Since the origins of humanity, the history of human beings has been closely linked to the use of psychotropic substances or drugs, for magical-religious, therapeutic and recreational purposes. The drugs that we know today have been present on our planet in their natural form since before our ancestors came out of the caverns and came together to create our civilization.
Read MoreOur President, Lic. Jose Rijo, delivers a proclamation of Example of Overcoming on behalf of the Committee for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction, under the direction of Don Carlos Martínez, who was the president before his death, Mr. Fernando Villalona continues Being our Ambassador in Latin America, we are very grateful for all your collaborations.
Read MoreDr. Silkworth's Rx for Sobriety The Elimination of Relapses The AA Grapevine, June 1945 (Editor's Note: In the opinion of the Grapevine Staff, the importance of the following interview lies in the fact that it represents the deductions of a man who is in a unique position to be able to value AA both from within and without, as an old AA friend, and as a doctor who began working with alcoholics long before AA was conceived.)
Read MoreIn the simplest terms, a person uses drugs to feel different (and better) and abuses them because each time they need to experience that feeling with greater intensity. Of course, the deepest reasons why a person tries legal or illegal drugs and becomes addicted to them are as individual as each user. Typically, a mix of environmental factors, personality traits, internal biology, and external pressures encourage drug use. Understanding why people use drugs is the first step in avoiding addiction and dealing with it if it exists.
Read MoreIn 1815, a young German man became the first person to extract the essence of opium, and he named it morphium, after the Greek god of dreams, Morpheus. His name was Friedrich Sertürner and with his experiments he found the key to create all modern medicines. What was later called morphine became widely used, especially to eliminate pain, but also as a substitute for alcohol, until doctors realized that it was even more addictive than the substances it was supposed to replace. Opioids are great pain relievers, but they have significant side effects, from constipation and vomiting to addiction and, if they depress your breathing, death.
Read MoreEcstasy is a synthetic drug, or hard drug, which acts on the central nervous system, so it causes both stimulant effects, such as hallucinogens. 'Ecstasy' is the trade name of a substance called methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA.
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Read MorePsychoactive Substances are substances that affect the functioning of the central nervous system. They can be of natural or synthetic origin. They can affect orientation, awareness, thinking, perception, mood, and higher cognitive functions such as memory, thinking, motor activities, judgment, and calculation.
Read More"PEOPLE die and everything is left there, long-term plans, housework, debts with the bank, plots, jewelry, the new car I bought for status. PEOPLE DIE without even saving the food in the refrigerator, everything rots, clothes are left hanging or put in their place.
Read MoreCHILDREN CHILDREN In toxic families it is tacitly or explicitly forbidden to speak of the compulsive behavior of one or both parents. "The son of an alcoholic - Emilia Faur illustrates - was probably very persecuted because he did not do his homework or did not perform appropriately in school. It is a way of diverting the focus of the problem, since the problem is not there." MISCONDUCT PARENTS In some cases, these parents are emotionally inadequate and use their children to take on roles that would truly correspond to them. "Parents of misconduct," Faur says. "What cases? Mothers of adolescent daughters who, instead of accompanying the girls' growth, compete with them; parents who dress and act like boys and put themselves on an equal footing with their own children ... They are those parents who pride themselves on saying that their children are their friends, when in truth the father cannot be a friend, because the father is the law. Where this does not occur, the relationship becomes dysfunctional. "
Read MoreIt passes electric current through a helmet of stimulation generating a magnetic field that, in turn, induces a current in the zone of the brain.
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