By Dr. Dalal Akoury Dr. Dalal Akoury August 5, 2015

The necessity of addiction treatment in time: Drug addiction is a curable disease

I want to bring to you the message of hope particularly to those who may be losing hope in their struggle with addiction. We understand the difficulties you and your family are going through in your struggle with the condition. It also concerns us as professionals from AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center. This is a medical facility that was founded by one of the veteran addiction expert doctor Dalal Akoury with the primary objective of bringing hope to all addiction victims like you. Because of our great concern, we want to assure you that somebody cares and you are not alone. The good news about this problem is that it is curable meaning that you can have you life back and live it to the fullest. However for this to take effect it is important that we share with you the necessity of addiction treatment in time. Remember that just like all other health conditions, prevention would be the best so that we don’t have to get to the treatment phase. Nonetheless, because this is already with us professional treatment becomes necessary. It will therefore interest you to note that, the formation of this facility was guided by the good will doctor Dalal Akoury is having in making her contribution towards eliminating this problem from your life and that of your family. Doctor Akoury practice focuses on personalized medicine through healthy lifestyle choices that deal with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of patching up symptoms. Therefore if this introduction suits your situation, then you are at the right place and calling doctor Akoury for an appointment should be the first thing to do so that she can enroll you to the right addiction recovery program.

Now back to our topic of discussion “the necessity of addiction treatment in time, it is quite unfortunate that despite this condition being curable many people still don’t come out for help and they chose to suffer in silence. Yet some still argue that the addiction treatment does not help and that it is only the patient’s own strong will that can solve the problem of addiction. This is what I will call a terrible mistake. It is important to note that the journey for treatment of addiction is along one. Like for instance, in the first 3-5 years of addiction victims are generally inclined to deny the existence of any problem. Then after this the next phase of the process is delaying and searching for the short cuts and cheapest treatment, and then the statement that nothing helped them is followed. With all these time wasting the intensity of addiction increases meaning that there will be need of a lot of motivation on the part of loved ones for this process to be a success. Doctor Akoury says that even though motivation is necessary, it is meaningless to keep postponing treatment until the moment when motivation appears, when a person’s physical and emotional will power have been completely worn out.

The usual argument and blame game where victims defend themselves by using cases where some people’s addiction treatment were unsuccessful to declare that addiction is incurable disease is pure manipulation and shifting of responsibility on parents, doctors, government, aliens and other such institutions and individuals. The true position is that people who have recovered from their addiction will always try as soon as possible to forget the period of their lives which was associated with drugs. They often do so because they are ashamed and sorry for many mistakes they made. People just don’t want to recall that time. For man of sense it is stupid to walk around and boast to everybody that he was cured. On contrary, a drug addict with a peculiar tendency to change reasonable behavior for empty rhetoric will be arguing that treatment doesn’t help, because two or three of ten undergoing treatment failed. Therefore, the negative feedback on different drug forums and in the streets always prevails yet this is not always the case. If you want to be helped, speak to the experts and don’t listen to street garters. Your health is very important for you to take wrong information from quakes and believe them.

The necessity of addiction treatment in time: Drug addiction is a serious disease not a bad habit

Did you know that at this point of time there are still very many people who still believe that addiction is all about weak character? It is quite unfortunate that after many years of communicating with the addicts and their relatives we could still realized the following:

Despite the fact that nowadays, when information about addiction available to everybody, most of the people, oddly enough, know little about drug addiction as a disease and often underestimate its seriousness and destructiveness to the body. And in this regard, they just don’t realize how deep, diverse and the same time complex must be the treatment. Most people believe that drug addiction is rather a bad habit than an illness. But in fact, this is a very serious disease that affects all body systems – from the higher nervous activity to intracellular metabolism. That is why addiction must be considered as one of the most intractable diseases. Everyone knows that our organism is endowed with protective systems which protect us from germs, viruses and other disease-causing factors. To such protective systems can be attributed a system that produces ingenious “hormones of pleasure” – endorphins and enkephalins. The purpose of which is to protect the body from such harmful factors as stress, pain, shock. For instance, in case of injury or disease the endorphins protect the whole body and especially the nervous system from excessive pain, which in its turn may be very detrimental by itself. Sufficient level of endorphins makes a person feel good, optimistic, productive, and active during the day and provides good quality sleep during a night.

The necessity of addiction treatment in time: Drug addiction and endorphins

When we talk about endorphins we refer to any group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system which are tasked with a number of physiological functions. Ordinarily they are peptides that activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect. Now having got that explanation, it is important to note that the external narcotics will destroy the ingenious narcotic system and thus leave the individual without its protection. It therefore means that foreign drugs displace the body’s own endorphins and gradually become an essential element of biochemical processes in nervous system. In this case the person is forced to use the drugs to maintain his health condition in a “normal” state. The nature of endorphin-enkefhalin system is such that it is not able for self-recovery. It means that without proper repair of this marred by drugs system, to defeat craving for drugs is impossible. A person with impaired endorphin system is vulnerable to stress, to situations where even the slightest provocation can cause him to resort to drugs again. We will continue the discussion of this hormone in our next article but in the meantime, treatment of addiction must be done in good time if any meaningful result is to be realized. Therefore if addiction is causing you sleepless nights, reach out for help from the experts at AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center today.