Addictions: caused by pleasure and pain
Cerebral disease, is how addictions are currently considered, due to the inappropriate and repetitive use of drugs, these create in the individual certain addictive behaviors which modify chemistry, structure and brain functioning. These structures are altered so much to the point where addictive impulses cannot be arrested. Even if the individual presents a discontent with the object of his addiction. In addition, society to addicts to certain substances isolates them more and more, or at least that is the reality in most countries, but it is not really giving a correct approach to what should be corrected, since notWe must cure your addiction, since that is not a problematic cause, but a consequence created based on pain in its existence.
Many times we blame the substance and focus our attention on it, but the reality is that the inappropriate, repetitive and compulsive use can come because that person is simply and feels very lonely, even if it is surrounded by people, that the drug isYour way of escape, etc. (Hari, 2007).
The vast majority of people think that when consuming drugs there is some type of chemical bond or substance that creates in your body the feeling of desire and great need to consume the substance previously consumed, and although this is not entirely evil, it is notAt all true, to give an example;If a person consumes heroin 3 times a day for the next 20 days, our logic would dictate that we have been immersed in an addiction. However, in certain patients who are in the hospital when they undergo great pain or an operation, they are administered a substance called diamorphine that is simply another denomination to refer to heroin, which is constantly administered during thePatient stay at the hospital, and this is not subject to a heroin or diamorphine addiction for having exposed it for a certain amount of days.
It enters year and year, this paradigm has been imposed on us, however, it is very common for people who now visualize them as addicts, have predisposing factors, many times to different traumatic situations, many of these have some deficits in their family attachmentsEarly, causing difficulty in sustaining interpersonal links in its social environment, causing a painful emptiness, because the human being is a social being, it is part of its nature being in social media and in turn creating links, that is, it is evidentThe search for meaning of their lives in each person, a balance and clarity of objectives is required, in addition to an affectionate company. Some studies by Professor Bruce Alexander, who was one of the people who object.
Alexander (1982) places a rat that is alone in a cage, and two options are presented, drinking normal water or drug water, later it would be shown that this rat would die of overdose. This was a well -known experiment in his time, but Professor Bruce Alexander argues that the rat is alone in the cage and has nothing other than drinking water, leading him to create a park for rats.
This would be a very wide cage where several rats would be, in addition, they would be in an environment of constant fun, they had everything from colored plants, hiding places, to the best food for rats, large tunnels to run and free possibility of sexual company. In it, there were two containers with water, one normal and the other with drugs. The result of the experiment turned out that less than a quarter of rats consumed drugs, and those who consumed them were isolated rats, demonstrating that the alone and unhappy rats became addicted. (Alexander, 1982).
Addictions may or may not be accompanied by tolerance and are classified into two: psychics, constituted by psychic impulses that lead to take, whether periodically or continuously, the substance in order to avoid discomfort or that of producing pleasure and physical and physical, considered a state of adaptation, gives permission to physical disorders, are normally called withdrawal syndrome.
Addictions are not only present in substances, by facilitating everyday life, technological advances are very easy for much of the population to be subjected to an addiction when using it in an abusive way, whether these internet addictions,video games, chats, among others. These are classified as: passive, which isolate the subject, which do not allow social contacts such as watching television, and active, is the most dangerous, since it produces social isolation, creates disorders in the individual, they are basedIn sex addiction, video games, internet.
These carry consequences such as sleep deprivation, blood pressure variation. Over-activity of the sympathetic system, lower intellectual coefficient in adolescents. Social isolation, professional, family, marital, financial and impulsive behaviors.
Social networks are that they have become so popular, that they have created a high degree of dependence in each individual, and when we are connected so long, we forget the most important thing, which is the surrounding environment. It is a fact that learning to manage them can bring to us numerous benefits and can favor life to more than one. Since, although they can create a great addiction, because of how attractive they can be, it serves to disconnect from stress either caused by work or studies.
Drugs before being considered as substances that everyone tries to avoid, this was a look like a sacred object in the ancient Inca culture, was called the coca breast. They were mainly used as an incentive in works that required more physical effort and also served to calm pain, the Inca state had several hectares of coca leaf culture, although it was used by food shortage. This is another example that proves that despite a constant interaction with a substance that means being addictive, it fails to create an addiction like the one we currently know.
In the United States, Time magazine once reported that heroin consumption was "as common as mascar gum" among American soldiers, and that 20% of them acquired addiction to it based on a study published by the general psychiatry archivesHowever, 90% of addicted soldiers according to the same study were able to abandon drugs, immediately when returning to the United States. 17% needed rehabilitation, but they went from a "terrifying cage" which was the battlefield, to a better place such as the family environment, helping this feeling to leave drugs. Making it look that addiction was really a way of adaptation in being in a hostile and restricted environment.
Addictions have wrapped society due to dislocated, rich and poor causes equally, compensating their unbearable lack of culture and identity by clinging desperately to the best substitutes they can find. Addictions to drug use and thousands of other habits and activities fulfill this compensatory function very well. The company cannot control addiction until it stops the spread of dislocation that finally instigates it.
Finally, it is essential that there is a change of stereotype in the field of addiction, because the more health institutions they spend in the last two centuries to control drug addiction, alcohol and hundreds of other habits and activities, theFlood of addiction has continued to deepen and extend. A large -scale ‘war on drugs’ has also failed with annual costs estimated at billions of dollars. When we must improve the approach to which we want to end these addictions, attacking the cause and not its consequences.
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