Alcoholism : Drinking alcohol has become a style statement, a status code more than an addiction. However what people don’t realize is when they start searching for reasons to drink. There are a few sympthoms that can show a person is an addict and not a occasional user.

 

• Alcohol reduces your ability to be patient and provokes your willigness to violence, it provokes once anger. Regular fights and hussles can be taken as one sympthom
• Dilusional
• Avoiding occusions where one cannot drink, like a family gathering where drinking will not be possible
• Lack of sleep / sleeping too much
• Lack of appetite
• Person looking for reasons to drink again and again, or in higher quantities on a specific day like weekends.

Long term side effects of alcoholism

• Liver diseases
• Cancer
• Kidney failures
• Defects in the heir. Birth defects in kids . A alcoholics kid is more likely to be addicted to it as well.
• Heart failures
• Reduces immunity, a simple flu could become a complicated illness as the body looses the stamina and ability to fight with diseases

There are medicines that can be taken to help one to get out of this addiction. A well known medicine is chronal, also known as disimfirum. This is taken on Doctors advice only in a proportion of 250 mg and this makes drinking an unpleasant experience which in turn promotes the person to stay away from alcohol. 

Cocaine :- This is a nerve reliving drug. This makes all the nerves numb, and makes the person feel low. It creates a numb ness in which the person doesn’t experience anything at all and kind of goes to a state of trans. Cocaine is said to have the most faithful users, meaning a person who allows himself to get addicted to Cocaine does not come out of it easily and cannot live without cocaine, nor does he ever switch to any other kind of drug. Family members of a cocaine users suffer more than the user as the drug creats a lot of issues that make it difficult for the person to fit any social profile including family relations

Sympthoms

• Person tends to stay alone and away from people
• Depression
• Delusion
• Absence of any social life
• Changing jobs very frequently
• Sweating a lot
• Lack of interest in physical relations
• Sleeping too much,
• Disturbed sleep
• Expanded pupils
• Dandruff

Side effects

• Cocaine makes each and every nerve in the body go to sleep, when the same nerves begin to wake up the craving for cocaine starts, this is when the person feels like taking more drugs to put the nerves back to sleep.
• There could be sharp abdomine pain if cocaine is not given to the body
• Cocaine effects the brain, it interferes between the pleasure and depression creating glance in the brian and it reduce the water content there, due to the absence of the water the brain cannot communicate pleasure to the body, therefore anything anyeven that brings happiness becomes an alient feeling to the person taking cocaine and that feeling makes him very uncomfortable. Therefore to a person taking cocaine depression becomes a constant expression. And the only thing that becomes familiar and makes the person comfortable is when he is sad and depressed.
• Cocaine creats confusion as it highly effects the brain, the person quite offen then sometimes gets confused between the series of events and misplaced the order of things and eventually goes to not being able to make sence of what is happening around him
• Cocaine users develop a lot of physical problems, in Liver kidney and heart. Long time cocaine use burns their digestion system
• Pregnant ladies or ladies using cocaine eventually loose their ability to become mothers
• Cocaine creates a lot of heat in the body, this heat if trapped inside can cause heart attack or major stock
• Cocaine interference with the mans ability to ejaculate, there is reduction in sperm count

There are a lot of medicines that can help reduce creaving for cocaine however non can be taken without a doctors concent

Opiade Dependency: - This is a new technique that drug abusers have found to get high. Painkillers that contain codaine, which is a nerve relaxer that kills the feeling of pain. These pain killers even coughs syrups are abused (used in unprescribed and additional quantities to create the high effect)

Sympthoms

• Sweating
• Sleeping
• Delusional

Long term effects

• The person eventually becomes an addict to the pain killers
• They effect his mental decisions
• Eventually person cannot sleep and finds himself like a zambe sitting in one place
• Opiade dependency makes a person in active.
• Pain becomes a feeling that cannot be distinguished, person starts feeling helpless without medcines.

To every family that is dealing with any of these addictions. I wish them all the best and would like to advice them to be patient . The biggest task for anyone wanting to come out of these addictions is family support