I just wanted to post an excerpt from a recent post which is relevant to the nature of marijuana addiction.
“Dear Eric,
Addiction itself is something in your head. Your brain gets addicted; not your body. "physical addiction and psyhological addiction" definitions are old dated now. Addiction is a neurological disorder which arises after prolonged substance use. Each substance has its own addictive properties of course, and it's true that weed may not be addictive for most of the people. But it's also hell out of a true that it can be very addictive for some people. Hence, each individual's brain respond to drugs differently. If you are addicted and when you stop using the drug, you may have physical and psychological withdrawel symptoms and people have a tendency to think that "harder physical symptoms mean that the addiction is worse". It's not true at all in my opinion. With the advanced medications, physical withdrawel symptoms of even heroin can be alleviated. It's the underlying neurological disorder which needs to me examined very carefully with its psychological, behavioral and social aspects.
You can find the criterias to diagnose a person for the disorder called "compulsive drug seek and use" in the below link.
http://www.addictionsandrecovery.org...-addiction.htm
I write these because the first thing you should do is to have a better understanding of your problem. And if you hang around this forum for a while, you will see that "stomach problems, lack of eating and burping" are not the worst things that you may experience as a consuqence of weed dependency. You are at 18 now, and you are at the beginnig of creating a life for yourself. If weed gets to you, it can also get your life. Weed is the most sneaky drug which at first seems to come with no harm, but years later you see that you did nothing in the world but smoked weed.
I'm sorry if i wrote too harshly but imagining you as a 28 years old man who wasted all his potential and life by weed is far more too harsh. You're 18 now, and there are infinite possibilites in the world that you could do for yourself. If you think that weed has become a problem for you, please take all the precautions now, because problem is only getting bigger and bigger by the time.
In my opinion, the most important part of the quitting lies in the understanding of the seriousness of the problem. If you do that, i'm sure at the end you will succeed.
Regards,”
You can read the full thread here
Young daily smoker trying to quit marijuana Forum.
Marijuana Addiction Forum.
Wednesday 24 November 2010
Saturday 20 November 2010
Marijuana addiction test
Marijuana addiction test
The following 7 questions are based and established upon the American Psychological Association’s clinical diagnosis test of marijuana addiction, and if you truthfully answer Yes to 3 or more of the following questions regarding your behaviour for over the last year, then indeed according to them, you’re addicted to marijuana.
1. Have you tried in the past to at least cut down on your smoking or totally quit, but failed?
2. Could you use more and more of this drug than you used to be able to? Do you need more to get high or just to feel or experience similar effects?
3. Have you ceased doing things which you used to enjoy just because of your smoking habit?
4. Have you ever spent a lot of your time on getting high, working to acquire cash to get high or merely thinking about getting high?
5. Have you ever smoked more than you had planned on smoking? For instance, do you ever have a joint, a few hours or minutes before work, and rather than stopping at one, find yourself very high a few hours later as you begin your work?
6. Do you still continue to use even after you begin to feel and experience unfavourable and detrimental social and health effects? You still continue to use at the similar level or extent even as you notice or observe, that the drug is already affecting your capacity to think and focus, or is having a negative effect on your school grades or work performance.
7. Did you ever begin to feel anxious or apprehensive if you cannot get any of this drug? And have you ever taken another drug instead when there’s no marijuana around?
So, what’s your real score? This is just one way of diagnosing if your cannabis use has become a problem, there are numerous others reasons for why it may have become a problem, including the fact because you feel it has. But never the less seven questions anybody who uses marijuana should ask themselves.
I run a forum that offers advice and support to those who are trying to quit marijuana. To speak to others who are there, or have been there visit the Cannabis Addiction Forum.
The following 7 questions are based and established upon the American Psychological Association’s clinical diagnosis test of marijuana addiction, and if you truthfully answer Yes to 3 or more of the following questions regarding your behaviour for over the last year, then indeed according to them, you’re addicted to marijuana.
1. Have you tried in the past to at least cut down on your smoking or totally quit, but failed?
2. Could you use more and more of this drug than you used to be able to? Do you need more to get high or just to feel or experience similar effects?
3. Have you ceased doing things which you used to enjoy just because of your smoking habit?
4. Have you ever spent a lot of your time on getting high, working to acquire cash to get high or merely thinking about getting high?
5. Have you ever smoked more than you had planned on smoking? For instance, do you ever have a joint, a few hours or minutes before work, and rather than stopping at one, find yourself very high a few hours later as you begin your work?
6. Do you still continue to use even after you begin to feel and experience unfavourable and detrimental social and health effects? You still continue to use at the similar level or extent even as you notice or observe, that the drug is already affecting your capacity to think and focus, or is having a negative effect on your school grades or work performance.
7. Did you ever begin to feel anxious or apprehensive if you cannot get any of this drug? And have you ever taken another drug instead when there’s no marijuana around?
So, what’s your real score? This is just one way of diagnosing if your cannabis use has become a problem, there are numerous others reasons for why it may have become a problem, including the fact because you feel it has. But never the less seven questions anybody who uses marijuana should ask themselves.
I run a forum that offers advice and support to those who are trying to quit marijuana. To speak to others who are there, or have been there visit the Cannabis Addiction Forum.
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