About Our Services
Steps Recovery Center recognizes how vital the mind, body, and spirit are in their connection to the whole person. We take a holistic approach to treating drug addiction that includes treating the whole person, and find that it tends to be more successful, especially since drug addiction affects every aspect of a person’s life. With a customized and individualized program, a holistic approach just makes sense. It affords an opportunity to meet the patient’s physical and psychological needs and allows them to engage physically, emotionally, and mentally.
Drug Addiction Symptoms
Symptoms that suggest the presence of addiction will vary depending on the type of drug a person uses. Generally, people with this disorder display the following red flags:
- Pushing away family and friends who don’t use drugs
- Spending time with new friends who heavily use drugs
- Consistently asking for money, even for small items
- Showing up late to work or school or not showing up at all
- Inability to hold a job
- Neglecting basic hygiene
- Changes in sleep patterns
- Extreme privacy over their possessions, which includes their room, purse, or car
- Lying about drug use and whereabouts
- Hiding to use a drug
How Do People Develop a Drug Addiction?
A combination of factors influences the risk for drug addiction. The more risk factors a person has, the higher the chance that taking drugs will lead to an addiction. Some factors include:
Biology: A person’s genes account for half of their risk for addiction. Ethnicity, gender, and other mental health disorders can also increase their risk of drug use.
Environment: A person’s environment consists of several different influences, from family and friends to economic status and quality of life. Peer pressure, sexual and physical abuse, stress, early exposure to drugs, and lack of parental guidance can influence a person’s likelihood to turn to drugs as a coping mechanism.
Development: Environmental and genetic factors play a role in a person’s critical development stages, which can heighten addiction risk. Even though taking drugs at any age can result in addiction, a person who uses them from a young age is more likely to become dependent. Early drug exposure can negatively impact teens because the areas in their brains that control judgment, decision-making, and self-control are still developing.
Drug Addiction Dangers
- Developing a high tolerance to the drug
- Withdrawal symptoms when trying to quit
- Health problems, such as an irregular heart rate, high blood pressure, seizures, and lung damage
- Accidental and self-inflicted injuries
- Overdose
- Death
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