Where the line between the reasonable intake of painful and unhealthy addiction? How not to step over a thin line and not become a drug addict?
Content
- Myth 1. If I stopped helping the former dosage or after the cancellation of the drug «broken», I am addict.
- Myth 2. If you take an anesthetic for a long time, addiction is developing
- Myth 3. Since the majority does not acquire dependence on painkillers, I can take them perfectly calmly
- Myth 4. It is better to endure pain than to risk and take painkillers that can cause addictive
- Myth 5. The most important task of anesthetic — remove
- Myth 6. I am a strong man, and I will not become drug addicted
- Myth 7. If my addiction develops, the doctor will appoint me a control
Sooner or later, everyone has to take pain with special drugs. Some of them are not needed, but for a long time, course. How to decide whether to take painful or not? Do you need to run to the doctor every time banal analgine? What is the probability of the appearance of dependence on painkillers, if they take them without a recipe?
Myth 1. If I stopped helping the former dosage or after the cancellation of the drug «broke», I am addict.
Addictive to substance is not characterized only by these symptoms. Anyone can become insensitive to a certain dose of the drug or meet with some degree of addiction, as well as coffee makers cannot live without a morning cup of strong coffee. But this does not mean painful, narcotic dependence.
What is addiction?
Many people are incorrectly used by the term «addiction», denoting them physical addictive to substance. Western narcologists adapt the interpretation of the term for ordinary people: «Addiction — This is a chronic disease that appears due to the compulsive use of a narcotic substance that causes harm or causeing dysfunction of any kind; At the same time, a person does not stop using the substance, despite the conscious and obvious harm».
Other doctors add a drug forces to subordinate a majority of life: time spent, strength, money and other resources for obtaining a new dose. Physical dependence symptoms are different. It can be both part of the drug addiction and the independent component of human behavior. But it does not cause an obsessive idea to get a new portion of the medicine and does not prevent a person to live as usual.
If after stopping the reception of the drug you appear signs of cancellation syndrome, this does not mean you addict. This is just a signal that you have stopped the reception too sharply and you need a medical advice, how to abandon the drug gently and painlessly.
Myth 2. If you take an anesthetic for a long time, addiction is developing
Most patients who have discharged an anesthetic for long term are not found with dependence, while drugs are taken in accordance with the specified dosage.
If you start taking them more often than it is prescribed, to increase the dose or seeking recipes for potent drugs to different doctors, without informing them that you are already taking the drug, alert: such behavior can talk about dependence. As mentioned earlier, you start becoming a drug addict if «relationship» with substance cause vital problems, but you continue to accept it and not looking for help.
Identify dependence on painkillers not easy. It is much easier to diagnose drug addiction when a man indulges «Club» Drugs like marijuana or cocaine. If a person close to you takes prescribed medicines that take pain, you will never really know, whether it is experiencing stronger painful feelings than before, and whether the former dosage really does not help him. Symptoms of severe pain and drug dependence are partly similar: in both cases there is something in the brain, forcing a person to look for a new dose.
Of course, strong painkillers — Preparations are unsafe. That is why you should never take them without a recipe.
Myth 3. Since the majority does not acquire dependence on painkillers, I can take them perfectly calmly
Even if we are talking about banal analgin or ibuprofen, the uncontrolled reception of painful, especially regular, extremely undesirable. There is nothing terrible or shameful to reach the doctor and clarify which painkiller, in which dosage, with what frequency you need to take with head, muscular or other «Casual» Poles. Especially since any substances in certain doses are potentially fraught with addiction.
Especially dangerous opioids that can not be taken isolated. They can be used only in the composition of complex therapy, which can include both other drugs and psychological support.
Some doctors, prescribing a drug capable of causing addiction, offer patients a trial period to look at the body's reaction. And only making sure the safety of the substance, the doctor will appoint a long-term treatment.
If you have heard friends and relatives that «well helps this anesthetic», check with your doctor if you can take it. Unfortunately, most often we not only do not apply for medical opinions, but do not even read the instructions and the more not paying attention to contraindications, on the paragraph «Carefully...» and on the list of side effects. Earning incomprehensible symptoms, we are wondering where they came from, and we go to the reception with a complaint, in which the name is unlikely to sound «Safe» painful, which we recently ate in hand.
Myth 4. It is better to endure pain than to risk and take painkillers that can cause addictive
The pain is not needed. She will not just cause extra suffering, but will inevitably affect all your life, making you a man irritable, who are trying to avoid surrounding. Pain signals about problems and should make you go to the doctor.
Of course, the cause of pain must be found and eliminated. But while diagnosis is carried out until the doctor picks up treatment while the disease begins to leave, you will need painkillers. Afraid dependency? Tell a doctor about your fear. Some patients stop the reception of painful from fear of becoming drug addicts. However, the pain they
have to tolerate, can ruin life stronger than physical addiction to the drug.
No extreme position — both a panic fear of drugs and a negligence attitude to recipes and recommendations for their reception. If you do not have medical education and you do not understand why you are appointed just such a drug and it is in this dosage, trust the specialist. And at the same time, ask to explain the mechanism of operation of the active substance.
Myth 5. The most important task of anesthetic — remove
Pain relief is important, but it is not all that makes a painful agent.
When a doctor prescribes an anesthetic, he seeks not just to drown out pain, but also restore the patient's functionality. Functionality — This ability of a person does not depend on the disease and pain, continue the usual life, communicate and enjoy every day.
In other words, painful not just remove pain. They return life to normal. If the reception of painkillers does not change anything in a person's life, except as reduces suffering, this treatment is strange and it is unlikely to be appointed by a doctor. The task of a specialist — return to the patient what he lost from the beginning of the disease.
Myth 6. I am a strong man, and I will not become drug addicted
Dependence has nothing to do with the power of will, this is not a moral category when you decide what is good or bad, and choose how to do. Addiction — This is a chronic disease, and some people genetically arranged to him more than others.
Risk factor in the development of addiction — heredity. If your family has the history of alcoholism, game or drug addiction, or you know yourself as a person of fondant or quickly losing control, you need to be extremely careful with potent drugs.
The extremely small number of people who take painkillers are sent to the pharmacy with the recipe, even if they are going to buy non-receptible drugs. We sincerely think: if the medicine can be bought free, it is safe. But this is a mistake. There is no safe medical preparations.
Myth 7. If my addiction develops, the doctor will appoint me a control
No doctor wants the patient to appear dependence on the drug. Moreover, the doctor may not be qualifications for the treatment of drug addiction. Unfortunately, only narrow specialists work with dependencies — Narcologists and psychotherapists.
Therefore, do not pin down to the doctor who prescribes you a painful, unrealistic hopes. Take medications strictly in accordance with the recipe. If it seems to you that the drug stopped helping, do not increase the dosage, and immediately go to the reception and discuss everything that worries you.
