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Concept of addiction

 

The concept of addiction is relationed with a situation in which the main point is an incoercible desire (craving) for a substance or object, turning it into the main reason for living despite all the other interests or passions.

 

Why are drugs consumed?

 

We cannot say that only one exists leading to the consumption of drugs. However, we know that it results from a reunion of some factors that can be individual, social, familiar or ambiental.

 

Inherent factors of the substance also exist, or either, different substances captivate different people.  The consumption of drugs if does not leads straight to the addiction properly said, can also conduct to different types of consumption with different meanings.  It is important to perceive that the reasons that lead to the experimentation are different of those leading to the dependence.

 

In an experimentation phase the consumptions are made by curiosity, for a will to belong to a group, for a desire of diversion, because of fear of a group’s exclusion, for the availability of the drugs or the identification between the consumption of drugs and one definitive apetecido life style (glamoroso). (only some factors).

 

By itself, this experimental consumption does not lead, necessarily, to an habitual consumption. The recreativo consumption of drugs is, seldom, associated to diversion and leisure, being one of its main characteristics the search for an immediate pleasure.  The dependence is installed when the consumption becomes the main objectivo and motivation in the life of a person, taking it to move away from everything and of everyone, in an inverse social scaling. The intoxification is an auto-erotic process; it’s a way of the self existing without the other…

 

What it's known as addiction, is an appealing to certain substances that are exclusive to the vital well being and pleasure of the person, developing dependence behaviour.

 

Why the person does poison itself, when he knows that the object of his pleasure dams his health?

 

This is the basic sequence. The human object suffers, so he is threat in three fronts: - The outside world, which imposes him the rough law of the need and of the frustration. His body, a very weak object, which is wrongly loved by himself. And the other people, with whom he doesn’t know how to deal – his parents’ love, other peoples’ love,  friendship and admiration.

 

Suffering or being unhappy doesn’t fit with happiness to which every human being wants. So, when there is the moment where the psychophysical and social coincidence meet a substance that invades blood, tissues enhancing immediate pleasure, even if modificating sensation, they will turn non pleasant sensations into no sensations. This is the harder way to eliminate pain – smashing it.

 

Freud’s empfindungsleben (sensation’s life), is by means of an outside substance modified, so the person has his pain altered (eliminated). This pharmacokinetic orgasm turns dependents of their own world, always with the “best” sensation conditions. If there’s a marriage, even if mortal, with the substance, that’s a way of divorcing with the pain…., being this one of the reasons why the person intoxifies himself to dead: living with no fear of living.

 

Our technical role is to promote the identification of this pain (existence pain) and give technical skills, so the patient can deal with himself with no fears or masks. If, in a past he has freely chosen not to be free, in the present he has to recognize his mistake and ask for help – he must start by plugging himself with the outside world… Secondly, he has to stop drugs and that is where we start our job – we promote a rapid induction onto naltrexone, and a means of no drug by a neutralizer implant.

 

 

 

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