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ADDICTION IS A TREATABLE CONDITION
- NOT A CHRONIC ILLNESS
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Behavioral aspects of addiction
Addiction is the obsessive-compulsive desire to consume a substance to reach a state of enhanced pleasure regardless of health consequences. Addiction is a behavior dictated by conscious and unconscious mental emotional components. Consciously the addicted person feels that he is unable to cope with stressful circumstances in his life and wants to avoid them. The addict may be a pleasure seeker and may not have developed skills to move through difficulties. He may have learnt during his childhood to cope with stress with substance abuse modeling his friends or family. The substance abuser cannot cope with feelings of failure and/or does not have the resources or the hardiness to fight. He is usually unaware of his belief system.
Biochemical aspects of addiction
The inner mechanisms and the physiology of addiction are the same regardless of the substance abused. The abused substance interferes with the normal production of dopamine in the pleasure center of the brain. Nature has associated pleasure with sex and food for survival purpose. Pleasure is Nature's way of tricking us into playing her divine game of survival. Some substances can increase the release of dopamine to more than 600 times the normal production and create a much higher pleasure than Nature can give us. When the brain experiences this amount of pleasure it wants to go back there again and again and there is the start of dependence and substance abuse.
Health consequences of addiction
Substance abuse and heightened pleasure come with tremendous consequences on health varying with the specific substance abused. For instance, a tobacco addiction may lead to respiratory problems such as emphysema and lung cancer, while methamphetamine abuse may lead to mental disorders or illness such as sleep disturbance and paranoia or schizophrenia. Alcohol, pharmaceutical drugs such as pain killers, tobacco, marijuana, methamphetamines, heroin, and cocaine may all be overused in a compulsive manner and lead to addiction.
Read about the mental aspects of addiction
Drugs and the nervous system
Substance Abuse
Addiction - behavior or disease? Guidelines
Food addiction & allergies
To accomplish successful abstinence from addictive substances, we are aiming at control and awareness over one's urges and desires. Awareness and free choice of one's identity is the guarantee of a long term abstinence from drugs.
CBT sees addiction as a behavior rather than a disease and subsequently curable, or rather, unlearnable.
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HAWAII NATURAL DRUG REHABILITATION
& RAW DETOXIFICATION RETREAT
Holistic Natural Residential Rehabilitation Programs for freedom from addiction to legal and illegal substances -
drawing from Naturopathic and Detoxification medicine, Behavioral and Psychodynamic therapy approaches, Meditation, Yoga and Spiritual practices.
Note: We take only a small amount of clients, and our programs are individually designed. Our use of the ocean, the recreational activities & natural approaches facilitate recovery.
1-808-982-8202
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ADDICTION RECOVERY
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I had been doing drugs heavily for 16 years and no rehab or therapist could change me.
I was too full of toxins for the twelve-step program to ever work on me. I needed to clean my body out so that I could feel normal enough to fight the desire to do drugs.
Dr Baylac awakened me.
I have remained cocaine free now for 2 years (2008)....
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