Dependence is the need to perform a certain action. It can be different, including medication. It is worth learning more about drug dependence and the drugs that cause it.
Tranquilizers
There are drugs that do not belong to the drug group. They can be freely bought at the pharmacy, but they are addictive, both psychological and physical. This is a group of drugs, which include tranquilizers or anxiolytics. They remove anxiety, fears, tension and help a person with neurotic disorders.
Hypnotics and antihistamines
Also, such drugs include sleeping pills (taken for any sleep disturbance) and antihistamines (help a person get rid of allergy symptoms, but they have side effects). For example, Diphenhydramine has sleeping pills. Because of this, a person is immersed in a state of intoxication, drowsiness, lethargy. But certain doses give stronger effects, up to euphoria.
Anticholinergics
There is another group of drugs that are called special in medicine - anticholinergics. For example, Cyclodolum. This is a drug that, when taken in large doses, causes euphoria. Used in psychiatry in order to eliminate certain consequences of taking psychotropic drugs. This is a specific substance.
Drug addiction
All these drugs do not belong to the group of drugs, but they cause euphoria, a state of psychological pleasure, psychological, and then chemical dependence. It turns out that these drugs can provoke an addiction that will then become a problem for a person who uses these substances. These types of drug dependence on drugs are distinguished:
- The first group is voluntary drug addicts. People who consciously take drugs that cause euphoria, a sense of relaxation.
- The second group is people who are forced to use such funds for some reason.
People who belong to the second group take these kinds of drugs in order to treat some kind of disorder. All remedies are intended for long-term treatment. That is, drugs are prescribed in courses, after which they are replaced by others, or they are completely excluded from the therapeutic plan.
If patients feel that this remedy helps them, many then stop going to the doctor, while continuing self-medication. Why go to the doctor if they have learned to manage their health? It seems to such patients that the taken remedy really helps from all existing ailments. And if not, then the dosage can be increased independently.
If you take these kinds of drugs for a long time, then with a 100% probability we can talk about addiction. However, the patient himself does not pay attention to this. He does not even understand what happened. The body is accustomed to the drug, and the dose that a person took earlier does not help. Therefore, he will be forced to take more. And it comes to the fact that the patient has a systematic overdose.
How does this affect health?
Excessive doses and frequent use of medications adversely affect the human body, its state of health in general, as well as behavior in particular. Negative consequences are expected to go to the cardiovascular and autonomic system, as well as the central and peripheral nervous system.
How to notice a person with addiction? What happens during this period?
These are usually people with tachycardia. Their pressure changes: either hypertension or hypotension develops. The size of the pupils also changes. Often they increase so much that the iris is not visible. Such people constantly hide their eyes from others. It is impossible to determine the color of the eyes, since only black huge pupils are visible. It happens that tremor occurs. And so pronounced that it is impossible to hide. A person with an addiction becomes thin, complexion changes, the skin becomes dry, the work of the gastrointestinal tract is disrupted. There are constipation, hemorrhoids, loss of appetite or its complete absence.
The development of various diseases
Sudden pressure drops lead to fainting conditions. From a large number of pills, stomach pain occurs. Ultimately, this can lead to the development of peptic ulcer. There is not only a violation of the digestive tract, but also the liver. Especially should be highlighted such diseases and unpleasant phenomena:
- pancreatitis
- cramps in the stomach;
- bad breath;
- a change in the condition of the mucous membranes;
- rotten teeth.
Of course, the nervous system suffers greatly. Appears:
- irritability;
- moodiness;
- viciousness;
- distraction;
- change in mental behavior.
Sleep after taking sleeping pills can be medication, coma. That is, it is oppression by the function of the central nervous system up to respiratory arrest and heart function. Subsequently, the person simply does not wake up.
Sedatives cause a relaxing reaction, relieve anxiety. They enter into a state in which convulsions, seizures, tremors occur. With the long-term use of a certain drug, these reactions appear more often, which leads to cerebral edema, cirrhosis of the liver and even death.
How is drug dependence treated?
Course treatment with any drugs that are addictive is described in the official instructions. Taking medications should be done under the supervision of a physician. The duration of the course can be 5, 7 and 14 days. Also, according to indications, the period may be increased, but not more than 21 days.
If the doctor prescribed a drug to a person that causes addiction, then he should warn about the consequences. The patient should be aware of this and adhere to the recommended dosage.
Dependence on tranquilizers is treated very hard. It lasts several months.
First of all, you need to "detach" the drug. That is, to isolate a person from what caused the addiction. Such people behave like drug addicts. Somewhere they hide the pills to leave them for later.
There is another dependence, which is called psychological. Such people need the drug to always be with them. As a rule, they have some kind of disease or a life-threatening condition is possible. For example, with a heart attack, hypertensive crisis, vascular pathologies, etc. The presence of pills at hand allows the patient to be calm. If they are not there, panic begins. Excitement, in turn, causes an exacerbation of the disease.
What to treat?
To cure a person of this dependence, he is transferred to drugs that are not able to cause dependence:
- medicines based on medicinal plants;
- homeopathic remedies.
Other treatments
Often, other methods are chosen to eliminate drug dependence, if possible. They also help to avoid the re-occurrence of dependence, but from another drug. For example, this is physiotherapy. The list of procedures is quite large:
- reflexology;
- acupuncture;
- massage;
- hypnosis, suggestion, etc.
Forced treatment
Sometimes people who pretend to be treated, but actually take drugs, are placed in a psychological clinic. It’s safer to stay in a hospital for a person with addiction, because there may be hiding places at home. In order to finally recover from drug dependence, it is better to go to the clinic. In this case, the probability of getting rid of this condition is much higher.
Drugs that cause chemical dependence on the effects of drugs are sold only by prescription. These are psychotropic drugs. Such drugs are used only a few days in small doses. In 60–70 years. there were not many drugs, so almost all of them were sold without prescription. But in our time, it’s not so easy to get strong medicines in a pharmacy.
Addiction or drug dependence causes the following list of drugs:
- medicines that include a synthetic drug called codeine;
- "Tropicamide" - eye drops that are addictive;
- "Terpincode" - contains codeine and ephedrine;
- "Corvalol", "Pentalgin" - drugs that contain phenobarbital - an addictive substance.
You can not completely rely on a doctor. In order not to harm yourself, it is recommended that you independently familiarize yourself with the annotation to the drug to find out the composition, as well as the dosage recommended in certain cases.