Funny how when you think you resolve something once and come to a mutual resolution, how you end up somehow having the same conversation as if you never had it before. What, that hasn't happened to you? Happens to me several times a month. For me particularly, this happens with medication related issues.
Time for a pharmacology lesson. Each medication has a half life, or amount of time it takes for the medication to be half as effective as it was when it was first taken. So if the half-life of a medication is 4 hours per-se, then if you take 10mg of something, 4 hours later there will be 5mg left in your blood stream. So if you are feeling like after 4 hours something is no longer effective, that might be partially true. Now after 4 hours if you take another 10mg dose, you have 15 mg in your body. The more you keep taking, the higher the amount in your system. So more is not better....eventually things don't have as much of a desired effect because there is so much of a substance in your system, that the difference is negligible. When it gets that bad, your body can go through withdrawals if you do not keep feeding your body with the substance it has become accustomed to having in it all of the time.
Why on earth am I talking about this? Good question. I am talking about this because if you are in contact with a person who is in the position of taking something so much that they could go into withdrawal, the reasoning/information above does not compute. They don"t care if that's the truth or not, nor do they care about the effects that this can have on people in their life. It may even be the case that they have a valid reason for taking a substance...but when that substance that is taken beyond the recommended dose purposely to feel a reaction....that is abuse. That is a problem. The drug that is supposed to help, will end up hurting more than helping. Not only hurting the user, but the people around the user. Don't wait to get help. Do it as soon as you find out. If you don't, you are only prolonging the inevitable.
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