Drug users are not bitten by a snake!
Addiction is chronic substitution. The external opioid replaces the internal natural opioid-like: Endorphins, Dynorphins, etc. Defining addiction as chronic poisoning has misled the whole world toward detoxification because one who has poison within his body must be detoxified. If we want to detox the drug user, we don’t need to perform UROD or other methods. We can simply give him some lemon continuously and all the narcotics will be extracted immediately! However, in our definition, the external opioid is the replacement and it must not be stopped suddenly! We can stop the replacement of course, but that is only possible when the opioid-like producing systems of the body are back to normal. Today lack of willpower is a stigma that is marked on those addicted to drugs! But is it a lack of willpower or wrong treatment methods?! For instance, a city that has been bombarded for like 10 years is being cleansed of bomb fragments in hope that the city’s establishments will recover! If the addicted drug user stops taking drugs for 3 days, then the body tends to remove the remaining of narcotics itself, but when we are forcing the body to remove remaining of narcotics (so-called detoxification!) it is like creating a magnitude 8 earthquake within the body! I would like to share 14 principles on addiction treatment with you all.
First principle: narcotics. A substance is categorized as narcotics if it unbalances the body. Such a substance can cross through the bloodbarrier of the brain and be replaced instead of natural opioid of the brain. The result will be the malfunction of the X system. Narcotics like heroin, hash, opium and etc. other substances like alcohol, psychoactive pills, and other unprescribed medications are considered narcotics.
Second principle: who is an addict? One who uses narcotics at least for 10 months (the same amount of time which is needed for addiction treatment) continuously is considered an addict. Withdrawal in such a person will lead to tangible symptoms. From this point of view, an addicted drug user is a person who is confronted with malfunctions in 3 aspects of body, psyche, and worldview.
Third principle: replacement. Addiction is not chronic poisoning and, it is rather some sort of chronic substitution. External narcotics replace the internal natural opioids of the body. The third principle is about the fact that being poisonous is a relative concept. Narcotics can be medicine for a person and at the same time quite dangerous for another individual. If an external substance is replaced instead of natural opioids of the body then in this case that very external substance cannot be
considered as poison. In this case, not using that external substance tends body toward lack of balance.
Fourth principle: psyche. The addicted person is ill indeed but he/she is not psychologically ill intrinsically. A drunken person makes irrational moves but is he mentally ill? Or is it just that he is intoxicated?
Fifth principle: Time. Addiction treatment requires at least 10 months of medical interventions and just like pregnancy, no one is capable of decreasing the period of this process by force. The 10 months’ period is proven via years of experience.
Sixth principle: The best medicine. The best medicine to achieve a certain cure is OT. OT stands for opium tincture.
Seventh principle: physical symptoms. The invisible symptoms of addiction have been neglected for a long time. “The pivotal sign of addiction treatment completions is disappearing of invisible symptoms” When the external usage is discontinued or suddenly stopped, there are reactions or symptoms which could be divided into two categories:
a) Visible symptoms
b) Invisible symptoms
A) Visible symptoms:
After withdrawal certain physical reactions appear in the body depending on the kind of narcotics, frequency of usage, and the amount used in each intake. These symptoms are:
• Frequent sneezing
• Insomnia
• Runny nose
• Bone ache, wrist, and muscle ache
• Excessive sweating
• Frequent yawning
• Diarrhea
If no medication is used to treat these symptoms, the immune system of the body naturally heals itself and moves towards balance within two weeks, but some of the symptoms will persist. These invisible symptoms include:
1) Depression
2) Hopelessness
3) Isolation
4) Indifference or lack of motivation in life
5) Impatience or lack of tolerance
6) Excessive exhaustion
7) Insomnia
8) Laziness
9) Forgetfulness
10) Abnormal crying
11) Awakening of sexual desires
12) Premature ejaculation
Some types of narcotics are only associated with invisible symptoms and that’s why it is believed hash is not addictive!
Adopted from the book " Innovations in Addiction Treatment and Recovery"