Life and Death of the Addict (continuation of Part 3)

White death

This strange combination of the words "white death" came from drugs of a white color - cocaine and heroin. "White whirlpool", "white death" - that's what all drugs are called, although they are green, brown and brown.

It's not wild: to inhale the powder of cocaine, knowing that - it's a measure.

To inject a dose of heroin into the vein, knowing that it is an erosion. White death, divided into doses and killing its victim not immediately, but for several years. However, sometimes (with an overdose) and - immediately.

Addicts do not live long. One of the readers will say: "Do not frighten a sick person (that is, a drug addict)." When the mother, standing at a traffic light with a small son or daughter, says: "Do not run across the road to the" red light ", or you will be crushed by a car" - it is that: a child or a child Is there any possible misfortune?

"Do not frighten teenagers ..."

Do not scare? No, I'm not scary. I'm just a naughty addict of the chosen tragic fate, as a mirror shows emaciated pale faces with abnormal eyes.

"White Death" is a forbidden (red!) Light for someone who has not tried drugs. And the signal: "Save yourself!" For those who entered the dangerous ... on very dangerous! way.

"... Unfortunately, teenagers and young people see in films only" high ", romance and gunfights between the mafia and the police and ... are burning with a desire to try that forbidden, mysterious thing that they have not yet learned, because of what all this is happening. They do not see the reverse side of the "medal". Do not see the terrible "lump" addicts, their moral devastation, lightening aging ... And this is exactly what they need to show, "- writes Strelkov.

Fear can also become a reliable ally of a drug addict in the struggle for oneself. It is necessary to understand only: fear - before what?

Before you do not get a drug?

Or: before the tragic consequences of his narcotic addiction?

For those who will know about these consequences, fear can be of use and help to protect oneself from misfortune.

What is the danger for zhins and are drugs?

One of them is the destruction of health.

The poisoned organism of the addict is attacked by diseases. So in the savannah, the weakened antelope is attacked by genes ...

In fact, most of the diseases referred to in the chapter "Poison" are characteristic of elderly or old people. At a young age, a person is usually healthy and full of energy. But this is: as a rule. Addict - an exception to the rule.

Yes, diseases often affect old people ... However, a drug addict, using drugs and thus weakening the body, is like an old man! The defenses of the body are undermined, and its enemies - microbes, viruses, all disease-causing evil spirits are thrown on all organs of vital activity.

Among the diseases that overwhelm the addict, one may prove fatal. Not every pathology (as medicine is called disease) is susceptible even to the most persistent efforts of doctors. But in order to recover from any disease, we must first abandon drugs! And what would a hardened drug addict prefer?

A difficult life (to give up drugs, of course, it is difficult!)?

Or - white death (which is no better than "black")?

It depends not on the doctor, but on himself. But we will give the floor to Urakov.

"If a drug addict or a drug addict himself or with the help of doctors failed to cope with his destructive" passion ", the outcome is predetermined: the loss of mental and physical health and premature death"

Here is the fate of a drug addict (from Gursky's book).

"Marek stole drugs from the hospital. Pale and dry, he literally melted in his eyes (he was sixteen! Years old). He kept jerking all the time, his hair and teeth fell out. I could not already coherently express my thoughts, muttered something. He staggered through the streets from the brothel to the brothel, died in one of them. "

The mortal danger conceals for the drug addict a phenomenon that in medicine is dryly called one word: an overdose.

A drug addict is well aware of the concept: dose. But this dose must not always be measured to the nearest milligram. The drug dealer, of course, tries not to give too much, but nevertheless he does not possess the pharmacy precision (and responsibility!). And extra milligrams can cause an overdose.

So what happens when you overdose?

The organism, which is moderately poisoned at the usual dose, and all the organs, although inadequate, perform their work, with an overdose lose their ability to live. The addict possesses unconsciousness - with senseless delirium, as at a high temperature and the heaviest disease. Then he falls into a coma - it is almost death. Sometimes you manage to get him out of a coma and bring it back to life. But - not always ...

What dose can be taken without risking immediate death, and which one can not be? I think that exactly this one can not say. Why? Because the susceptibility of the body in different people is also different. Depends on the age. The dose that an adult can endure for a teenager is sometimes fatal. Depends on the state of health ... And from the habit of using drugs. And from the individual intolerance of this poison ...

Can a drug addict take into account all these factors, and even somehow taking into account them to determine for themselves a "safe" ... more precisely - a "non-fatal" dose? And he can not, and he will not do it. Especially if there was a "breaking". Then quickly get rid of the painful pains!

It gets rid of ... Sometimes - at the cost of one's own life ...

But not only an inveterate addict dies from an overdose. It happens that a person dies from the first "dose"! Dies, not even having time to become a drug addict. Not having experienced the "buzz" for which he was taking the drug.

Some think that only a "syringe" is dangerous. No, a cigarette can also deprive a drug addict of life. For example, with cocaine. This is how the danger of the Gunmen describes this:

"When you smoke, cocaine affects the lungs. When inhaled, it can cause microscopic ruptures in the heart muscle, and also suppresses four kinds of enzymes vital for normal heart activity. As a result, convulsions, shock, heart attack and death may occur. Even when a newcomer takes a first breath, it can trigger a nausea allergy or reveal a hidden heart defect leading to an unexpected death. " Strelkov describes the effect of cocaine. But so does heroin and other drugs!

But we will give the conclusion to the drug addict who has already approached the fatal threshold - from the book of Stanislav Gursky.

"Whoever does not prick, he can not understand the horror of this vice ... I have not only been poisoning my body for several years, but all my life. I live from the last strength. Was judged for forgery of recipes. I really can not stand it. I would very much like to return to normal life ... "

Unfortunately, the desire to break with drugs usually comes too late, when a person has already turned into a weak-willed wreck. Here is what the author writes about the man whose monologue I just brought.

"He was so rude that he had open wounds everywhere. He was just rotting alive! The feet were black with necrosis - barely walked. It smelled so bad that it smelled like two meters. When they told him to go to the hospital, he just smirked - like a skull, bared the remains of black teeth. He really was waiting for one thing: death. "

Addicts do not live long. This is much talked about and written by doctors, journalists, relatives of the unhappy ... They speak and write not about themselves - about others. But you, taking the drug in the first - or the twentieth time ...

Think! After all, it's about you: "Narcotics and douche-gum."

Do you want to die young? To die without experiencing many and many manifestations of life - joyful, anxious, light, risky, victorious, happy ...

No! I know: you want to live! You can and will live. But for this you need to get rid of your addiction, if you succumbed to it. Come on! Act! Call for help from your parents. Address to the doctor. Do not let your tormentor - the drug - take possession of your life.

But - we must hurry!

Why - hurry?

Because the habit of drugs sucks man like a quagmire. Like a swampy marsh ...

Run!

Run away from this infection, if you still have the strength to escape. Few forces? Gather all and - run! From hashish. From friends-addicts. From this accursed "buzz", for which you have to pay with your life.

"In the course of a discussion of the nature of the situation, the struggle against terrorism"

(Cervantes)

Myths

Monologue of psychologist Yulia Eduardovna Nearonova.

- It is necessary to debunk the myths that go around among drug addicts and are inspired by those whom they want to draw into drug addiction.

Myth first. "There are drugs that you can not sit on (hemp, estazi and some others)."

You'll sit down! From any drug. Any drug is a poison that has the ability to cause the body to become addicted to that poison.

Myth of the second. " I'll drop drugs when I want to ... Sam! No specialists are needed. "

This idea is suggested to drug addicts by dealers - drug sellers. But! Independently, without the help of a doctor and a psychologist, it is impossible to give up drugs.

Myth three. "Experts will not help to abandon drug addiction."

Help! Have the opportunity to help. Competent treatment is the only way out of drug addiction. Although treatment is long and difficult.

Myth four. "You can just lower the dose, not stop taking drugs."

Both alcoholics and drug addicts believe that "it is limited, you can take alcohol or a drug to get high".

No. And a reduced dose leaves a person addicted to drugs, harms the body, and eventually any dose, whatever it is, will grow.

Myth five. "I'm jumping, I'm feeling good" ...

This "good" will have very bad consequences. In addition to persistent adherence to drugs - many physical and mental diseases, and not all can be got rid of even with diligent treatment.

All this has been described in short and short in another leaflet of the regional center for medical prevention and rehabilitation (Tula).

"Treatment of drug addiction is a long process, consisting of three stages, and this is recognized and conducted in the world's leading drug treatment institutions. The first stage is the withdrawal of the withdrawal syndrome, that is, the elimination of acute poisoning with narcotic substances. It lasts an average of one month (with opium addiction - up to two months). The second stage is the suppression of the pathological attraction to the drug within one to two months. The third stage is the psychological rehabilitation of the addict, the stage lasts from three to six months to two or three years or more.

Only such a step-wise treatment gives good results. The first stage should be predominantly stationary. The second - semi-stationary or outpatient. The third - in the rehabilitation center, groups "Anonymous drug addicts" or the like. To be cured, you have to go through all three stages. All the rest is deceit or self-deception. You can deceive your relatives, doctors, but you can not deceive yourself, the payment will be inevitable. Think about it! Think about it, do you want to be a drug addict? Do not hope that everything will work out, that you can easily give up when you want. No man set himself the goal of becoming a drug addict, he believed that this would never happen to him. "

Perhaps you have heard this expression: "black soul". Often it is used in relation to drug addicts. So the therapist helps a former drug addict to "wash" this "black soul". He has to change many false ("black"!) Priorities of his life to others - bright, kind, human ... But for this to happen, a person who has decided to end drug addiction must strictly follow the doctor's advice and so step by step to return to ordinary prosperous life .

"Ludmila, neslusha yu chuvstvomu mestov, v nel i za pomogo och."

(Franklin)

A crime

If a person becomes addicted, the dose is enough for several hours. He lives on a leash to this regular dose, like a dog on a chain, and there is no strength to get rid of it (neither the addict, nor the dog).

But any "dope" is not cheap. Where can I get money to meet the ever-growing need for this dose? Earn? What work ... There is no strength, no desire, no profession ... Steal? To steal is to become a thief. No! No!...

And the narcotic tyrant persistently tries his own, tormenting the addict's organism with an acute desire to take a drug, or even with acute pains. The addict is ready to shout: "Save me, people!" Others shout at the hospital bed. But - what kind of salvation?

Salvation is known: a drug ...

The first time the drug addict usually makes in his own apartment - from his parents or other relatives. "Is this theft, when you take it from your own people? I will die without a drug. Is it easier for them if I die? "

The mind still resists, the remnants of conscience are still opposed to the next step to the abyss. But the body requires a regular dose. And the money is in the drawer of the table. They were never hid. Because there is no house ... Because nebyl of a family of thieves.

A pile of money, from which a drug addict pulls from his relatives, can be thin or thick. And not every family keeps money openly. However, it's not for nothing that the proverb says: "You can not save yourself from a domestic thief." No money? A drug addict will take a gold ring (maybe an engagement ring!), A crystal vase, any thing a drug dealer will not refuse to take in payment for a drug, once in a tavern they took a jacket of vodka for a glass of vodka from the shoulder of a drunkard or a silver cross with his Breasts.

The drug addict steals and outside the house - where it will be possible.

"Likewise, the narkon-mann-pricetopnik. Nothonarkomania dopers U plene - I oDin shah, "- wrote Strelkov.

Criminals are people who were formerly considered ... no, they were! Quite decent. Addiction has pushed them to the path of crime.

I will bring the story of a talented (!) Young man from the book of Sidorov and Yuzefovich.

"In the investigation file of Pavel V. Photo. She is a sixteen-year-old boy, charming, with magnificent hair, with an open, friendly face, a joyful smile in her eyes. He has a violin in his hands. An energetic swing of the right hand with a bow - and it seems, now the sounds of music will be heard.

And before us is the original. The same young man, he is already eighteen. Once luxuriant hair thinned, became dull and brittle. The swarthy, elastic skin turned to dry, flabby and pale. The look is extinguished, indifferent, lifeless, under the eyes of bags. A young man undergoing forensic psychiatric examination. He is accused of stealing drugs from the pharmacy. From the music school had to leave a year ago. The first successes in music pleased, but wanted more. To do this, it was necessary to work hard. The drugs promised great joys and without much effort. And - gave ... Disappeared talent, a desire to learn. There was only one interest - to be loaded with a drug, to abandon the real world for at least a few hours. The awakening from a narcotic dream is terrible, because it promises only painful suffering ... "

Theft, robbery, murder - ways of obtaining money for drugs. There are plenty of examples! From detective stories on the topic: "Crime for the sake of the drug" you can make more than one book. And not only young men, but also girls become criminals in the name of their narcotic passion.

In the same book by Sidorov and Yuzefovich, the story of Irina D.

"Irina D. She is seventeen years old, does not study and does not work. Received forensic medical examination. Delayed for taking part in robbery. At the disco, she withdrew an unknown girl and began to rip off her gold jewelry (earrings, rings, watches).

The victim did not resist ... Irina pointed to a group of children watching them, and explained: "You will restrain yourself, be dragged into the toilet, raped and mutilated."

Irina with bravado told that many times she robbed the girls, and all got away with it. With pleasure she told me that she smokes anasha, uses "wheels", she "sits on a needle" for a long time. Much in her story was a clear exaggeration. "

I will briefly recount the story of Irina.

In school from the 6th to 7th grade she started smoking in a school toilet. One day a new student offered her a cigarette with hashish. Then she invited me to a youth company. There she was treated to beer and given some pills ... For a while - for free, but eventually explained that it was not all the same to treat to someone else's expense ...

Irina first dragged money and things from home. Then she was offered to participate in robberies ... For robberies it is necessary to bear criminal responsibility - to serve time.

Drugs are expensive ... But the addict will still buy them. Stole the last of the house, steal something from neighbors, commit robbery, robbery, and get money ...

A drug dealer, at the risk of going to jail, knows why he is at risk. He will be rich or - very rich!

And you, a drug addict? Why do you enrich this quiet killer? Senselessness, the emptiness of such a life, when for the sake of drugs they go "for everything", many addicts start to understand with time. Here's how one drug addict from Urakova's book says:

"I started with" grass ". The guys "dabbled in", and I connected. At first, it looked like a game, but then this drug began to give the desired state. I had to look for more powerful means. Soon he left home. How much I remember, during this period I had one thought: where to take a drug and how to quickly prick. Money began to be extracted by criminal means. Twice we judge. It's good that I now realized what trouble I got. Twenty-four years ... Neither the family, nor the profession ... All have replaced drugs. "

Neither the family nor the profession ...

Yes, it's a pity the years have passed without mediocrity! But family, profession, work, all human joys - you can find! And the one who wants this very much, will find it.

"O sh and bak oodogo - u rakdrugomu".

(John Ray)

THE RUN FROM THE HAD

According to religious beliefs, hell falls after death. But there are exceptions. People have learned to create hell on earth. Usually, hell is created for others - like the fascist camp of Auschwitz in the years of the Great Patriotic War or bandit basements for hostages in our time.

But what's amazing is that drug addicts create hell for themselves. Hell of drug-addicts.

About the horrors of this hell we said in previous chapters. Now let's talk about something else. About what to do if you are already in this drug hell. Is there an exit?

There is. Even two.

The first: to reconcile and wait for death and the real afterlife (on the paradise addict with his sins do not have to count).

The second is to flee from this hell and earn a decent life from people and the Lord.

Yes, is it possible? Maybe! But terribly difficult! It's just as difficult as getting out of the quagmire when you are already tightened to the waist ... over the chest ... around your neck ...

What to do? What?!!

RESIST!

Resist this sucking you quagmire! Take for the swamp grass, for the hummock, see if there is any stick or other possible support nearby, call for help! Perhaps somewhere in the distance will be your savior.

But this is about the swamp morass. And what about narcotic? Yes, about the same ... Look for a foothold! Cling to this support and exert all efforts to get out.

"It is of fundamental importance to note that there are no incurable drug addicts - at any stage and with any form of the disease. It takes only one condition - the sincere desire of the patient himself to end the addiction. "

Such a conclusion was made by doctors from their many years of practice ... No, not just doctors, but scientists: professor, doctor of medical sciences Pavel Ivanovich Sidorov and associate professor, candidate of medical sciences Grigory Yakovlevich Yuzefovich.

A person can - CAN !!! - break out of the drug hell. This is also written by the child psychiatrist Buyanov.

"At whatever stage the addict is, he is always himself, if he wants, of course, can stop taking drugs and become a healthy person."

"It may stop taking drugs ...", writes the famous psychiatrist. But why only a few (only a few!) Stop taking drugs and return to normal life? Do not many and many others want to get rid of the heavy addiction to narcotic poison?

Many would like to get rid of it, but it's too difficult a task! We need the iron will, steadfastness, patience, and these character traits, even if they were previously in the person (which is not typical for the addict) are suppressed by drugs. In fact, in order to break out of the drug hell, we must perform a feat in the name of our own salvation.

One such feat was told to me during the work on this book.

A young man, who was already firmly entangled in drug addiction, firmly decided to break free from the fetters of his predilection. And one day, having felt the beginning of "breaking", he asked his parents:

"Tie me tightly to the bed and, no matter how I ask, I do not demand, do not shout, do not untie me until I'm sure that I have calmed down and look like a normal person.

The request was executed. The addict suffered a severe "dry break", without easing his suffering in a known way. Coming out of the abstinence condition, he acquired books on auto-training and began to work on himself, by the greatest effort of will overcoming the craving for drugs.

Remember: if you do not aspire to overcome your vice and return to normal life, the doctor will not be able to help you, no matter how hard he tries to do it. Medicine seeks to help a drug addict. But! The experience of life has proved that it is impossible to CURE a drug addict. He can only be CURED! Himself !!! With the help of doctors. And it happens (albeit very rarely) without this help.

Doctors will help you get out of hell. But you yourself must help yourself! Here is one example of how you can help yourself stay away from drugs (from the monograph by V. Kozlov and N. Surovtsev).

You are drawn to drugs. You imagine a drug, a syringe, a needle ... Okay, imagine it brighter. But then remember - not a relief, not a "buzz" after the drug, but all the bad, heavy, that was due to your addiction to the drug! Remember "breaking", nausea, pain ... Remember your shame when you stole money from your parents. Contempt of relatives or strangers. Remember the mother's suffering because of your commitment to "dope"! Yes, you never know ... Each drug addict has his own bitter experiences. Let them help you overcome the painful desire to ... try again ... once ... Make your troubles serve your recovery!

Doctors will teach you and other methods of fighting Tyrant, who does not want to leave you alone. Struggle and - victory over him!

Dependence on a drug is a disease. Chronic. Progressive. Deadly dangerous.

And still it is possible to start a life without drugs. It's hard to say to myself: "I'm not a junkie anymore!" And - to be treated! Be treated persistently, patiently, strictly follow the prescriptions and advice of doctors.

Prove that you are not only a drug addict. You are a MAN! Fight! Fight the tyrant that's inside you. Fight to the death!

And kill him. Do not let him kill you.

I will end with a wise aphorism: "There is no winner stronger than one who has managed to defeat himself" (Beecher).

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