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Drug Addiction is for drug addicts, family ofaddicts or friends or anyone who needs and want help to break theaddiction. This apps is created to help the world and also arm youwith knowledge about drugs and how you can deal with it.

Several emotional or psychological reasons may drive you intotaking drugs. At times it is mere curiosity that propels you todevelop drug addiction over time. Drug addiction refers to thecompulsive use of psychoactive drugs to such a level at which theuser of drugs has no other way out and continues to use it.

Though drugs addiction like opium have been common sincehistorical times it is in recent times that the problem has beenexacerbated significantly. This is mainly due to the cultivation ofplants yielding drugs, advancements in biochemistry andimprovements in means of getting access to drugs. The introductionof purified forms of active biological agents and the synthesis ofnew substances like methamphetamine has made drugs more widespread.Clinically, the word ‘addiction’ has been replaced by the word‘dependency’ in relation to drugs.

It may be noted that not all persons are equally prone toaddiction. Some persons are psychologically or genetically morepredisposed to drug addiction. Again, some kinds of drugs get thebetter of some particular types of persons more easily. Similarly,the manner of treatment and method of recovery from addiction varywidely according to the types of drugs, amount of drugs, durationof drug addiction, medical complications and social necessities ofthe patient.

There is the 12-step program among the many recovery methods.Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous are prominent examplesincluded herein. These are popularly used for a variety ofaddictions concerning the individual addicted and the family of theindividual. Then there are the substance-abuse rehabilitationcenters that frequently offer a residential treatment program forthe seriously addicted and strive to isolate the drug addicts fromother drug users and drug dealers.

The cognitive-behavior therapy, rational-emotive theory or othertypes of psychological behavior modification methods are employedin the treatment of drug addiction. Replacement drugs likemethadone are also used. This methadone is in itself a drug but inorder to reduce dependency on stronger drugs like opium it proveshelpful. Acupuncture is also a treatment of choice that helpsalleviate drug addiction symptoms.

Carrying out the suitable treatment from the various treatmentsavailable can bring about recovery from drug addiction. The objectis to somehow bring about abstinence from the various addictivesubstances called drugs.

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