Holistic Approach to Addictions

Holistic Approach
with Addictions

Addiction, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) is a physical and psychoemotional disease that creates dependency or need towards a substance, activity, or relationship.Like all diseases, it has signs and symptoms, as well as risk factors.

Today there are countless types of addictions that are progressive and can become fatal.

From a holistic perspective, addiction is a set of disorders that affect the good development of the mind, body, and being. Which should be treated together and as a whole. Giving cavity to the evolution of personality and being.

There are holistic therapies that can help treat addictions in a comprehensive way, and that with the help of life's wellness philosophy provides tools to help mitigate physical, emotional, and mental problems.

Today we come to inform you a little about the risk factors that play an important role in generating addictions, identifying the levels of addiction as well as their signs and symptoms.

Risk factors:

The behavior associated with their use is due to multiple factors that can increase or decrease the risk of a person abusing drugs. Risk factors are those interpersonal, social, or individual agents that are present in the environments in which people develop and that can increase the chances of an addictive event.

Environmental	Risk Factors	Protection Factors
Individual	Aggressive behavior	Auto-control
Family	Lack of structure	Family Union
Social	Addictive environment	Changing the environment
Labor	Excessive burden/stress	Fewer working hours
Community	Substance abuse	Damage reduction

Protection Factors can reduce, neutralize, or eliminate the risk of generating an addictive process.

Addiction levels:

Experimentation:

The first contact with the substance or act, following this the decision is made to continue the consumption or discontinue it

Use:

without commitment to substance, social and casual use without abuse. Circle, family, labor, and social without affectation.

Abuse:

Daily use throughout the week, with episodes of poisoning. The day revolves around the use of the substance, progressively generating deterioration in academic, family, social, and labor circles. Changing moods.

Addiction:

Circles are broken, family problems, work, academics etc. Use of the substance compulsively, as well as risky behaviors.

Signs and Symptoms

To talk about physical and psychological dependence, 3 or more of the above criteria must be presented for a period longer than 12 months.

1. Strong desire or need to consume2. Difficulty controlling consumption3. Abstinence syndrome by interrupting consumption4. Tolerance5. Progressive abandonment of personal interests6. Persistence of use despite perceiving the harmful effects.

If you feel identified with what has already been written we suggest asking for help, a holistic lifestyle is a daily tool to be able to achieve health, emotional and spiritual goals.
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