Drug abuse, in a nutshell, is using drugs incorrectly and excessively. Drug abuse happens when people become very compulsive in using a certain drug substance even if they recognize that such drug poses negative and dangerous effects. Drug abuse causes drug dependence. When people become physically dependent on a drug, they cannot function without its presence in the body. Excessive physical dependence on drugs lead to complete destruction of health both of the mind and the body, and so drug users when caught must be helped and convinced to undergo a drug abuse treatment program. Drug abuse treatment can only start when drug users start to acknowledge that they have a problem. When drug users deny that they are in a negative situation, the situation of course cannot be overturned into positive. Before, medical professionals considered denial as one of the symptoms of drug abuse. Today, it is not anymore, as dozens of research shows that denial is subjected to the way treatment facilitators and loved ones treat people addicted to the substance. The more empathy and understanding drug abusers draw from people around them, the lesser is the tendency that they show denial. Drug abuse treatment generally consists of drug ...

Drug use and drug abuse have been among the greatest problems in the world for the last three decades. Even if the issue was addressed through huge and powerful anti drug campaigns in the past few years, governments of various countries still find difficulty to stop the growing population of drug users. In Hollywood, a number of actors and models have been caught using drugs, their faces bannering the front page of newspapers, tabloids and magazines, the stories mostly focusing on how they enrolled in drug treatment centers, and failed. Sadly, the continuous production of such stories in a way tinges a hue of glamor in drug treatment centers, making them a source of limelight rather than healing and recovery. There is more in drug treatment centers than social exclusion. Drug treatment centers aim to bring people who have been terribly addicted to substances back to the state when they were living normally. Basically, drug treatment centers design their treatment programs with three fundamental steps: detoxification, rehabilitation, and counseling. In detoxification, patients are given procedures to take the substance completely away from the body. They are also closely monitored in regards with the negative responses of their body when drug use ...