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addiction and recovery question by StrawberryFizz: Good films about drug addiction?
Im looking for films similar to Requiem for a Dream, and Basketball Diaries

I really liked Trainspotting too, so i’m looking for something that portrays the drug addiction/recovery realistically, without all the fake glamour some films add.

Thanks

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Answer by Rachel
thirteen..=)

Caffeine Addiction And Chronic Fatigue Recovery

Article by Amy Thomas

In spite of being a constituent in products commonly used for energy, caffeine over-stimulates the adrenal glands, which only causes the illusion of an increase in energy due to increasing the hormone adrenaline. Over time, excessive use of caffeinated substances will cause an adrenal addiction and the glands will produce less adrenaline naturally until they no longer produce at all, which will lead to permanent fatigue since the adrenals are not known to regenerate.

Those addicted to caffeine are on a dangerous downhill slope and need to take decisive action because it will only get harder to recover later. Naturally with everyone having to run around as a ‘human doing’ rather than as a ‘human being’ just to make ends meet in society today, the last thing most people have the energy for is to break a habit.

Breaking habits definitely requires substantially more energy to overcome them than it does to maintain the habit, but almost all of this is mental–a purely mental battle where one generally surrenders to routines rather than muster the strength or courage to break through to a new level. Mental fatigue is becoming more commonplace and it is a huge factor in the overall energy of the body itself, so even thoughts about change that will require more energy can be tiresome for an individual with chronic fatigue syndrome.

The general response to the thought of quitting caffeine is that it is needed for energy, however admittedly dysfunctional that may be, and it would be too difficult to survive the day without it. So, it is actually the crystallized fear of fatigue that encodes the belief that one cannot overcome it or do without it. However, there is a way to overcome fatigue, particularly chronic fatigue while recovering from long-term caffeine addiction.

Effective caffeine elimination should be done gradually if it is to be a smooth transition without putting the body into shock. A common side effect of strict elimination after extended periods of use is headaches from caffeine withdrawal, which is also a clear sign of the addiction in the body. Generally, a gradual period over a month or two is a reasonable goal to set for complete transition away from caffeinated substances.

The most common culprits for caffeine intake are coffee, tea (excluding herbal teas), sodas, and chocolate, which are not usually issues if enjoyed in moderation. However, when significant amounts are consumed daily, the body is thrown from its natural state of balance within the physiology of its physical and energetic systems.

Contributing factors exacerbated by caffeine addiction as a compounding factor are surface breathing, hormone imbalances, and a lowered immune system. Concentration on these three main areas while weaning off of caffeine can make the transition much smoother for most people. Treatment of a condition is often formulaic, targeting the combination of root stresses responsible for its existence.

Surface breathing is how most people breathe, which is too shallow, and changing breathing patterns requires a conscious effort. It is well worth the discipline to breathe deeply and efficiently because deeper breath oxygenates the blood more completely and facilitates the removal of toxins from the blood stream. Increased oxygenation is a major factor that improves all of the bodily systems, organs, and vital forces necessary for fully functioning holistic health.

Hormone imbalances in the thyroid, pineal and pituitary glands can be contributing factors in fatigue-related issues. The hormones in these glands are easily imbalanced by increased adrenaline in the system, thus their functions are interrupted by continual caffeine consumption. If allowed to continue for long periods of time these imbalances can be completely disruptive to many systems of the body and its energies.

The immune system can be strengthened by the above mentioned breathing exercises to help with the elimination of toxins, however, when the immune system has been suppressed for long periods of time it is necessary to take purifying and immune-enhancing substances to bring the body back into harmonious balance. Getting proper rest, enough vitamins and minerals, and drinking enough water are the cornerstones of restoring the body to health, in addition to taking herbal extracts that have tonic actions on specific systems.

While herbal extracts are a part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle within alternative medicine, they should never be used to the exclusion of qualified care from a licensed physician. Both modalities are important for balance and seeking out a physician that is open to alternative therapies is worth the effort it takes to find one.

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addiction and recovery question by Belinda: How long does drug addiction recovery take?
I have a friend who wants to change his life, and the only way he can do it is to get away from where he is right now. I have said he can come and stay with me (under strict stipulation that he does not have drugs in my home and he does go into treatment – both things he really wants to do, among other things) but how long should this process take? He was taking coke about once a week before, so what should I expect? Will it be the same level of need forever, or should it get easier and after how long? When can I expect him to be a normal person again?

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Answer by Meg M
Addiction recovery takes a lifetime. The initial urges will go down anywhere from a few weeks to years later, depending on the person.

Define ‘normal’? Going through a process like this changes a person severely and they are not likely to be like most of the people around them nor are they ever going to be the person that they were before. If you aren’t prepared to handle the changes you need to find somebody or someplace that is.

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Recovery From Drug Addiction

I am glad folks are curious and searching for information on recovery from drug addiction.

Recovery is an emotional, physical, cognitive, and spiritual process, and happens inside forever, once the commitment to such a powerful change is made. It is wrenching to change all those habits at once. Eventually though, with new programs installed in your brain and habits established, it is possible to maintain a maintenance regimen.

External changes like a new job, or a new car, or a new relationship are sometimes used to measure drug addiction recovery, because there are only feeling and thinking metrics to judge the internal process, until one has some experience with that internal process.

After hitting your bottom, most folks are not sure how much credibility they can place in their own thoughts and perceptions, since those are the thoughts and perceptions which got them into trouble in the first place.

So perhaps the first step is the physical detox, which can take some time depending on the drug of choice.

At this stage, supervision by a medical expert may be very important.

During this stage the body, which is designed to function in a very healthy way, and heal itself if given the correct fuel, will begin to right itself, including resuming neurogenesis, which is the growth of new brain cells.

New brain cells will be in great demand as the neurons recalibrate and close up receptors which were opened to handle the metabolization of recreational chemicals. It will take some time for the brain to replace the wear and tear, but rest assured, it is working to build new cells.

As the brain rights itself physically, then thinking patterns can begin to be addressed, which involves another critical capacity of the human brain, neuroplasticity.

Neuroplasticity is a term used to describe the brains ability to rewire and reconnect itself in a ceaseless search for more effective connections and more effective circuits for maintaining survival behavior.

At this point, someone in treatment, or someone who has sought out AA, NA, or another 12 step program or counseling will begin to address the thinking components of recovery, which involve the neuroplasticity of the human brain.

Sharon Begley in her book, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, speaks to how attention to what we are paying attention to changes your brain.

This is an excerpt from an article that she wrote for the Wall Street Journal;

“Through attention, UCSF’s Michael Merzenich and a colleague wrote, “We choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work, we choose who we will be the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form on our material selves.”

The discovery that neuroplasticity cannot occur without attention has important implications. If a skill becomes so routine you can do it on autopilot, practicing it will no longer change the brain. And if you take up mental exercises to keep your brain young, they will not be as effective if you become able to do them without paying much attention.”

This is where thinking about the steps of your program, for example, begin to pay off. There is no end to that process, but the practice itself changes your brain in a healthy, neuroplastic way.

In fact, a key component of healthy recovery from drug addiction is a healthy brain, and a healthy brain means you need to take care of the pillars of brain fitness, getting enough physical exercise, proper nutrition, including omega 3 fatty acids to keep your neurons supple and flexible, for good signal sending and receiving, good sleep, stress management (step 11?), and novel learning experiences, which certainly includes puzzling over how to create your recovery.

But remember, you can enhance and encourage neurogenesis and neuroplasticity by attending to the pillars of brain fitness, which actually closely parallel the pillars of kidney and liver health, for example.

The key piece of recovery from drug addiction is to manage your thinking.

Capture and dispute automatic negative thoughts as Daniel Amen, MD, describes them, simply because it is your brain and you can do this.

In a sense automatic negative thoughts are like computer viruses. You install your 12 step filter, for example, and reboot the brain as you become aware of each negative thought. Soon you will be repeating thoughts which leave you feeling good, simply because you can and now your neuroplasticity is becoming effective in a positive way.

Change the thought, change the feeling, and soon your brain is moving towards a very healthy and relaxing pattern of thinking and internal chemistry.

Remember though, that we process sensory data and create thoughts about sensory data continuously, so this is an ongoing process.

Enhanced Neuroplasticity From Computerized Brain Fitness Programs

One of the pillars of brain fitness is novel learning experiences, which for a recovering addict certainly involves learning new skills, but for others might involve learning a new language or new musical instrument, which challenges the neuroplastic capacity of your brain in a healthy way.

If you do not have time for a new language or instrument, there are a number of computerized neuroplasticity enhancing tools available.

addiction and recovery question by Alice: Please help me understand the statistics regarding methamphetamine addiction to help my own recovery.?
i used meth for 10 years. 6 months ago I sought a behavioral therapist and started recovery. About a month ago I became severely depressed and discouraged with my progress. Today I decided to look up statistics regarding addiction recovery and discovered a very low success rate (10%). I found this information to be a relief because i was starting to think my recovery was slow and difficult just for me. I would like to know if there have been any studies or statistics done on the rate of recovery on those who are successful. Now that I know that its going to be a lot more hard work for a munch longer time I feel relived but would still like to have an idea of how long it took those successful to be successful ie: a contributing member of society or lack of a better word normal?

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Answer by A Person
I want to say that I really admire your strength and commitment to staying sober. You are correct, recovery is an extremely difficult process, and considering you are coming off a stimulant, makes it all the more difficult- What goes up must come down before it balances out.

There is a very low success rate, and in fact, Relapse is included in the definition of addiction/dependency. In fact, it is suggested that those who are more committed to recovery and abstinence have a more difficult time with recovery (Thombs?).

I don’t have any stats on hand now, but try to remember that there are usually three stages to recovery from stimulants: 1. the Crash, 2. the withdrawal, and 3. Extinction- during which deep depression can come and go along with cravings before it subsides. It’s a long and extremely difficult process.

More broadly, it sounds like you are entering the “Maintenance stage” of recovery. Look up DiClemente’s 6 stages of change. Know that it is not only you, this is a difficult and long process for many, if not most. As for length of time it takes to recover, it’s different for everyone. Take it at your own pace. It sounds like you are determined, although you may have doubts at times. Keep working at at. I wish you the best.

Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop?

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• A lots of examples.
• Easy to follow.
• Can be used for further research.

This companion book to the HBO documentary of the same name sheds light on the hidden American epidemic of addiction. Blending compelling personal narratives with statistics and expert opinion, all gleaned from over two years of research and reporting, ADDICTION offers a comprehensive and provocative look at the impact of chemical dependency on addicts, their loved ones, society, and the economy. Breaking the stigma that addicts are simply weak and immoral, it delves into new brain research prov

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Recovery From Drug Addiction

I am glad folks are curious and searching for information on recovery from drug addiction.

Recovery is an emotional, physical, cognitive, and spiritual process, and happens inside forever, once the commitment to such a powerful change is made. It is wrenching to change all those habits at once. Eventually though, with new programs installed in your brain and habits established, it is possible to maintain a maintenance regimen.

External changes like a new job, or a new car, or a new relationship are sometimes used to measure drug addiction recovery, because there are only feeling and thinking metrics to judge the internal process, until one has some experience with that internal process.

After hitting your bottom, most folks are not sure how much credibility they can place in their own thoughts and perceptions, since those are the thoughts and perceptions which got them into trouble in the first place.

So perhaps the first step is the physical detox, which can take some time depending on the drug of choice.

At this stage, supervision by a medical expert may be very important.

During this stage the body, which is designed to function in a very healthy way, and heal itself if given the correct fuel, will begin to right itself, including resuming neurogenesis, which is the growth of new brain cells.

New brain cells will be in great demand as the neurons recalibrate and close up receptors which were opened to handle the metabolization of recreational chemicals. It will take some time for the brain to replace the wear and tear, but rest assured, it is working to build new cells.

As the brain rights itself physically, then thinking patterns can begin to be addressed, which involves another critical capacity of the human brain, neuroplasticity.

Neuroplasticity is a term used to describe the brains ability to rewire and reconnect itself in a ceaseless search for more effective connections and more effective circuits for maintaining survival behavior.

At this point, someone in treatment, or someone who has sought out AA, NA, or another 12 step program or counseling will begin to address the thinking components of recovery, which involve the neuroplasticity of the human brain.

Sharon Begley in her book, Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, speaks to how attention to what we are paying attention to changes your brain.

This is an excerpt from an article that she wrote for the Wall Street Journal;

“Through attention, UCSF’s Michael Merzenich and a colleague wrote, “We choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work, we choose who we will be the next moment in a very real sense, and these choices are left embossed in physical form on our material selves.”

The discovery that neuroplasticity cannot occur without attention has important implications. If a skill becomes so routine you can do it on autopilot, practicing it will no longer change the brain. And if you take up mental exercises to keep your brain young, they will not be as effective if you become able to do them without paying much attention.”

This is where thinking about the steps of your program, for example, begin to pay off. There is no end to that process, but the practice itself changes your brain in a healthy, neuroplastic way.

In fact, a key component of healthy recovery from drug addiction is a healthy brain, and a healthy brain means you need to take care of the pillars of brain fitness, getting enough physical exercise, proper nutrition, including omega 3 fatty acids to keep your neurons supple and flexible, for good signal sending and receiving, good sleep, stress management (step 11?), and novel learning experiences, which certainly includes puzzling over how to create your recovery.

But remember, you can enhance and encourage neurogenesis and neuroplasticity by attending to the pillars of brain fitness, which actually closely parallel the pillars of kidney and liver health, for example.

The key piece of recovery from drug addiction is to manage your thinking.

Capture and dispute automatic negative thoughts as Daniel Amen, MD, describes them, simply because it is your brain and you can do this.

In a sense automatic negative thoughts are like computer viruses. You install your 12 step filter, for example, and reboot the brain as you become aware of each negative thought. Soon you will be repeating thoughts which leave you feeling good, simply because you can and now your neuroplasticity is becoming effective in a positive way.

Change the thought, change the feeling, and soon your brain is moving towards a very healthy and relaxing pattern of thinking and internal chemistry.

Remember though, that we process sensory data and create thoughts about sensory data continuously, so this is an ongoing process.

Enhanced Neuroplasticity From Computerized Brain Fitness Programs

One of the pillars of brain fitness is novel learning experiences, which for a recovering addict certainly involves learning new skills, but for others might involve learning a new language or new musical instrument, which challenges the neuroplastic capacity of your brain in a healthy way.

If you do not have time for a new language or instrument, there are a number of computerized neuroplasticity enhancing tools available.

Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop?

- click on the image below for more information.

• A lots of examples.
• Easy to follow.
• Can be used for further research.

This companion book to the HBO documentary of the same name sheds light on the hidden American epidemic of addiction. Blending compelling personal narratives with statistics and expert opinion, all gleaned from over two years of research and reporting, ADDICTION offers a comprehensive and provocative look at the impact of chemical dependency on addicts, their loved ones, society, and the economy. Breaking the stigma that addicts are simply weak and immoral, it delves into new brain research prov

Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop?

Click on the button for more information and reviews.

addiction and recovery question by Alice: Please help me understand the statistics regarding methamphetamine addiction to help my own recovery.?
i used meth for 10 years. 6 months ago I sought a behavioral therapist and started recovery. About a month ago I became severely depressed and discouraged with my progress. Today I decided to look up statistics regarding addiction recovery and discovered a very low success rate (10%). I found this information to be a relief because i was starting to think my recovery was slow and difficult just for me. I would like to know if there have been any studies or statistics done on the rate of recovery on those who are successful. Now that I know that its going to be a lot more hard work for a munch longer time I feel relived but would still like to have an idea of how long it took those successful to be successful ie: a contributing member of society or lack of a better word normal?

addiction and recovery best answer:

Answer by A Person
I want to say that I really admire your strength and commitment to staying sober. You are correct, recovery is an extremely difficult process, and considering you are coming off a stimulant, makes it all the more difficult- What goes up must come down before it balances out.

There is a very low success rate, and in fact, Relapse is included in the definition of addiction/dependency. In fact, it is suggested that those who are more committed to recovery and abstinence have a more difficult time with recovery (Thombs?).

I don’t have any stats on hand now, but try to remember that there are usually three stages to recovery from stimulants: 1. the Crash, 2. the withdrawal, and 3. Extinction- during which deep depression can come and go along with cravings before it subsides. It’s a long and extremely difficult process.

More broadly, it sounds like you are entering the “Maintenance stage” of recovery. Look up DiClemente’s 6 stages of change. Know that it is not only you, this is a difficult and long process for many, if not most. As for length of time it takes to recover, it’s different for everyone. Take it at your own pace. It sounds like you are determined, although you may have doubts at times. Keep working at at. I wish you the best.

Addiction, Recovery and Yoga 4/17 : Stopping

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Truth About Addiction and Recovery

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In this revolutionary analysis of addiction, Peele and Brodsky draw on years of research to refute the contention that addictions are biologically based diseases that last a lifetime. Examining addiction within the context of people's lives, they show that addictive behavior is a way of coping with situational stress--and that it can be overcome without medical treatment or 12-step groups.

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addiction and recovery question by Jennifer: What should I say at my brothers drug addiction recovery ceremony ? please help?
My brother just finished his treatment for drug addiction and he is having a closing ceremony and my whole family Is going and he asked me to speek at it and I have no clue what to say I’ve never been to one of theese before and I’m really nervous

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Answer by Lord Zane Vorhis
Mention how he has changed, that your proud if him, support him etc.

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