ADDICTION BY: DANIEL MULDREW

WHAT IS ADDICTION Addiction can be made by anything that you consume like chocolate, alcohol, and drugs Addiction can also happen with routines like exercising and sometime even your morning cup of joe The way that addiction can hit some people is by causing feelings that make you want to continue the addiction or people may outcast you. Like how in high school smoking is the cool thing to do but you an outcast if u don’t do it.

ADDICTION TREATMENT There are a lot of steps that people have to take to kick their addiction. Most treatment centers are basically focused around getting sober and making sure that you cant relapse ( Restart or continue the use of the substance) During the treatment session most people suffer withdrawals from there addiction which may cause them to relapse and start the treatment over. One way that rehabs help take you off is by giving you lower doses of the substance so that you body is getting use to the lower doses and soon make you stop all together. This way is better than just stopping the addiction and having to deal with the effects that come with going.

ADDICTION TREATMENT (CONT) Some of the ways that centers take care of the patients is by having them join self help groups which put you with people that suffer from the same addiction that you are having. Some people have to go to inpatient and outpatient center which have to simular but distinct differences. Outpatient treatment centers allow the addict to go home after having a session and live there lives freely. Inpatients or residential treatment is centered around patience having to spend 28 weeks in a secure facility till they are cured of the addiction.

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