Drugs & Addiction : Signs of Drug Addictions

The signs of drug addiction revolve around two key components, which are tolerance and withdrawal, but more things to observe are the time spent purchasing the drug, consuming the drug or withdrawing from the drug. Identify the signs of drug addiction with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on drug abuse.

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[MasterSysop]

Your not Dave Thomas . He makes burgers!

[bass109]

Jesus christ frees people from drug addictions! :) Jesus loves you all forever

[AllAboutAddiction]

@waypor1 - I have to disagree about the withdrawal aspect. There are many aspects completely unrelated to withdrawal that play an important part in ceasing drug use. If withdrawal was the issue, why would a drug like vivitrol work for alcoholics? It doesn't affect GABA transmission and yet it cuts relapse probability by half... Some drugs, like heroin, have terrible withdrawal symptoms so it can seem like that's the main factors, but people who go through detox medically relapse readily.

[waypor1]

@adij76 Its all about getting over the physical withdrawl, but also the desire to recover based upon seeing the benefits

[PsychotherapyAssoc]

Very informative.

[EenterE]

Interesting, My brotherinlaw died at 40,from this overdose.

[miller2558]

@adij76 I don't think he's necessarily saying that tolerance and withdrawal lead to addiction, he's saying that tolerance and withdrawal are the key components of addiction, meaning those components are frequently associated with addiction.

[adij76]

I like the overall level of knowledge shared by this video. However, the idea that tolerance and withdrawal are the leading factors in addiction is pretty out of date.

There are some neurological adaptations related to repeated drug use that have little to do with tolerance or withdrawal and yet are likely to lead to addiction.

[adij76]

Overall, I like the level of knowledge in this video, but the concept that tolerance and withdrawal are the two major things in addiction is a bit old. Even many drugs with relatively mild withdrawal symptoms (like many stimulants) can cause some serious dependence. We now know that completely aside from tolerance, there are some serious neurological changes that take place in the brain with repeated drug use that likely lead to addiction.