Healthy Avondale News

Every day of every year, families in every state grapple with the drug problems of one or more of their members. Distraught parents, children or siblings appeal to the drug or alcohol user to please cease their excessive substance abuse without understanding that when substance abuse has progressed to addiction, most addicts need rehabilitation before they can quit. That is true no matter how much they promise they will end their drug or alcohol use. When a person is addicted, the addiction controls them rather than their controlling the addiction.

The slide into addiction very often has a consistent pattern, person to person. Problems at work, problems paying bills, unexplained loss of money; if the person has taken to dealing drugs to support their habit, unexplained cash. Missed family events, falling grades in school, secretive or accusative behavior are all common symptoms of the descent into addiction.

But these events are mild in comparison to what lies ahead when a person completes his or her full descent into addiction.

Drug or alcohol addiction commonly results in manipulative, abusive or criminal behavior; suicide; homelessness; overdoses leading to hospitalization or death. Addiction is frequently accompanied by serious or incurable health conditions: HIV, Hepatitis C, herpes, heart disorders, loss of teeth, abscesses, staph infections, liver disease and much more. Then there’s the constant threat of incarceration. The average sentence for drug felonies in 2004 was 51 months.

Oklahoma – During the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, many Americans spend large amounts of money, buying gifts for their family, friends, and co-workers.  These gifts are then brought home and placed safely under the Christmas tree, or so it may seem.

While you are out shopping for Christmas gifts, so are the criminals.  Experts say that criminal activity, specifically home burglary, greatly increases during the holiday season. Many of these individuals who are burglarizing homes use the gifts to fuel their drug addiction.

“Many burglaries are related to heroin or drug use,” Caulfield Police Sen-Sgt Mathieson said. “Quite often if heroin comes in, with that comes a need to commit crime to pay for it.”

Narconon, a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation program offer tips to homeowners to keep their homes safe from crime during the holidays. These include making it look like someone is still home when you leave the house, ensuring all doors and windows are locked and even making sure that your security system is enabled at all times when you leave the house. For those who don’t have a security system, it can be a good idea to invest in something like this if you live in an area susceptible to burglaries.

Alcohol Addiction in a Nutshell

The condition is defined as the habitual intoxication or prolonged, excessive consumption of alcoholic drinks which inevitably leads to health repercussions. It is also said that when it is attempted to be treated through abrupt deprivation, the results may be of severe withdrawal symptoms.

This form of addiction is said to develop over time. When an individual drinks often, he or she may expect an addiction to alcohol to be underway. There are different reasons behind this. While some people start drinking because of peer pressure, there are also some who begin this habit because they see it as a form of coping mechanism. In such cases, the individual who seems unable to control his or her strong feelings resort to excessive alcohol consumption to help them deal with reality.

As previously mentioned, alcohol addiction can be traced back to history. Typical cases of such have several common features. These primarily revolve around physical alcohol dependence. The tern itself is descriptive of an individual who finds it difficult to say no to alcohol. Aside from this, physical alcohol dependence also makes an individual obtain an insatiable craving for alcoholic beverages. It is in this condition that drinking alcohol is seen as an obsession.