Why people get addicted to Drugs?

narkotikaYou might wonder why people take drugs.  There are many reasons for it. The most popular reason that has been given by health expert is lack of emotional quotient among people. Most of the people who get addicted to drugs do not come from a healthy family background. They have not been brought up with proper love and care by their parents or guardians. Due to this, their emotional quotient is low and they are always searching for something that can fulfill this void within them.

These people are said to have more tendency to get addicted to a drug. Now the question arises from where do these people get drugs? There can be different sources for it as well. Some patients that are being treated in Drug Addiction Treatment Center have reported starting consuming drugs just as a fashion and just to be in the social circle. They said that as their friends were consuming drugs, they too started to use them simply because they were not able to refuse when it was offered to them.  They slowly became addicted to it and it becomes hard for them to survive without a dose of a drug.

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Then there were some other cases, where the medicine itself played the role of a drug addictive substance. This happens when a medicine is consumed as a habit. As most of the medicines have certain kind of alcohol content in it, there are chances that you can get addicted to them. If you start taking higher doses of any medicine with them what it has been prescribed by the doctor, you are going to get addicted to it. This is because all alcohol has a stimulating factor as well as adjective property. Therefore it is necessary to understand that medicines are only used for the medical purpose and they should not be used in any other ways whatsoever.

Understating the process of Drug Addiction

Beginnings-Treatment-Centers-Drug-Addiction-Treatment-Female-Addict-With-Pills-273587306Drug addiction is a condition when the body gets used to a certain type of drug and it starts demanding it more frequently and in more quantity. The drug plays the role of a stimulant and its consumption makes you feel better and relaxed. When you do not get that particular drug for a certain period of time, the body starts getting back into its normal mode. As you like your relaxed and tension free mode which was attained with the help of the drug that you consumed, you start searching for that drug that helped you get that free state of mind. Therefore body starts demanding that particular drug.

As you start consuming a certain drug, the body gradually starts getting used to it and its effect start to decrease. Therefore, in order to get the same effect of the drug on your body, you have to consume more quantity of it. This means that if you had consumed 5mg of a certain drug for the 1st time to get the ‘high’, then after a few doses of that drug, you will require 8-10 mg of it to attain the state of mind which you had attained earlier. After some more doses, the body will get used to that quantity as well and in order to have the effect of the drug, you might require a further high dose.

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This process becomes a vicious circle. The more quantity of drug you take every time, the lesser effect it starts to show on your body. Your body also starts getting used to it and if you do not consume it for a certain amount of time, you start feeling uncomfortable and could even start behaving abnormally. This is a gradual process of addiction. If this situation goes out of control, then you might have to take help from Drug Addiction Treatment Center for the revival of the addicted person.

Useful information about drug and medicine

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A drug can be defined as a stimulant, which is either derived naturally or processed chemically. When a drug is consumed, it affects the nervous system of the human body in a peculiar way. In general terms, drug and medicine are treated as one and the same. Both of them have a certain composition, which is helpful in treating different types of ailments or diseases, which implies that both of them do have a meditative value. But what separates a drug addiction from medicine is the dosage.

Most of the medicines have got a certain alcoholic content in them, which is used to relax or inert the body while it is being operated. If the quantity of alcohol in any medicine is more than required or permitted, or if the dose of a medicine is consumed at a much higher rate than prescribed, then it becomes more of an alcohol rather than medicine. It can have additive property meaning it can make the consumer addicted to it.

You might have heard of a drug addict being taken to Drug Addiction Treatment Center but it would sound awkward if you hear someone being taken to a rehab center for consuming a medicine! But, as you can understand from this article, that can be quite possible as well, because of the minute difference between a drug and a medicine!

Therefore, it is necessary to understand the minute difference between the two. The only major technical difference between a drug and a medicine is the amount or the quantity, that is being consumed. An excess amount of any drug or medicine can make you addictive to it and it is going to have an adverse effect on your body. Therefore, it is necessary to take any drug or medicine as per the prescription was given to you by the doctor.