The person is got a yen for hard drugs. In conditions when drugs are forbidden, it turns for it to terrible tragedy: to get the next doze there is no opportunity, and to pulled out back to a former normal life is not so easy. Intolerable pains in joints and muscles begin, pulse that becomes or frequent or slowed down, cardiac insufficiency dangerous to a life is develops. To remove crashing - i.e. to get rid of physical dependence - it is still possible - for this purpose apply anesthetizing preparations; and it lasts not for long - in the sharp form of all some days. But the drug does not release, again and again returning all ideas of the addict to the narcotic world, concentrating all its desires on drugs. To remove mental dependence it is very difficult - on it years are required. In anyhow more quickly it is impossible - it is necessary for addict to forget all narcotic sensations, completely to erase them from memory.
Persistent mental dependence is a fervent, all-consuming desire to take pleasure - arises to everything, that only causes significant pleasant sensations. Mental dependence pulls the smoker again to light a cigarette, or the alcoholic to drink alcohol. Even such lofty and pure feeling as love - not that other as display of usual mental dependence, and sufferings from one-way love happen not smaller, than sufferings of lost drug addict.
The problem of deliverance from mental dependence to drugs - also is the basic problem of treatment from a narcotism. Here many ways have been tried. Earlier in Soviet Union weren't too gentle with addicts: them sent on compulsory treatment in the specialized closed medical clinics where they were completely isolated from drugs. Of course, such method was faultless on all of 100%, but only till that time while full isolation of "patient" was kept. As soon as the addict received freedom so this method ceased to operate.
Now in Russia are practises more humane approach to a problem - the courses of work therapy in countryside on fresh air in the close company with other addicts and alcoholics, far from cities with their numerous vicious temptations. Years pass on the nature, time gradually erases narcotic remembrances from memory. Who wishes to recover very much - at that it can arrive, who is not assured of own forces - he most likely will not arrive. As one say - no any guarantees.
Treatment for a narcotism is a favourite occupation of numerous army of charlatans. One are ready to help to clear to the addict his organism of "narcotic slags" in baths with brooms; others grief-doctors recommend clarification by means of "special diets " or "ecologically pure products", most expensive of which are prepared from extracts of some mysterious plants. The general therapeutic course is supplemented with "special gymnastic exercises" and sessions of deep breath. For supporters of scientific and technical progress is offered treatment even by means of computers. And all this unimaginable nonsense - with baths, diets, gymnastics, breath and computers - finds the trustful clients. People are ready to pay the significant sums of hope quickly to get rid of narcotic dependence. Alas, all these hopes are unrealizable.
Unfortunately, for addict there is nobody to apply except to charlatans: if to attend to the doctor-expert in narcology voluntary it is obliged to hold the patient on register within five years (so, that he cannot pass a medical board, in particular - on a driving licence). But the main thing - the expert in narcology all the same will not help - in fact procedures of type: restorative medicamentous therapy, psychotherapy in the form of explanatory conversations - that is the same a poultice for dead. The statistics of similar treatment is rather sad: are cured less than 5% of patients. There is a reasonable question, - actually, if doctors-experts in narcology do not treat basically for what they are necessary? And meanwhile a primary factor in disposal of a narcotism is not treatment but vital arranging the concrete addict: if he have interesting work, well-to-do, amicable family - means, chances are, otherwise (and such the majority) - chances to overcome narcotic dependence simply are not present.
Foreign experience also can please nothing. Some doctors from Colombia, wishing to achieve fast successes, treated addicts surgically. They made cranial trepanation and deleted "the center of pleasures". Such operations have been made to tens people - naturally, it any good has not resulted.
In Tibet are engaged in treatment for a narcotism not who others as Buddhist monks. They contain addicts in a strict conditions, force to drink strong emetic broths, for disobedience cane bamboo sticks. Those who breaks a regimen or does not give in to treatment, simply hammer to death. It is necessary to notice, the Buddhist method has not found wide application - its doubtfully to treat patients by means of sticks.
Can seem, that forecasts with treatment for a narcotism the most adverse: the addict is doomed to suffer many years, suppressing in itself importunate desire before mental dependence will release finally. Fortunately, it not absolutely so.
The problem of rescue of any mental dependence (in particular, narcotic) is a problem of management of the person mentality, the feelings and imaginations. There are method of self-control which development person enables to live in the full consent with the private world. For this purpose it is not obligatory to possess natural abilities or to have special knowledge - they are accessible practically to all people.
The most effective technique of mastering by receptions of self-control is narcotherapy. Any person, being plunged in a deep hypnotic trance, runs into a special condition in which it can experience the same sensations, as at introduction of a drug. During a session to the addict it is inspired that he can cause himself independently the same condition at any time when only will want. After several sessions of suggestion the person can independently plunge into the world of controllable hallucinations, but already without application of narcotics. Drugs will be not already necessary to him.
To enter into a deep hypnotic trance (up to a condition of a somnambulism) from simple verbal suggestion only the few can (approximately one of hundred), but application of the psychotropic preparations, giving strong and long hypnotic effect, completely resolves this problem. All complexity consists that all these preparations are carried to narcotics (chloral hydrate, paraldehyde, barbituric acid derivatives and others), that completely excludes this method for wide application.
Here there is a paradoxical situation - to live without drugs it is necessary to legalize drugs. And till these times anybody can to help addicts, they can hope only for own will and only on own forces.
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