Abstract
Over time, substance abuse has been under extensive research from scholars. The topic is prevalent in various areas and more so in the education sector. Most individuals fail to understand the significant difference between substance abuse and addiction. The ideas tend to revolve in the same realm. Therefore, this paper strives to elaborate on addiction and how they are related to mood disorders. Also, the paper delves into the causes and reasons why someone can be involved in a substance abuse, which can lead to mood disorders. The causes of drug addiction are also illustrated giving out the way one can be influenced and be involved with the causative factors. Finally, the way to prevent and avoid substance abuse is depicted together with the mitigation measure.
Introduction
Mood disorders comprising downheartedness and bipolar conditions are amongst the supreme public psychiatric comorbidities amongst individuals with affluence usage illnesses. Handling patients co-occurring temperament syndromes might moderate their drug longing and compelling improve their effects. A meticulous, theatrical selection and evaluation can reduce the analytic experiment of personal indications of dynamic symptoms after the appearance of substance alcoholism and departure. Cures ought to make the most of the usage of psychotherapeutic involvements and offer foremost deliberation to drugs verified operational in the circumstance of co-occurring affluence misapplication. Therefore, several reasons and causes are associated with substance abuse and mood disorder. Nevertheless, the psychiatrist and scientist research on the truth concerning the relationship of addiction and mood disorder.
Mood or affective disorder can be grouped as either depressing or bipolar; nevertheless, various research findings show that psychiatric illness majorly occurs along with drug abuse disorders. The blend has severe clinical outcomes. However, mood disorders suppress a clinical course, medication results, and diagnosis of each problem. Modern mitigation of the disorder should aim at the full recovery of the original state of the affected the individual (Dao et al., 2010). Effectively treating mood disorders can also help a victim overcome the urge to indulge in drug abuse.
Literature Review
Many scientists are conducting experiments that could lead to having a single mechanism to tackle both drug abuse and mood disorders. This paper seeks to explain how drug abuse and mood disorder are related, a way of handling affected individuals. It also delves into how the affected can be assisted (Bessa et al., 2010). Nevertheless, various psychological studies have assessed the predominance psychological and substance abuse disorders in many ways. Researchers have conducted analytical consultations investigations in diverse representative public samples of adults and the youth. The studies have a given a well-substantiated report that proves mood disorder is linked to substance abuse.
Another scientific study also shows that majority depression among middle-aged persons causes them to take drugs (Dao et al., 2010). Surprisingly after taking the drugs, the individuals were reported to be more depressed than before. The drug could make the individuals feel ecstatic for a short period, but afterward, they were more depressed. Addiction comes in when people want to continue being high so as not to be affected by mood swings. The condition over time affects the brain functioning of the individual further complicating their state. They became purely dependent on the drugs to an extent they can do. If anything happens and affected individuals are denied access to the drug, their conditions become worse that necessitates medical attention. Many people across the world still do not understand the relationship that exists between mood ailments and using non-prescribed drugs. Today, numerous publication are seeking to explain how anxiety disorders are related to the ever-increasing use of drugs. Other journals are trying to explain that irrespective of the nature of mood complications; there is always an associated abused drug in the individual.
A commentary on the treatment of persons with substance abuse disorders suggests that there should be an elaborate understanding of the psychological disorders. The articles explain that patients seeking treatment should first be clustered to establish their history of involvement in the misuse of drugs (Bessa et al., 2010). It further states that there is a little examination of the nature of drugs the affected person use, which causes the treatment process to be long and cumbersome. There exist documented facts that effects of substance abuse on an individual influence the mental well-being of their family member, workmates, and friends. Many families have complained of the difficulties they face when it comes to dealing with drug addicts. Human beings who are under the influence of drugs are hard to be understood.
Mostly, they involve themselves in confrontational activities that do not please another member of the family. Chronic absenteeism from places of work has been reported and the cause attributed to improper mood or influence of drugs. At workplaces, the productivity of a worker become compromised, as the drugs will have weakened their physical body, affected their analytical abilities, and made them lose morale of working. Many families have reported divorce cases, which are attributed to either mood ailments or substance misuse. For a person addicted to drugs, they rarely have time for their families making their lovers complain of being neglected or overlooked (Swendsen et al., 2010). Continuous misunderstanding has been reported to cause relationships to end. On a daily basis leading magazine, shave reported case of individuals spending all their fortunes on un-prescribed drugs further making their life miserable.
Learning institutions are also carrying out studies to establish the special effects of physical abuse on mood results among various groups of people in the world. Some men and women are scrutinized to determine the influence drug mishandling and the psychological conditions in them. The groups are monitored for some months before conclusions about hem are made. After the period, certain information on some aspects is found (Dao et al., 2010). Common the data gathered is on mood condition, and stability and frequency of mood are changing.Also, how often depression takes place in the individuals is taken note. Post-traumatic stress complications have been observed to cause difficulties in sleeping or inability to perform basic tasks. During the study, some individuals were also observed to feeling tense many times, having hungry outbursts due to stress and feeling dizzy. The extent to which a given drug affects an individual can be based on gender, age, and overall health condition of a person. For example, children are more affected than adults, as reflected by the consumption of equivalent amounts.
The two broad categories of mood disorder are bipolar, and major depressing disorder is designated as troubled temperament, conduct, and excitement. Bipolar type is said to be complicated with its main characteristic being pathological instability in emotion varying from extreme excitement to everyday depression. Plain depression is followed by a disturbed way of thinking and uncontrollable behaviors (Bessa et al., 2010; Dao et al., 2010). Hallucination effect has also been common to individuals with this type of disorder. Renowned scholars are of the opinion that in future bipolar vulnerability gene will be invented.
Many psychologists agree that there exist two very common substance-related disorder. The two are substance consumption disorder and substance prompted disorder. In case an individual is found to be having substance dependency disorder, they can be assisted by being administered with certain specifiers (Bostwick, Boyd, Hughes, & McCabe, 2010). The specifiers can be specified through or deprived of psychological dependence. The Specifiers are an indefinite way of reduction, on agonist rehabilitation and in an organized setting.
The numerous sources of information show that there is a high dominance mood disorder among those who abuse drugs. The well-illustrated relation between drug addiction and mood disorder should necessitate the development of a mechanism to counter their growth among the people. Measures to be taken should be used the best methodology to handle the problem at hand. There is a need to put in place communal structures supported by policy to encounter and mitigate the effect of the disorders. The following constitute some of the findings that were established by the study.
People who abuse multiple drugs have more complications as compared to those who abuse single drugs. The mood difficulties of individuals who take a combination of drugs are also more complex compared to those who take fewer drugs.It is not surprising considering the different elements in a drug account t for some complications thus increasing the number of this features automatically increases associated complications.
Discussion
The age at which people in the modern society start using drugs is also worrying. A comparative analysis between the current state and rate of drug abuse and mental ailments to how the situation was a decade ago is a definite progression. Some factors have contributed to the phenomena. For one, the ease of access has enabled underage individuals to obtain the same with minimal resistance (Dao et al., 2010).
Technological advancement whereby the drugs are obtained online and delivered to client’s doorstep at the touch of a button has also fueled the spread of substance abuse. Social media sites have been a common meeting ground where peddlers of such drugs meet their potential customers who might be far away with ease. Negligence on the part of the parent to advise their children on the responsible use of narcotics is also to be blamed for the rise in cases of drug misuse. Peer influence has not done any better to help salvage the situation. Instead, it has acted to promote and champion irresponsible usage of drugs. The high rate of crime and dropping out of school among the youth is a pure proof of the rising number of people affected by the use of drugs and affected mentally.
Founded on some written articles, sound policy should be developed to help various groups of people who happen to victims of both mood disorder and substance abuse (Swendsen et al., 2010). A multidimensional and interrelated to counter the problems caused by the two disorder should be formulated. All stakeholder should work in unison find a solution to the challenges currently being experienced in the society due to the disorders.Furthermore, dependence is tranquilizing, and fascinating substances to treat the disorder should be investigated to determine their suitability. A more cohesive treatment of constituent abuse and cerebral health problems should be invented. The treatment is necessary considering the destructive effect of dual analysis on someone’s general wellbeing has been causing (Bessa et al., 2010). There is a multiplicity of mechanisms used to find the relationship, similarity, and differences between mood disorders and substance abuse. A longitudinal perspective would best use to ensure findings are a logical and above reproach.
Conclusion
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