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when rush Limbaugh had to disclose his addiction to the pain medication Oxycontin, it came as a huge surprise to many. actually, a few months before he disclosed his addiction, the national enquire was running headline stories about it. so he had not much of a choice but to disclose it. when i had heard about his addiction i was not at all surprised, saddened maybe, but not surprised. i am always saddened when i see someone suffering from alcohol or drug addiction. you see rush limbaugh clearly exhibits all the traits of addiction and addictive personalities. on air he is always talking about his "formerly nicotine stained fingers". a reference to his former smoking days. and of course smoking is an addiction. rush has also spoken many, many times about his up and down battle with weight. so through his own admission and through the various photos of him it is clear that he has often suffered from food addiction. when he went into rehab a few years ago to break his addiction to the pain medication Oxycontin, several tabloid newspapers had reported that he had taken up smoking again while in rehab. so he quits the Oxycontin and takes up smoking to cope with his anxieties that are no longer being coped with through his taking of pain medication. rush Limbaugh was extremely over weight about 10 or 15 years ago. he finally slimmed down about 12 years ago. right about the time when he has admitted that his addiction to Oxycontin began. so his food addiction ends when his addiction to the calming pain medication begins. and rush remained thin for the 10 years he was addicted to the Oxycontin. so now, a couple of years after his addiction to pain medication ended, rush has again developed a problem with weight. so his food addiction is back. what you should understand about addiction, all types of addiction is this, it is all rooted in the same general causes. addiction is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. this chemical imbalance is triggered in a few ways. a psychological disorder will cause a chemical imbalance and so will extreme fear, or emotionally traumatic situations. also stress and social pressures will cause a chemical imbalance. to end your addictions you need to treat the underlying root causes of your chemical imbalance. if you don't, then you will shuffle from one addiction to another in an effort to deal with an unquiet mind brought on by your chemical imbalance. i remember how my auntie Connie used to shake when she went without her cigarettes for more than one or two hours. hence, the anxiety she suffered from a chemical imbalance. look at what usually happens to most smokers who quit smoking. they gain weight. and most of them say that they have gained weight because they now have clean taste buds and can really enjoy the taste of food. wrong! the reason they gain weight is because they have replaced one addiction with another. that's called trading addictions. they can greatly end their addiction if they would just treat the root causes of their chemical imbalance that is bringing on anxieties in their unquiet mind. when i quit my heavy drinking i had found myself addicted to over the counter sleeping pills for over a year. then when i quit taking the sleeping pills to calm down i found myself drinking herbal tea with the calming ingredients of cava cava or Valerian. both natural sedatives. i also found myself walking 3 or 4 miles a day. i did not really decide i was going for a walk, i just could not keep still and before i knew it, i found myself walking. so having an addiction does not make someone a bad person, you really have to sympathize with the anxious feelings an addict feels. and what the addict needs to do is treat their chemical imbalance and then their need to engage in addictive substances and behaviors will greatly diminish. the fact is that at least 1 in 3 suffer from an addiction, half don't know it or won't recognize it, but the facts are clear that addictive disorders are much more common than most people have imagined.
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Addiction/anxiety question and answer
Question
Is Anxiety a symptom of quitting drinking?
I find myself feeling anxiety like I have never felt before and the only thing changed in my life is the fact that I quit drinking about a month ago. Does anyone have real life experience with this?
when rush Limbaugh had to disclose his addiction to the pain medication Oxycontin, it came as a huge surprise to many. actually, a few months before he disclosed his addiction, the national enquire was running headline stories about it. so he had not much of a choice but to disclose it. when i had heard about his addiction i was not at all surprised, saddened maybe, but not surprised. i am always saddened when i see someone suffering from alcohol or drug addiction. you see rush limbaugh clearly exhibits all the traits of addiction and addictive personalities. on air he is always talking about his "formerly nicotine stained fingers". a reference to his former smoking days. and of course smoking is an addiction. rush has also spoken many, many times about his up and down battle with weight. so through his own admission and through the various photos of him it is clear that he has often suffered from food addiction. when he went into rehab a few years ago to break his addiction to the pain medication Oxycontin, several tabloid newspapers had reported that he had taken up smoking again while in rehab. so he quits the Oxycontin and takes up smoking to cope with his anxieties that are no longer being coped with through his taking of pain medication. rush Limbaugh was extremely over weight about 10 or 15 years ago. he finally slimmed down about 12 years ago. right about the time when he has admitted that his addiction to Oxycontin began. so his food addiction ends when his addiction to the calming pain medication begins. and rush remained thin for the 10 years he was addicted to the Oxycontin. so now, a couple of years after his addiction to pain medication ended, rush has again developed a problem with weight. so his food addiction is back. what you should understand about addiction, all types of addiction is this, it is all rooted in the same general causes. addiction is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. this chemical imbalance is triggered in a few ways. a psychological disorder will cause a chemical imbalance and so will extreme fear, or emotionally traumatic situations. also stress and social pressures will cause a chemical imbalance. to end your addictions you need to treat the underlying root causes of your chemical imbalance. if you don't, then you will shuffle from one addiction to another in an effort to deal with an unquiet mind brought on by your chemical imbalance. i remember how my auntie Connie used to shake when she went without her cigarettes for more than one or two hours. hence, the anxiety she suffered from a chemical imbalance. look at what usually happens to most smokers who quit smoking. they gain weight. and most of them say that they have gained weight because they now have clean taste buds and can really enjoy the taste of food. wrong! the reason they gain weight is because they have replaced one addiction with another. that's called trading addictions. they can greatly end their addiction if they would just treat the root causes of their chemical imbalance that is bringing on anxieties in their unquiet mind. when i quit my heavy drinking i had found myself addicted to over the counter sleeping pills for over a year. then when i quit taking the sleeping pills to calm down i found myself drinking herbal tea with the calming ingredients of cava cava or Valerian. both natural sedatives. i also found myself walking 3 or 4 miles a day. i did not really decide i was going for a walk, i just could not keep still and before i knew it, i found myself walking. so having an addiction does not make someone a bad person, you really have to sympathize with the anxious feelings an addict feels. and what the addict needs to do is treat their chemical imbalance and then their need to engage in addictive substances and behaviors will greatly diminish. the fact is that at least 1 in 3 suffer from an addiction, half don't know it or won't recognize it, but the facts are clear that addictive disorders are much more common than most people have imagined.
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Addiction/anxiety question and answer
Question
Is Anxiety a symptom of quitting drinking?
I find myself feeling anxiety like I have never felt before and the only thing changed in my life is the fact that I quit drinking about a month ago. Does anyone have real life experience with this?
Answer
When I quit drinking a fifth of whiskey a day I noticed that i was having real problems with anxiety. drinking was self medicating my anxiety, if I would have addressed my anxiety early in life, then I may have never started drinking in the first place. I now sometimes binge eat or go for long walks, drink herbal teas or herbal sedatives such as cava cava, valerian root or melatonin to also help me relax. excercise helps along with meditation.
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When I quit drinking a fifth of whiskey a day I noticed that i was having real problems with anxiety. drinking was self medicating my anxiety, if I would have addressed my anxiety early in life, then I may have never started drinking in the first place. I now sometimes binge eat or go for long walks, drink herbal teas or herbal sedatives such as cava cava, valerian root or melatonin to also help me relax. excercise helps along with meditation.
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Please read the following article from another website which I have posted. This article gives its opinion to the two main main causes of addiction. Now I do not fully agree with with it's conclusion but I do agree that the two factors it lists are part of the continuing factors for the addiction cycle. The article I have written above about "chemical imbalance" are the main reasons that addiction occurs in the first place. An "unquiet mind" is the factor in most addictions. By most I mean about 90-95%. When I was a pre-teen I was extremely over weight for about 4 years. This was due to my chemical imbalance and unquiet mind. When I got down to normal thin weight I was in my first year of high school. About a year after I had gotten skinny again I first tried drinking straight gin. From that moment on I was instantly an alcoholic. So please take some knowledge from the following article and please feel free to click on the links within it so you may check out more of what the site may have to offer you. john carcerano
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| The Two Main Reasons for Drug and Alcohol Addiction | |
They are thoroughly addressed and treated on the Narconon Drug Rehabilitation Program. These two major reasons are:
• Mental and physical cravings caused by drug residues which remain in the body even long after a person quits using the drug.• The "Biochemical Personality" -- the "way of thinking" that is caused by drug addiction and the lifestyle an addict adopts to get drugs and live with a drug habit.
These two situations are intricately linked, the one feeding the other, and both must be recognized and dealt with before a person can fully free himself or herself from the addiction.
Drug Residues: What they are and how they work
The addict can “just say no” a thousand times, but it only takes saying “yes” one time to start the cycle of addiction again.Several decades ago, L. Ron Hubbard discovered the biochemical aspect of drug addiction. This biochemical breakthrough has led to the most successful approach to rehabilitation in existence.
In essence, when a person uses drugs over a period of time, the body becomes unable to completely eliminate all traces of them. The traces that remain are stored in the fatty tissues. Called "drug Metabolites", these traces re-enter the system and trigger cravings for the drug along with the "Biochemical Personality" traits that are a non-optimum way of life.
Left unhandled, these manifestations will haunt a person for years even if they have sobered up. Left untreated, they can trigger a serious relapse. These unresolved symptoms and manifestations, whether physical or mental in origin, create an underlying low-level type of stress which cannot be completely ignored by the addict. The addict can “just say no” a thousand times, but it only takes him saying “yes” one time to start the cycle of addiction again.
Drug Residues Remain in Fatty Tissues
Drugs are broken down in the liver into substances called metabolites. Although removed rapidly from the blood stream, metabolites can become trapped in the fatty tissues. The one thing in common—and the problem that needs to be addressed—is that these drug residues remain trapped for years.
Tissues in our bodies that are high in fats are turned over very slowly. When they are turned over, the stored drug metabolites are released into the blood stream and reactivate the same brain centers as if the person actually took the drug. The former addict now experiences restimulation of a drug episode (or “flashback”) and subsequent drug craving. This is common in the months after an addict quits and can continue to occur for years, even decades.
The Cycle of Quitting, Withdrawal, Craving And Relapse
When the addict initially tries to quit, cells in the brain that have become used to large amounts of these metabolites are now forced to deal with much decreased amounts. Even as the withdrawal symptoms subside, the brain “demands” that the addict give it more of the drug. This is called drug craving.
Craving is an extremely powerful urge and can cause a person to create all kinds of “reasons” they should begin using drugs again. He is now trapped in an endless cycle of trying to quit, craving, relapse and fear of withdrawal.
Eventually, the brain cells will again become used to having lowered drug metabolites. But, because deposits of drug metabolites release back into the bloodstream from fatty tissues for years, craving and relapse remain a cause for concern.
Left unhandled, the presence of metabolites even in microscopic amounts cause the brain to react as if the addict had again actually taken the drug and can set up craving and relapse even after years of sobriety.
Handling the Drug Metabolites
The Narconon Rehabilitation Program utilizes a combination of exercise, induced sweating in a sauna, and nutritional supplements to eliminate the traces of drugs, or metabolites, stored in the fatty tissue.
No drugs of any kind are part of the Narconon Rehabilitation Program, such as "addiction substitute drugs" like Methadone.
The results of this phase of the program are:
• Reduction or elimination of drug and alcohol cravings.
• Reduction or elimination of many symptoms associated with drug addiction and alcoholism. These can include depression, irritability, and fatigue.
• Ability to think more clearly.
• Improved memory and attention span.
• Increased energy.
• Increased sense of well being.
• Enthusiasm toward Life.
Handling the "Biochemical Personality"
After successfully eliminating drug traces from the body, the Narconon Rehabilitation Program moves through a series of specialized study courses that complement and expand on each other to help the addict recognize the old addiction life-style and thought processes.These unique cognitive and objective therapies are followed by life skills training, delivered in easily understood phases designed to complement and expand on each other.
The program is complete when the former addict recognizes and accepts responsibility for old habit patterns and "reasons why". The person's relationships with and understanding of himself, his family, friends and environment are fully examined and rehabilitated.
On the person's own self-determinism, and with no physical or mental "hooks" into past cravings and behavior, he or she is no longer an addict and has regained his or her own true nature.
As so many program graduates say, "The future is once again accessible, and anything is possible."