
- People very impulsive . Those who want to solve everything in a hurry without considering the possible negative consequences of their actions.
- people with depression and all those who have mood swings so very common. They are the group of people more prone to addictions of all kinds. These addictions use them as an escape from their situation.
- People with anorexia and bulimia or other eating problems otherwise. They tend to take medicine to take away the appetite, laxatives or vomiting, so they end up suffering too addicted to such drugs.
- Students and people obsessed with their body shape. To achieve its purposes (pay more, gain more muscle mass …) can abuse drugs often contain amphetamine.
