ADDICTED TO ADDICTION

JONARD A. TAURO, RN

QUESTION.....

Are we addicted to ADDICTION?

there are so many things to be addicted to,

Narcotic drugs such as heroin

OTHER ROUTE:

• chocolate,

POTATO CHIPS, THE GYM, BUNGEE JUMPING, TOBACCO

OVER-THE-COUNTER PAINKILLERS, CAFFEINE, GOLF, SEX, WORK,

PORNOGRAPHY,

INTERNET AND TWITTER OR FACEBOOK

•addictions in the sense of brain chemistry, they’re commonly merely (bad) habits.

•But, while it might be facile to say that someone who eats a large amount of chocolate or drinks a lot of coffee is somehow an addict, addiction is much more complicated than that.

•They are habits(addiction) to which those who yield (dependent) feel they have surrendered.

•Even, the notion that simply using a drug, whether cocaine, alcohol, or whatever means an inevitable descent into addiction is something of a myth.

Many, many people “use” without ever becoming addicted to their “drug” of choice.

Whether that’s a spin on the overtime hamster wheel, the exercise bike or the roulette wheel.

Example!

•Some habits consume more of time, money and concentration than any other activity in which they take part. But, even then taking their “drug” to excess is not necessarily their being addicted.

SO, WHAT IS ADDICTION

•psychological addiction or physiological addiction

•Not all of those who indulge in a drug habitually are addicted but all addicts use their drug habitually.

•Addiction tolerance

•Many users keep indulging their habit to avoid the unpleasantness of not taking the drug rather than the pleasure of taking it.

•Addiction is not just about the ups and downs, and more importantly it is not an affliction of the down and out and/or the rich and famous.

• IT MIGHT BE THAT THOSE ARE THE PEOPLE WITH WHOM THE TABLOIDS FLIRT THE MOST. HOWEVER, REACHING A POSITION IN WHICH AN UNCONTROLLABLE CHEMICAL IMBALANCE IN THE BRAIN CONSTANTLY URGES A PERSON TO SEEK THEIR FIX, IS SOMETHING FROM WHICH NO ONE IS IMMUNE.

• WE ALL HAVE OUR BAD HABITS AND IRREPRESSIBLE URGES. BUT, THE FLIPPANCY WITH WHICH TERMS SUCH AS WORKAHOLIC OR SEX ADDICT ARE BANDIED ABOUT IN THE TABLOID MEDIA BELIES A MUCH MORE INSIDIOUS PROBLEM.

•The problem that the disease we refer to as addiction destroys lives in ways that are way beyond such flippancy.

•Addiction does seem to go hand in hand with certain mood and anxiety disorders. It is wholly unclear as to whether or not one leads to the other or indeed whether there is a genuine causal link in either direction

• complex relationship between one’s genetic inheritance and one’s environment

•Terminology of addiction is applied to problems that seem not to be related to addiction but are simply bad habits.