Trumps to bid drugs bye
Dr Satparkash
Addiction is a biological disease. Alcohol dependence and addiction to drugs such as Methamphetamines (Yaba and Ice) or opiates including heroin, smack or brown sugar, opium, cough syrups, Proxyvon, Spasmoproxyvon, Fortwin, Morphine and Tidigesic injections are dreaded problems all over the world today.The addict dreads going in for detoxification or getting the body clean of drugs because of the intense discomfort experienced during withdrawal. Withdrawal is the period of time when somebody is getting used to not taking a drug that they have become dependent on, and the unpleasant effects of doing this. With rapid detoxification, the entire procedure is painless and no discomfort is felt during withdrawal. This is achieved through latest scientific and cutting edge international technologies. Unfortunately, will-power and determination are not the pillars of prevention from relapse. Here relapse refers to the fact of becoming addict again after making an improvement. Earlier, the failure rate of treatment was about 95 percent. That is, a relapse was almost inevitable. But not now!! In a radical improvement in the treatment strategy, medicinal implants are now put under the skin through minor surgery. The implant makes relapse almost impossible. An implant can last for a period of three months up to one year. It avoids the need to supervise administration of the tablet and the arguments that follow, makes it impossible to 'forget' to take the tablet and eliminates craving because there is no point in craving for something that you cannot have. Using implants, the success rates as high as 95 percent to 98 percent with different kinds of drugs. For the people addicted to sleeping pills, through a slow infusion of antidotes carried out under medical supervision over a few hours, these drugs are flushed from the body and when the body is clean, relapse prevention methods are initiated. Various strategies to help people decrease or quit the smoking habit are also available. These include nicotine replacement therapy and acupuncture. In addition to all these latest strategies, facilities are also available for long-term hospitalisation and rehabilitation, management of all psychiatric disorders, various psychological and psychiatric diagnostic tests and different kinds of psychotherapy. Different drug testing kits that give instant results can diagnose abuse of drugs such as opiates, stimulants. The writer is an Addiction Disorders and Rehabilitation Programme specialist.
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