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Cocaine use, powerful psycho-stimulating brain has not stopped growing since the 60 twentieth century, causing a complex public health problem.

However, despite the severity of the effects of cocaine consumption elorganismo cause, especially in the brain, the dependence on this substance is not always medically.

In many cases, lack of effective medical treatment of cocaine is about in the past it was considered that cocaine withdrawal did not cause much obvious physical symptoms as those produced by heroin addiction or alcohol. This suggested that cocaine was not addictive and that therefore, the abuse did not require treatment. The truth is that today reveal the fundamental changes neurobiological evidence that cocaine produced in the brain.

The idea of ??alleged leniency of the effects of cocaine, has contributed to still have misconceptions and archaic about what is addiction, beliefs that prevent this disease is treated like a disease. Yet for many people addiction is a matter of personal choice, that is, the addict would be because he wants to take drugs, or because it has enough character to say no, so he does not stop using drugs is because it has no force will. Behind these conceptions is the belief that leaving the chemical addiction is entirely in the hands (at will) of the addicted person.

But the reality is that addiction, regardless of the decision and the will, is a disease that escapes to a large extent, control of the addict. When a person uses cocaine, the brain undergoes physical changes immediately . Some of these changes disappear in the short term-as euphoria, talkativeness, sense of strength or excitement, while others are maintained long term, causing changes that lead to the addicted person to lose control of his life.

Cocaine acts breaking into the brain’s communication system . This drug attacks, among other brain functions, the reward system, flooding the circuit with dopamine-neurotransmitter that regulates feelings of pleasure, among other functions. This causes also a feeling of euphoria, a notice indicating that brain really important and satisfying is happening and to be repeated again, like all the activities being reported. This creates a new communication channel brain will become stronger as they consume cocaine. As a result, for the brain of a person addicted to cocaine have a normal operation, you need to constantly activate the reward system, and the only way it has to do is repeat consumption.

This implies that the addict can hardly control this desire because of brain damage produced by cocaine, and what is worse, lose the ability to self-assess the damage that cocaine use is causing. As a result, it is extremely difficult to redirect their behavior toward the abandonment of the drug and to a healthier lifestyle.

Therefore, addiction is a brain disease. A disease that is treatable and recovery there . Today, thanks to research and new health technologies, more and more is known about the functioning of cocaine on the brain and the effects it produces, which allows developing treatments for cocaine using appropriate drugs to the addict recovers control of their lives and so that it can cure addiction to this drug.

The snuff is nowadays one of the substances toxic to most lay unconscious expectations is possibly due to the economic interests of the tobacco industry and social permissiveness for use. ‘s success is based on consumption that serves as a placebo (or delusion) that helps them cope with emotional life. The human being as an integral part of nature, is subject to the same forces that govern it: the life and death. Both forces constitute us as individuals and their management is undoubtedly a consequence of our personality. Smoking, we all know, is a self-destructive act, since their physical consequences are proven, but there are a large number of smokers in spite of the information about the damage this action. It is common that during the funeral of someone who died from lung cancer as a result of their smoking, attendees and even closer to the deceased relatives smoke, ignoring the most obvious consequences of their addiction at the time. The act of smoking is, in this circumstance, a process of identification with the deceased and also a comfort that goes beyond the death instinct.

The man fights from the first moment of his life against death, life is colored by the way it shuns the act or fight the inevitable ending his days. However, their struggle is not always allied with life activities, sometimes self-destructive activities and choose their way of life or, rather, to survive death. Any addiction is an attempt to survive in certain circumstances and smoking is one of many addictions. From the field psychoanalytic note that smoking presents oral fixations on the stage of his life. This stage begins at birth and prevails about two years, during which time poking things in their mouths and so are known.

In addition to things or objects, the baby is fed through the oral cavity so that its vital energy is deposited in this organ to feed, grow and see the world. The activity of sucking or sucking, in addition to being an innate reflex, also integrates emotions. When the baby drinks the milk, is also eating and sucking the affection with which it is fed. In this context, smoking is an oral activity in addition to meeting the physical requirements of nicotine in the body, meets emotional functions for the smoker who could be compared to a baby with his mouth attached to a pacifier or nipple, satisfying emotional needs yesteryear. Just as the child who acts out and quiets only with the pacifier in his mouth, smoking fulfills the same function in the adult. Read the rest of this entry »