• April 28, 2024

When someone has a addiction , you can think that at the desired time you can leave it. Not only that, it can also happen that even family members or friends think that having willpower is enough to stop consuming any drug .

Today it is known that whoever consumes drug have a disease addictive and must receive pharmacological treatment and combine it with cognitive-behavioral therapy to achieve a better result.

This is due to the fact that commonly an addict abandons the treatment, because he experiences what is known as craving or intense desire for drug or the so-called withdrawal syndrome, which occurs when you stop using it.

Impossible to leave?

The doctor Óscar Prospero García, author of the book Las addictions, edited by the General Directorate for the Dissemination of Science of the UNAM, explains that "this disease can be acquired with the frequent use of substances of abuse; However, in most cases, patients are born with a vulnerability that will inevitably lead them to addiction or dependence on substances, if the behavior is not prevented. "

Add that this vulnerability is associated with a load genetics inherited and that stressful experiences in the early stages of life can change the expression of genes, which causes subjects to become vulnerable to consumption and addiction to drugs

He also researcher of the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM notes that drugs act as a false neurotransmitter, so they affect communication between one or several neurons through its receivers. Some of them activate the release of dopamine, substance involved in the feeling of pleasure that some of drugs

Drug use causes brain changes that can be reflected in the behavior, in addition to having effects on the organism that can cause disability or even death.

The specialist points out that the functional changes that occur in different brain regions due to the consumption of drugs, the damages to the organism due to an addiction of substances and comorbidity with different psychiatric disorders.

These are fundamental to recognize that in the matter of addictions the most efficient way of prevention is information, especially aimed at the adolescent population.

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