Addiction is defined by tolerance, withdrawal, and craving. We recognize addiction by a person’s increased and habituated need for a substance; by the intense suffering that results from discontinuation of use; and by the person’s willingness to sacrifice all (to the point of self-destructiveness) for drug taking.

Most addicts already know the consequences of drugs. So why they continue? Because they are already stuck. Most opiate drug users tend to be depressive. Drugs tend to relieve their pleasure senses until there is no turning back. In simple terms, they need drugs to make them happy and to relieve the pain either emotionally or physically.

Drug addicts tend to use more each time they consume. Why? Because they want to get the same feeling as the first time. The body is already prone or used to that amount of drugs from the first uses so that the addict usually needs more to get the same effect “HIGH”. The more the addicts takes each time, the more addicted they are.

At this point, the addict is already at a compulsive point. They need drugs to survive. They need it like normal people need breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Thy will do anything for drugs even if it hurts the people around them. They will steal, rob and even endanger their love ones to get what they need. They know all this is wrong, but they are already the slaves of the drugs, the addictive drugs activate the brain’s reward systems, the promise of reward is very intense, causing the addict to crave the drugs and to focus their daily life around taking drugs.

Craving is an extremely powerful urge and can cause a person to create all kinds of excuses to begin using drugs again. They are trapped in a continuous cycle of trying to quit, craving, relapse and fear of withdrawal.

Without drugs or a lowered dosed they go through a dreadful withdrawal. This could occur as early after the last administration. Withdrawal produced drug craving, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, vomiting, cold flashes, diarrhea, loss of appetite, tremors, panic, relapse, and many others symptoms. These withdrawal symptoms will last for about one week depending on how heavily the user’s is dependent.

To prevent relapse we strongly believe that rehabilitation is forever, and our advice is “attention, attention – alert, alert”.

 › What is a Drug?
In medical terms, a drug is any substance that when taken into a living organism may modify one or more functions. Drugs can provide temporary relief from unhealthy symptoms and/or permanently supply the body with a necessary substance the body can no longer make. Some drugs produce unwanted side effects. In large enough doses, all drugs are toxic. Some drugs lead to an unhealthy dependency that has both physiological and behaviors roots.

 › What Is Addiction?
Addiction refers quite restrictively to situations where dependence on a drug has become a person’s main concern in life, if note their sole concern.
Whether a person is genetically or biochemical predisposed to addiction or alcoholism is a controversy that has been debated for years within the scientific community

 › How Do Drugs Affect The Mind?
The mind is our most important tool. With our mind, we solve the problems we face in life. Drugs do several things that harm one’s ability to think or to be fully aware of the present surroundings. These effects continue long after the effects of drug appear to have worn off. Addictive drugs activate the brain’s reward systems. The promise of reward is very intense causing the individual to crave the drugs and to focus their activities around taking the drug.

 › Drugs And Personality Change
There is such a thing as a “Drug personality.” It is artificial and is created by drugs. The drugs can cause the individual’s thoughts and feelings to change from their original values to those of a hostile, violent and uncaring person.
Although these behaviors are not present in every addict, their prevalence in many addicts helps to establish a link between drugs and increasing difficulties with crime, loss of production and the modern breakdown of social and industrial culture.

 › The drug personality includes such characteristics as:
- Mood swings unreliable.
- Unable to finish projects.
- Unexpressed resentment and secreted hatreds.
- Dishonesty. Lies to family, friends, and employers.
- Withdraws from those who love him. Isolates self.
- May appear chronically depressed.
- May begin stealing from family and friends.

When a person drinks or uses drugs over a period of time, the body becomes unable to completely eliminate them all. Drugs and alcohol are broken down in the liver. These metabolites, (the substances the body converts the drugs or alcohol into) although removed rapidly from the blood stream, become trapped in the fatty tissues. There are various types of tissues that are high in fat content, the one thing in common – and the problem that needs to be addressed is that these drug residues remain for years. Tissues in our bodies that are high in fats are turned over very slowly. When they are turned over, the stored drug metabolites are released into the blood stream and reactivate the same brain centers as if the person actually took the drug. The former addict now experiences a drug restimulation and drug craving. This is common in the months after an addict quits and can continue to occur for years, even decades.

 › The Cycle Of Quitting, Withdrawal, Craving And Relapse

When the addict initially tries to quit, cells in the brain that have become used to large amounts of these metabolites are now forced to deal with much decreased amounts. Even as the withdrawal symptoms subside, the brain “demands” that the addict give it more of the drug. This is called drug craving. Craving is an extremely powerful urge and can cause a person to create all kinds of “reasons” they should begin using drugs or drinking again. He is now trapped in an endless cycle of trying to quit, craving, relapse and fear of withdrawal. Eventually, the brain cells will again become used to having lowered drug metabolites. But, because deposits of drug or alcohol metabolites release back into the bloodstream from fatty tissues for years, craving and relapse remain a cause for concern. Left unhand led, the presence of metabolites even in microscopic amounts cause the brain to react as if the addict had again actually taken the drug and can set up craving and relapse even after years of sobriety. To prevent relapse we strongly believe that rehabilitation is forever, and our advice is “attention, attention – alert, alert”.