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Who Needs Support
Any person who uses drugs/alcohol has relatively high chances of progressing into abuse and even addiction so insidiously that sometimes he/she may not realize that their drinking/drugging has become a real problem for them and those around them. A drug addict may experience some/combination of the following symptoms at some point or the other:
- Any person who uses drugs/alcohol
- Has craving for drugs/alcohol
- Difficulty in controlling the onset, termination or level of use
- Experiencing a withdrawal on not taking drugs/alcohol
- Increase in the quantity used
- Neglect of other activities
- Continued use of the drug despite clear evidence of harmful consequences
- May not realize that their drinking/drugging has become a real problem
The kind of support may vary between individuals based on their personal behavioral traits and the drug/alcohol of abuse. The type of support may broadly include:
- Support from family/friends/peers
- Early identification
- Emotional/psychological support
- Motivation for accessing support services.
- Focus on the person not on your feelings
- Respond to the circumstances as it exists/or may occur
- Be patient and compassionate
- Be active and get involved
- Stay calm
- Stay friendly supportive and non threatening
- Communicate–acknowledge, reflect and reassure
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A friend has had a lot to drink, and they are on the verge of collapsing or throwing up, etc. I'm good at the emotional consolation stuff when people get upset, but what about what I should do physically?
Should they lie down, sit upon the floor, sit in a chair? Should they drink water? Should I get them to eat something? Should I take their wrists and make them wave their arms to keep blood rushing? Should I get them to walk? Should they be outside in the fresh air, or in the warmth? Where should I be, sitting side by side with them, sitting on the floor with my chest to their back?
Secondly, if I'm also drunk and I think that the atmosphere around me is getting aggressive, how can I accelerate sobering up to retain the role of a coordinator and get people sorted out?
1. When a person drinks too much and vomits, just make sure that he sits and bends forward when vomiting so that the vomits is not aspirated into the respiratory system. If that happens there can be complications like asphyxia or pneumonia.
2. Walking, waving arms, breathing fresh air will not help. Only time will bring down the alcohol level in the blood. It takes one hour for the body to get rid of one drink.
3. If you are a coordinator, you cannot get drunk. It affects your reflexes, judgment.
Rule, Law or awareness will not help indoxicating mind but can only prevent from availability of the toxic poisonous drink from the public availability. But the governments for want of huge Budget Income really give vide publicity to influence peaople to drink themaximum possible and spent money on unwanted awareness. In both the way the government as well as the public are loosers of money as well as health and life.When it is stopped or banned people will be happy to see that t
