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Substance Abuse and Disease
What is at stake in your life because of drug addiction?
Anyone who is in active addiction is putting more that these at risk, they are putting their own lives at risk. Substance abuse and disease should be of major concern for anyone who is closely involved with someone who is actively pursuing and using drugs. For instance, the spread of HIV/AIDS in the United States is fueled in part by the use of illicit drugs.
"In addition to direct transmission through sharing injection-drug equipment, indirect transmission occurs through sexual contact with HIV-positive injection drug users. Moreover, the use of both injected and noninjected illicit drugs increases risk for HIV because of their effects on decision making and sexual risk taking."
"The risk for HIV associated with substance abuse involves more than simply the sharing of IDU paraphernalia. The National Institute on Drug Abuse, along with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, has found that use of drugs and alcohol interferes with judgment about sexual and other behavior. As a result, substance users may be more likely to have unplanned and unprotected sex."
Over 20 million Americans are in active substance abuse. Education of disease and substance abuse in addiction treatment centers is one way of combating the spread of infectious disease. Through providing tools of living a successful life, some drug rehabs offer courses on how to communicate with others or how to obtain personal values and integrity. Addiction treatment offers more than opportunity to achieve clean time. There are opportunities to discover the reasons why one turns to drugs and alcohol to deal with one’s life and provides services of how to continue living free from drug abuse.
Taking care of one’s body is something that some people neglect, especially substance abusers. The injection of harmful drugs into one’s body inhibits rational thinking and action. When bad actions occur, such as, using and sharing paraphernalia or having promiscuous sex, actions to get high will turn into a lifetime of regret.
Narconon exists for the purpose of helping individuals overcome alcohol and drug addiction and return them to society as drug free, productive and happy individuals. We do this well and our 76% success rate shows that.
