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The War Against Addiction

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The War Against Addiction

The War against Addiction

As I write about addiction and its new concept of helping the addict. It really blows my

Mind. Medicine that can help you to stop during drugs and carrying out old behavior. Even to

help alcoholics.

The old school of addiction is Alcoholics Anonymous. As they talk about these new drugs that have come along, Alcoholics Anonymous which stated back in 1935 with an

Alcoholic name Bill Williams came up with a 12 step program that would give you relieve from

Alcohol and drugs if you follow the 12 step p program. The book is called the Big Book written by

a helpless alcoholic who they say has recovery from a seamless, hopeless state of mind and

body. The new medicines that are out now referred back to alcoholics Anonymous.

There are at least 2 to 3 medicines out there say’s Newsweek. It all started with and

hopeless Alcoholic name Annie Fuller that they tried the vaccine name Vivitrol own. It’s a

monthly injection that help prevent the patient from drinking alcohol BT obliterating the ability

to intoxicate you. The American Medical Association recognized addiction as a disease back in

1956. They started to see an underlying biochemistry of the disease. The definition of and addict

They say is a chronic relapsing brain disorder. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA),

FMRI, and Pet scans are working own medicines to help the chronic disease. They talked about

How the brain is put into motion by taste, if the addict sees are thinks about alcohol or drugs it

Start to take over the primitive midbrain and the alcoholic has poured a drink before they know

It. These medicines are to block the intoxicating affects of drugs. Also a vaccine that will help

the body’s to train its own immune system from the brain. The medicines are called Vivitrol,

Vigabatrin, Chaparral, D-cycloserive DCS, Provigil, Vivitrol obliterate

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