Marijuana Addiction - The Addicted Brain

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.