I am being treated for a suicide attempt about 6 weeks ago. Therapy has been go well. However, my doctor is a little harder to convince and is putting me on high dosages of drugs. I am supposed to gradually build up to the recommended dose but my therapist says if I feel fine on the current dose do not up the dose; I agree with her. After all she is the one that spends the most time with me. Who would be best served to give me the advice?
Date : March 2nd, 2010Category : UncategorizedAuthor : Editor9 Comments
Regardless of whether you’re in a relationship or not, hence cheating on someone or a single person. Is there such a thing as sex addiction? Tiger Woods believes he can overcome his sex addiction, but do you believe it is a problem or is it just a case that he enjoyed it and thought he could get away with it?
Is it the world’s last taboo? That it is still looked down upon when people enjoy sleeping with lots of people?
Great to hear your views and opinions on this subject.
Date : March 1st, 2010Category : UncategorizedAuthor : EditorNo comments
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There are several teen alcohol abuse treatment centers in almost every part of the US nowadays. While this shows the concerns of the states in curbing their teenage alcoholism problem, it is also indicative of how intensive the problem is. In any case, the teen alcohol abuse treatment centers are doing a good job in lessening the problem. They are providing all the care and comfort that is needed for this age group to come out of their alcohol dependencies.
However, the teen alcohol abuse treatment centers also face several problems when it comes to implementing their treatment procedures. Most of their problems stem from the fact that the patients they handle are too young to undergo treatment. This is what makes things difficult for them. Most of the centers have devised ways out from the problems they face, but one fact stands: it is more difficult to mete out teen alcohol abuse treatment than it is for adults. More resources need to be expended and the recovery is much more distant than for adults.
Here are the problems that most teen alcohol abuse treatment centers face and the methods that are used by them to counter these difficulties.
Ignorance about the Addiction
One of the prime problems when treating teenagers is that they do not know what an addiction really means. They are not aware of the repercussions. Most of them might have gotten into the addiction because of peer pressure or because they think the addiction is an escape route from some kind of problem or difficult situation they are facing in life. For this reason they will not be too willing to come out of the addiction. Their denials will be quite strong. It will take a lot of care and counseling to create the awareness of their condition in them so that they can agree for treatment.
To make this happen, the treatment centers will take assistance from the families of the patients and chalk out a proper intervention program. An intervention specialist, known as an interventionist, will be appointed to guide the families on how to go about this process. The interventionist will carefully train the family members to prepare speeches that can motivate and convince the patients to get into treatment. This can be quite a long process and needs to be very sensitively handled. But if it does not work, there is the risk that the patient will not respond to the treatment and that would be a failure for the program.
Possibility of Strong Dependencies
Though teenagers will be with their addictive habits for a much lesser amount of time than adults who are into addictions, their conditions are more difficult to handle because of their tender age. Teens who have caught a habit of a substance have done so at an age when their body and mind are still developing. An addictive substance in the body at this age will create a very strong dependency. That is the reason teenagers can get addicted to a substance much quicker than adults can.
Substance abuse statistics show that people who get hooked to a substance before they are eighteen years of age have four times higher chances to develop an addiction for it than people who start consuming the substance after they have reached twenty five years. That is the reason addictions in youngsters are much more difficult to treat. They will experience very difficult withdrawal processes if they are made to abstain from the substance and this can cause them to give up the recovery process midway.
Treatment centers targeted at teen alcohol abuse recovery try to mellow down the curative process for their young patients in the initial stages and then begin stepping up the treatment. By doing this, they are acclimatizing the bodies of the youngsters to the treatment and are ensuring that the body begins responding to the medication.
Possibility of Secondary Addictions
It is possible that teenagers will want to try some other chemically addictive substance soon. This happens because the effect of an alcohol abuse can wear off soon and then the person will want to try a stronger substance of addiction. Most youngsters may have even tried other substances. In several parts of the nation, methamphetamine is a very popularly used substance by the youth. Methamphetamine is also very highly addictive, much more than alcohol is. If there is such a secondary addiction, then the treatment process needs to be much more stringent. A completely different and aggressive medication pattern will be used for the treatment by the abuse centers.
