Tea Addiction Health Feed

Dear Ashika,
Your husband needs assessment, just like any other addiction. Then he needs to undergo motivational enhancement therapy for at least 12 weeks. If he has any psychiatric disorder along with this addiction, it has to be treated simultaneously. After that, he needs long term follow up to prevent relapses. Finally with the help of both the families, see that all his financial dealings are from joint accounts with you.

Hello lybrate-user. I'm so sorry to hear this. Alcohol is an addictive substance and any person can get dependant on it, especially if used over a long time or in heavy amounts. It is common for a person to lose his inner inhibitions and sensibility under alcohol intoxication, and get aggressive with oneself or others. To help with this, the best option is to consult your psychiatrist for a detoxification program.
Anxozap is a sleep medicine that also helps in reducing irritability and anxie...more

Urine tests can detect cannabis in the urine for approximately 3–30 days. Saliva tests can detect cannabis for approximately 24 hours after use.

Dear Kamal,
Are you dependent on narcotics? Buprenorphine makes this addictive habit less risky. You may not overdose and die of narcotics. With buprenorphine, less withdrawal symptoms. All the other tablets may be for your associated mental health issues or management of withdrawal symptoms or for medical complication of your habit of taking narcotics. Please decide for something less harmful so that you can have better quality of life.

Yes it can be quitted but journey of recovery is not as short as 1 month. In most case it takes around 4-6 month, in some it might take a year or so, but not with tapentadol alone.

Dear Pragya,
I hope you know what will happen if you skip the dose. Alcohol along with it depends on whether you drink wine/beer or hot drinks. It depends on the quantity also. It also depends on what food you take along with alcohol, whether you will be driving after drinking and whether you have any medical illnesses, your weight, etc.

He need hypnotherapy better instruct him to sniff other fruit flavours which he likes or you give squeezed lemon to sniff which will control from petrol inhaling addiction

Three or more of the following must have been experienced or exhibited at some time during the previous year:
a strong desire or sense of compulsion to take the substance;
difficulties in controlling substance-taking behaviour in terms of its onset, termination, or levels of use;
a physiological withdrawal state when substance use has ceased or been reduced, as evidenced by: the characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance; or use of the same (or a closely related) substance ...more

Yes, you are being treated for depression and you are using Antabuse medication and should not consume alcohol. In fact, it is hazardous. Your addiction may be related to your depression, or it can be the other way around i.e. your alcoholism may have induced your depression. Now you need to continue your therapy or at least attend AA meetings for at least 3 years to be completely out of your addiction and depression. Please stop drinking and attend therapy and resolve your issues connected to d...more

Hi lybrate-user
there are many strong forces in you despite yor substance dependence.
You are a player and have strong motive to go up.
You can definitely defeat the negative forces.
Drug dependence is a clinical condition.
Always better to stay in some de addiction facility or hospital so that you will get expert help.
Take care.