Addiction Clinics

In my over ten years working in the field of traumatology and rehabilitation of addicts, I see addiction as a multidimensional condition affecting all aspects of an individual's life. Biology, psychology, their social network, their educational and career aspirations, as well as the spiritual dimension of their existence. I see it has its origin in the DNA of the individual, predisposing to its development in some other conditions related to psychologial and the environment. I see it is chronic stress injury related, and the absence of stable relationships and education, especially but not exclusively, with primary relatives early in life. I see it is related to the absence of a model or a guide to help navigate through internal responses to stressful situations and disturbing or the environment, and being guided to do with the strategies of non- Violence. I see the filter and isolate the nature of those experiences sending messages to the brain that lead to the development of the emotional and physical, that the two are related, and the human need to face pain. On the one hand I see addiction as a conditioned adaptation to pain resulting unbareable chronic unmet needs.

Dr. Gabor Mate, a physician working with people struggling to live with and overcome alcohol and drug addiction on the Downtown Eastside, an area in the poorest postal code in Canada, wrote in his book very very good " In the realm of hungry ghosts: Encounters with Addiction, "the addiction always comes pain, either felt openly or hidden in the unconscious. They are emotional anesthetic. It goes on to say" Not all the dependencies are rooted in trauma, but I think they can all be attributed to a painful experience. A wounded man is at the core of all addictive behaviors.

With a chronic addictive behavior, over time the poorly healed can lead to things like emotional development stopped, arrested and professional development of its attachment to failure and underearning, fragmented relationships, ill health and well-being, spiritual disconnection from self and the world around them. The result is to act badly scarred by the violence against oneself or another or the community property. The latter of which can lead to imprisonment and loss of freedom. Chronic addiction can lead to loss of time, and with it the loss of opportunities to cultivate a life of dignity. Addiction devastates and destroys the lives of those who seek and those who love those who do. How many of us are not affected by the life of someone who is involved in addictive behavior? At such behavior captured in yours?

Before talking about what you can do about addiction, we must be sure we are talking about her addiction. Use of the substance dependence as an example, a behavior is considered as a dependency if it meets three or more of the following 12 months:

• Tolerance: is taking longer to achieve the same effect, or even who has less effect.
• Removal: Either withdrawal symptoms characteristic of the substance, or do something to avoid or relieve withdrawal symptoms.
• Usage: the amount used or the duration of use is greater than what was expected.
• Control: is tried several times to control the use or reduce use.
• Time: Either to aid the recovery of the use, or attempt to obtain the substance use, is how a considerable amount of time gets spent.
• Blinkers: either by reducing or abandoning important work, social activities and / or recreational activity.