Alcoholism: A Disease

 

The confusion comes about in part because of a distinction between whether specific drugs are "physically" or "psychologically" addicting. Historically the distinction revolved around whether or not physical withdrawal symptoms occur when an individual discontinues using a drug; what we in the field now call "physical dependence". However, years of research have demonstrated to us that focusing on this physical versus psychological distinction is a distraction from the real issues at hand. We have the best alcohol rehabilitation centre in Pune. What really matters most is whether or not a drug causes what we now know to be an addiction.

This is the crux of how the Institute of Medicine, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Medical Association define addiction and how we all should use the term. It is only this compulsive quality of addiction that matters in the long run to the addict and his or her family. The changes in brain function resulting in compulsive craving that overwhelms all other motivations and is the root cause of the massive health and social problems associated with drug addiction.

A definition of drug addiction is commonly referred to as "a brain disease expressed in the form of compulsive behavior". It is important to correct the common misimpression that drug use, abuse, and addiction are points on a single continuum along which one slides back and forth over time, moving from user to addict, then back to occasional user, then back to addict. Extensive research studies support the view that once addicted, the individual has moved into a different state of being.

Unfortunately, we do not yet have a clear biological or behavioural marker of that transition from voluntary drug use to addiction. The complexity of this brain disease is not atypical, because virtually no brain diseases are simply biological in nature. All, including stroke, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and clinical depression, include some behavioural and social aspects.

Moreover, not everyone who ever uses drugs goes on to become addicted. Although genetic characteristics may predispose individuals to be more or less susceptible to becoming addicted, genes do not doom one to become an addict. For many people, these behaviors are truly uncontrollable, just like the behavioural expression of any other brain disease.

 Schizophrenics cannot control their hallucinations and delusions. Parkinson's patients cannot control their trembling. Clinically depressed patients cannot voluntarily control their moods. Please note that not every person requires an inpatient drug rehab or addiction treatment facility, but research shows that most individuals do require a structure of some kind to break the vicious compulsive cycle associated with drug addiction and alcoholism. You can contact us through our website, we have the best rehabilitation centre in India.

As there are many facilities to help and deal with such alcohol and drug-related issues in India, there are many top rehab centres in India where top-notch accommodation facilities are thus provided. Having the basic amenities of air-conditioned rooms and dormitories with the supply of hot water, veg and non-veg food menu, satellite TV, and the availability of indoor games, the rehab centres also have a 24/7 medical and support staff, with a panel of medical and psychiatric staff and also an experienced counselling team with top reputed therapists. One will also have the 24/7 availability of ambulances with clean and modern living areas which would indeed provide positive health being.

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