It is a brain disease that has damaging, calming, stimulating and happy effects; makes you want to buy more as time goes by, and causes harmful behavior when not taken. Everyone starts with the purpose of testing first and gets the illusion that they can control themselves. Use for trial purposes. In later stages, addiction emerges. The person increases the amount of use of the substance in order to achieve the same effect, and thus the addiction process begins.
CHANGES DUE TO THE EFFECT OF THE SUBSTANCE
DAMAGES OF THE SUBSTANCE
Although it varies depending on the type, it generally causes physiological, psychological and social damage to people.
Memory impairment, inability to learn new information
Inability to concentrate, absent-mindedness
Weakness and fatigue
Extreme weight loss
Restlessness, irritability (due to substance withdrawal)
Detachment from the environment
Damage to internal organs seeing
Poisonings and related deaths
SUBSTANCE ADDICTION RISK FACTORS
WHO IS AT RISK?
Children of parents with any substance addiction
Lack of parental interest. Family dynamics are very important, lack of communication within the family.
Low socioeconomic level
Soft thoughts formed by the person towards the substance, "what I want" The thought of "I can leave time" affects substance use and addiction.
Personality development, such as having impulsivity such as not being able to control oneself, having sudden mood changes, is a situation that poses a risk for substance addiction.
SUBSTANCE ADDICTION TREATMENT
First of all, the person must be willing to receive treatment and accept that he or she is addicted. Treatment can be provided in AMATEM, psychiatry clinics. The treatment period is 1-5 weeks, by hospitalization, by purifying the patient's body from the substance, and with simultaneous psychotherapies. After the treatment Follow-up treatment should be continued with the psychotherapy process accompanied by a specialist. It is also very important that parents have strong interactions with their children in this process.
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