The Anatomy of Addiction: What Science and Research Tell Us About the True Causes, Best Preventive Techniques, and Most Successful Treatments
Akikur Mohammad
Language: English
Pages: 186
ISBN: 2:00336382
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
As compelling as it is informative and authoritative, The Anatomy of Addiction will lead you to a better understanding about the causes, prevention, and treatment of addiction. It explains in layman's terms what constitutes effective, evidence-based addiction medicine and how to find it.
This book provides actionable, scientific information for addicts and their families and details how to avoid so-called rehab clinics that are at best useless and at worst dangerous and even life threatening.
heat quicker. If you keep drinking when you have cirrhosis of the liver, you will most likely be dead within seven years. In the meantime, you can develop kidney failure and all kinds of disturbing brain disorders. Brain Damage Damage to the brain first shows up as headaches, blackouts, and numbness in the hands and feet. Keep on drinking and you can have permanent structural damage and premature aging. A thirty-five-year-old alcoholic may well have the shriveled up brain of a sick
undernourished. That doesn’t sound so bad until you realize it means your pancreas isn’t going to work right. That makes more work for your liver. Your glucose levels are low, and that causes more brain damage. If you’re a guy, and you want shriveled, shrunken testicles and a nice set of man boobs, keep drinking. Your testosterone levels drop with excessive alcohol use, as does your sperm count. You won’t have to worry about sex issues, because you will probably be impotent and unable to have
prisons for drug-related charges. Of course, this doesn’t count the incalculable costs of lives ruined and families destroyed. I want to stress, it is not a crime in the United States to have the physical illness of addiction. But if the object of your addiction, such as illicit drugs, is illegal, you could be arrested and prosecuted for the mere act of possessing it. The situation places the person suffering from addiction in a situation of continually interacting with the criminal underworld
evidence-based treatment centers exist as alternatives. Who’s to judge whether talking about your problems with other addicts or being treated by a medical professional is the better course of treatment, right? Private insurance companies and Medicaid also contribute to the problem. In eleven states, Medicaid programs put limits of one to three years on how long addicts can be prescribed Suboxone, one of the leading medications used in addiction treatment. Imagine if we had similar limitations
criminal justice system Leaving Las Vegas, 16 Ledger, Heath, 76–77 Lexapro, 166 Librium, 125 lifestyle, xii, 12 Lioresal, 115 liver, 71–72, 74, 176, 195 Long Day’s Journey into Night (O’Neill), 59 lorazepam, 125 Lortab, 38 Los Angeles County General Hospital, 69 Los Angeles County Psychiatric Emergency Services, 16 Los Angeles Times, 11 Lost Weekend, 15 LSD, 161, 164 Magnan, Valentin, 32 managed maintenance, 141–43, 211 for cocaine dependence, 144–45 in extreme addiction cases,