Diagnosis of Addiction
How can one know that he/she is in the grasp of addiction? The bigger question here is, does someone who is using drugs want to know the truth? The majority of people who are using always live under the false impression that they are not in the claws of addiction. They believe, “I can quit whenever I want, and this habit of mine is not hurting my life in any way.” Moreover, this false confidence makes them do drugs aggressively. Generally, about 10 percent of suffering addicts are sensible to diagnose themselves, so most of the addicts go through deaddiction therapy only after being not able to function properly physically or sanely and sometimes sanely.
A large portion of people seeking deaddiction therapy is mostly referred by family or friends. Most of them are bought in for deaddiction are unwilling at the beginning and are coerced into the process by family and loved ones. Generally, it is always late when the problem of addiction is acknowledged by the family because it only gets noticed when an addicted person starts to show physical symptoms and anti-social behavior. This delay can cost the deaddiction process to take a much longer time and in addition, the risk of overdose and severe disease also increases.
Here are some significant points by which one can detect the disease of addiction at an early period and consult a deaddiction center for therapy. Getting to know about addiction problems can help you immensely by eliminating the longer therapy time and so cutting the cost of therapy, and more importantly reducing the impact of addiction on physical and mental health.
Therefore, please look for these conditions in yourself or for someone you care about:
• Consuming the substance in larger amounts. If the person consumes the substance secretly, the family members can also judge by excessive smell (in the case of alcohol) or by after-effects of the drug.
• Failing to fulfill social obligations.
• The decline in performance at work or school.
• Giving up hobbies and other recreational activities. Avoid going to places where the substance cannot be consumed or is difficult to consume.
• Relationships getting disturbed by consumption.
• Missing important events due to the influence of the substance. The longer period of the hangover.
• Anti-social behavior in public places. Extreme rage when someone tries to stop them from consuming.
• Increase in health-related problems like stomach problems, headaches, body pain, etc.
• Lying to the physician about the cause of the problem, and lying about many things.
• Withdrawal symptoms like sweating, shaking of hands, and nausea.
• Continuous consumption even after health and relationship problems.
Even, if a few things or situations mentioned above are true and happening then the person should consult the deaddiction center right away. Coercion is sometimes necessary, if your loved one or family member is showing these signs and is unwilling to take any help or avoid any kind of confrontation, then coercion is the right thing to do, even if it makes the suffering person angry.
Deaddiction centers have capable and experienced staff to deal with unwilling patients and after a week or two; they begin to understand that this coercion was for their own interest.