Monday, August 18, 2008

Complicated nature of addiction

Social scientists, teachers, psychologists, psychiatrists pay a great deal of attention to understand the nature of addiction. It is complicated because it is a disease, it is psychological but also biological, it is also inherited as well as cultural.

If you take the opportunity to visit a rehabilitation center and talk to several people, you would see that almost all of them have different reasons for their addictions. This is even so for a simple alcohol addict or a caffeine addict or a cigarette smoker.

The image of an addict in our minds that comes mostly from Hollywood movies does not reflect the truth. Like it is in homosexuality, you cannot always look to a person and say "yes, this is an addict" or "no this person is not an addict".

Parents of teenagers also feel this difficulty when to tell their children have a drug addiction or not. If the child is not an addict and her parents insist on controlling her on substance abuse, this is another traumatic scene for the teenage. Without any addiction she is going to have other psychological disorders regarding trust, oppression, etc.

Due to this complicated nature of addictions, it is best to trust professional diagnosis and addiction treatment.

1 comment:

rehab said...

your Blog is very informative i am also having interest in topics of Drug addiction or alcohol addiction which are very dangerous to health few a days i saw a Rehab Center and also the Blog can you tell me what are the best treatments for the people who are addicted from these things. God bless them and they get well soon ....