The Mental and Physical Effects of Drugs

Drugs tend to regress people. That is to say they tend to throw them out of present time and into the past. They can actually stick the person in instances of his past experiences to some slight degree, typically past experiences with drugs, alcohol or medicines.

Since drugs are often taken to lessen a pain or emotional upset or something of the sort, if you are stuck in that pain or upset to some degree you are going to be dramatizing it in your life to that degree. This is not a good way to live. Now let’s say you are a weekend drug or alcohol user. You are stacking these incidents upon incidents in your mind in addition to escalating the hardship physiologically on your body. Very soon you begin taking the drug not only on weekends but at times throughout the week. This increases more and more and before you know it you are an addict.

This is a reason many people won’t admit to being a drug addict because it happens gradually. At times it is a steep gradient, but a gradient nonetheless. They did not just wake up someday and they were an addict, it took place gradually over a period of time.

When a person is out of present time he would seem to be there, but he rhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifeally isn’t managing fully in present time. Right before your eyes he is apparently in the same room as you, doing the same things you are doing, but he is really only somewhat there and somewhat in some past event.

This is why drug users seem to be so slow and make frequent mistakes. They frequently drop out of communication with individuals for days at a time, which will all tend to very irritating to someone who is not in that condition.

Drug not only affect the body, which they obviously do, but they significantly affect the mind as well.
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When people do an successful drug detox they will often speak of no longer living in a cloud. This is not only a physical manifestation but also a mental one. A good drug rehab can revive a person and give them back the life they once had, long before drugs, when life was good and fun. People enjoyed being with them and vice versa. It can be that way again, but the drug addict needs to recognize it and want to change. If he has hope that it can be fixed he will do it.

(To find an successful drug rehab center go to http://getcured.org or simply call 888-774-2345.)

What You're Handling With a Drug Addict

Because drugs blunt the nervous system they are a temporary solution to getting rid of undesirable feelings like sadness, boredom or fear. At times, such as in an tragedy or when there has been an car accident, drugs are necessary so an operation can be performed. Drugs are used to shut down pain and other unwanted feelings. But there are a whole other group of wanted feelings and drugs block off ALL feelings, the ones you want included, like joy, happiness and creativity to name a some.

For the drug addict, sooner or later, anyhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif kind of fhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifeeling becomes more difficult to experience. That includes sexual feelings too. In the beginning when a person takes drugs they can act as a sexual stimulant, but as a person takes more and more of the drug they become a depressant and he or she no longer receives pleasure from sex and if you are a man you‘re not even able to have sex.

As the drug use goes on the user feels less alive in all ways, unfeeling actually, and he may behave as if he doesn’t care about anything or anyone around him, this includes himself. This is why it is so exasperating to the friends and family of a drug abusers. They can’t understand why he will not even do anything to help himself but the fact is he has a difficult time thinking at all so he is not really capable at that point of doing much of anything.

Before long, drugs will make a person less aware of what is going on around him. He will come to be slower, not as quick to react, or move or think. So he gets into accidents and other dangerous situations more easily when he has used drugs.

Frequently a person isn’t aware of this change in himself, even though other people may observe it and try to point it out to him. This is why it is frustrating to those around him because his situation is very obvious to them, but he is so shut off to the world around him he is not aware of it, at least not at first.

After a while the user will hit what looks like bottom and then he will hit a few more lower points that he would have never thought possible. This is when he becomes available to help, when he himself becomes aware that he needs it.

Even though by this time most of the loved ones around him are so frustrhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifated with him and may no longer care, this is when they need to get the drug abuser into a very effective drug rehab facility.

(To locate a suitable drug rehab center go to http://getcured.org or call 888-774-2345)

What the Drug Addict is Thinking

A drug addict will go through their own personal hell. When someone tells them they need help they will normally deny it and even claim they don’t have a problem. If it was possible to read their minds you would understand they don’t truthfully feel that way.

The addict is aware he has a problem, but very often to admit that to someone else would be like admitting he was wrong. For a lot of people, not just addicts, admitting you were wrong is tantamount to saying you are dead.
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Usually a drug addict has been declaring his “rightness” for so long about not needing help, or not having a issue that every time you attempt to convince him he should get help it is another nail in his coffin of having to be right concerning his condition.

The addict experiences intense emotional and physical stress. His senses are numbed, he can’t think, and he is desperate for help but he thinks if he asks for it, it would be a sign of weakness. This is not logical thinking that I’m talking about here, this is the irrationality of the mind of a drug addict.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

He is extremely confused about almost everything. He has shut down emotionally and physically, the drugs have guaranteed that. He is not facing the way things are. He is hoping he can just keep the status quo because he's not able to confront his life to make improvements. The problem with that kind of thinking is it is completely unworkable. In this world factors either get better or they get worse. Nothing remains the same for any length of time. In the situation with a drug addict they are not likely to get better until he makes changes in his perspective, so, regrettably things are going to get worse.

At this stage there's the inevitability of either change your life for thttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhe better or die an early death, either by drug overdose, car accident or any other infinite possible causes of death. The addict deep down would love to change and this is where a good, effective drug rehab facility can save his or her life. To get them there takes a friend or family member who loves him enough to get him to face up to the situation no matter what it takes. At times it just requires a very good communication cycle where the addict genuinely understands that you care. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifOther times it takes “tough love”. But whatever it takes it must be done.

(To find out about a workable drug rehab program visit getcured.org or call 888-774-2345.)

Drugs do More Harm Than We Know

When a person takes drugs or alcohol it will burn up vitamins in the body, particularly B complex vitamins, which are essential to the central nervous system as well as many other parts of the body.

Alcohol is definitely a drug. Like any other drug if you take it in too large of volume it is poisonous and can kill you. Short of that, there will be lesser degrees of reaction to the poison. Like other drugs, alcohol uses up vitamins in your body and as a result you can feel tired or sick after drinking more than you should. That is what is called a hangover. If you burn up too many vitamins your body will start to shake and you’ll get sweats. You can start to worry and begin to see things that are not there, this is called DTs, or delirium tremens.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

The body needs vitamins to stay alive. If you don’t eat a healthy diet you are probably not getting the vitamins you need. Most people who are taking drugs or alcohol to excess usually are not careful to eat properly. This weakens your immune system. Not having proper nutrition will make you feel tired and you are likely to get sick much easier. Then when you do get sick it also takes that much longer to get well.

With just small routine amounts of toxins that a person runs into in everyday life the liver will help filter them out of the body. But, when the body is inundated with drugs, including alcohol, the liver goes into overload and it can’t process them out and it weaken the body overall. In general, not a pretty picture.

So, if a person is taking drugs, legal or illegal, to make himself feel better it’s not going to work. Each time the body burns up more vitamins and the situation escalates. Not only is it not making you feel better it is making you feel worse as soon as the drug wears off and it becomes a rapidly dwindling spiral. Watch the water speed up when you flush the toilet. It’s the perfect analogy.

Make no mistake, the body does not differentiate whether the drugs are illehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifgal or legal. The reaction is the same. It burns up vitamins and weakens it in many ways, thereby making it susceptible to disease and any illness you want to name. That’s what occurs to the body, you can refer to many of my previous articles (and many future ones) on the blog to get information about what it does to the mind.

To get additional information on drugs and their effects go to getcured.org

Drugs Absolutely Do Affect the Mind

Here is the 2nd in a series of articles that dispels some of the lies that are widespread about drug use. The reality is that most of the info people get about drugs is not accurate. It comes from those who sell drugs, or people who take drugs themselves. Companies that manufacture and make money from the sale of drugs and advertise them on TV are a completely unreliable source of the facts about drugs. There have been multitudes of examples of drug companies falsifying tests to get drugs approved by the FDA. So they are not at all a credible source of information, only misinformation.

One of the more common misconceptions that people have about drugs is that most drugs don’t hurt your mind. But the fact is drugs make one numb and shut off feelings. With pain relievers, for examplehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif, that is the whole purpose to stop the feeling, thereby, shutting down the pain. If you have a sore leg and you want to prevent the pain with a pain pill, unfortunately, you can’t make it work on just your leg. It will turn off the pain and feeling all over the body and your mind. It would be advantageous to be able to dull a particular area but if you take something into your body it works over the whole body.

The drugs shut down your mind as well. It prohibits you from remembering things. It scrambles memories too. When a person has taken many drugs over a long period of time one of the signs or symptoms everyone in that situation exhibits is feeling numb, including emotionally. Some people even say they’d rather feel pain than to feel nothing at all. In fact, I just recalled a song with those exact words.

But there are degrees of this as well. Just because a person only takes drugs once in a while doesn’t imply they don’t have a negative effect. It is just a matter of degree.

Drugs make you forgetful, distorted, irresponsible, and in sort of a wooded state. People in that condition are not reliable and are not trustworthy. You probably wouldn’t want to associate with someone in that sort of condition so why should anyone want to do it to themselves.

This is also true of over the counter drugs like aspirin. They are pain http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifkillers and work with exactly the same principle of shutting the body down.

So if someone asks you if drugs affect the mind now you can give them an accurate answer.

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