The dangers of Drugs
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Everyone is familiar with warnings about drug use and the danger of drugs, but in spite of all of the information on television and in the classrooms, the truth about the danger of drugs is many times lost in the attempts to create fear around taking drugs.
Generally speaking, all drugs are alien to the body and create the same physiological effects as taking a poison. Since they are not a food source, the body reacts to drugs by attacking the substances and doing all it can to remove it from the blood stream. Immediately after taking the drugs, adrenalin is pumped into the system to increase the activities of all of the organs that will eliminate these substances; the lungs, liver and kidneys in particular. If the ingestion of drugs continues and the blood levels of the drugs continues to increase, the body will then slow down all of its functions in an attempt to keep these poisons from reaching the brain. At this time, the cleansing organs are still working on getting the drugs our to the body and, since this process isn’t as effective as needed, the body pushes these substances into dormant fat tissue.
This process lowers the levels of drugs in the blood stream and gives the body ability to retrieve and metabolize the drugs at a latter time. Persons that use drugs daily will become saturated with these substances in their fat tissue and if they try to stop using, the body will retrieve these stored drugs which causes drug effected feeling long after a person has quit taking them. This is the reason behind many relapses. Just when the recovering person is doing well and not taking drugs, he begins to start exercising in an attempt to restore his physical strength. However, to his amazement and the disappointment of those around him, he is defeated by relapsing to drug use. It is this phenomenon that has been the basis behind the idea that addiction is a chronic and progressive disease.
The body recognizes the danger of drugs by responding to them as it would any poison. Besides drugs being poisonous to the body, the effects they have on the personality and character of the person change lives forever and could be considered even more dangerous.
First of all, one’s personal moral code is violated when they take something into their bodies that changes their ability to choose between right and wrong. Continual violation of one’s morals will cause a lowering of self-esteem, which leads to a lowering of one’s self-expectations and goals and, if this process continues, it will lead one on a downward spiral, which will make the use of drugs a necessity.
The person cannot face themselves and the things that they have done to themselves and others. Everyone is familiar with the minor and major crimes caused by those on drugs, but it is hard for most of us to realize how difficult it is to reverse these inner personal changes once a person has been living a drug-using life style for some time. All drugs are taken to relieve pain and discomfort, so when a person decides to change his life and live without drugs, he is continually craving a drug that will make this transition less painful, and, more often than not, the person fails in their attempt to stay drug free.
This cycle becomes even more difficult when the drug user is a youth and hasn’t yet developed a comfortable and predictable decision making process. Therefore, the real danger of drugs is their ability to hijack lives, at shockingly early ages, leaving a person to face a lifetime which is much more difficult than it would have ever been without these circumstances. If left unchecked, drugs will destroy the potential of our youth and our society.
If you are looking for a treatment program for a loved one whose potentials are not being fulfilled, it is imperative to investigate the program’s ability to repair this character damage through a process of helping the person to confront their “crimes” and to find personal forgiveness. Without this component, the chances of staying off of drugs are very slim.
Experts say the biophysical programs do this process better than any other modality of treatment.
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