How to Recognize Alcohol & Drug Addiction : The Effects of Withdrawal From Addiction
Learn about the effects of withdrawal from addiction in this free home health video. Expert: John DePalma Bio: John DePalma received a CASAC degree from Queens College and has been counseling drug abusers for over five years. Filmmaker: Buccola Richard
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PinkGrapes10 says:
I remember my daddy coming home from rehab every couple of years or so, and he shook and sweat like crazy. It scared me. I was only little; no child should have to see their parent go through something as painful as withdrawal symptoms.
M1thotyn says:
Uhh, that’s not what withdrawals are. You’re saying that withdrawals are merely the time between consuming the substance someone is addicted to. No, withdrawals are a physiological response that effect every organ in the body. Alcohol withdrawals for example: Heart rate spikes, blood pressure spikes, stroke and seizure activity emerges, shakes develop, hallucinations can occur. It’s not just merely the time between usage. No wonder this video has a low rating.
justanotherLESkid says:
oh god dide they really turn this into another religiuous banter?
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mathias7777777777777 says:
Hi Dazed, you say atheists require evidence. I have a challenge for you. Do you believe that your position is more likely to be nearer to or closer to the truth than theism? If you don’t, why then are you an atheist? If you do, then what evidence do you have to support your position that atheism is truer than or at least more likely to be nearer to the truth than theism? A simple question.
ZELIG500 says:
I’m bored. I work for a living. Two jobs. Maybe I’ll pick this up again later.
DazedExistence says:
For one, attacking my ID is proof enough that you can’t understand the idea that it is based on the concept of living in an absurd world without drugs. The fact is your ideas are not only wrong based only on evidence, but wrong on ethical grounds too. If you are going to fight, do it with facts and evidence, not with attacks against me. Stick with the argument, and I will too. I think you are intelligent and know better than to attack me as a person, so prove it, or prove me wrong.
ZELIG500 says:
Your user ID says more than I ever could. Is that hominenen enough for you? And you’re a bore. You’re like a dog that barks at a car. Car’s gone, dog’s still barking. At what? Don’t know. Don’t care. As for God, there are some drawn to that mystery, I say let them be. Its your aggressive aggrandizement of atheism that scares many religious people away from working toward a world were all beliefs, religious and philosophical, can exist together harmoniously.
DazedExistence says:
Am I on drugs? That would figure to be your argument, your an addiction counselor, anyone who disagrees with you must be on drugs, right? No, addiction is a biological/social issue, not a religious issue. And if you did your homework, you’d realize that you haven’t responded to a single argument, you pull ad hominem claims against me. Note how you attack me, but don’t respond only to the arguments themselves. And “lake of fire” was theoretical, it still represents what you have shown to believe.
ZELIG500 says:
Your zeal has made you blind to reasoned debate. I’m not talking about the Bible. One of my past posts clearly states that I don’t believe God lives in any house of worship or the Bible. Do your homework. A simple review would reveal that all I’ve ever claimed is that faith dares the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see. Lake of fire? Are you on drugs?
DazedExistence says:
Circular reasoning, glad you mentioned that: The Bible is correct because it is the word of God. It is the word of God because the Bible says so. Therefore, the Bible is the word of God. That is the definition of intellectual laziness. How can arguments be conformist if most Americans believe in God? If it’s conformist, it can’t be risqué. If it’s risqué, it can’t be conformist. Make up your mind. Furthermore, no athiest believes you will burn in a lake of fire, but you do, and that’s sadistic
ZELIG500 says:
Circular reasoning is legitimate due to circular reasoning being legitimate. That’s what I hear.
Anti-religious people are as bad as fundamentalists in their fashionable left wing absolutism.
There is so much intellectual laziness behind what passes for religion bashing today. People who like to attack religion think they’re being risqué. Most of their arguments are just conformist and insipid.
DazedExistence says:
I never claimed to know everything, in fact, that’s the whole point…I don’t. That’s why I require evidence and make judgements based on facts. And Einstein wasn’t a Christian btw, he was a deist. There is a big difference. Furthermore, Hitler professed to be Catholic and even if he lied, his troops who commited the murders themselves were absolutely religious. Stalin was an athiest, but he founded a political system that was religious in nature. Political ideas are often religion in disguise.
ZELIG500 says:
I’m not like you. I don’t know everything. I do know however that the greatest scientific geniuses in history were devout Christians—and scientists from Newton to Einstein insisted that biblical religion provided the key ideas from which experimental science could develop. The Crusades, the Inquisition, the Galileo affair, and witch hunts together make up less than 1% of the murders that have occurred during modern atheist regimes like Stalin, Hitler, and Mao.
DazedExistence says:
No ZELIG, an athiest doesn’t believe in magic, a religious person does. We require evidence, you require faith. We can prove things through reasoning, you claim things through wishful thinking. And PLEASE do yourself a favor and read a book on evolution, you created a straw man argument b/c you obviously don’t understand it.
hilzor says:
I’m not commenting on your supposed expertise in recovery care/rehabilitation, I’m commenting on your overwhelming ignorance towards the sciences.
ZELIG500 says:
How about you stick to what you know and leave recovery from alcohol and drug abuse to those of us in the field. I have reached many a hopeless addict without ever mentioning abiogenesis. When it works, it’s usually through a blend of self care, group therapy and spirituality.
hilzor says:
To say that abiogenesis isn’t popular is about as off as one can get. It is currently THE most favored view on the origin of life amongst biologists, biochemists, et al. Please quite spouting disinformation.
hilzor says:
You should be aware that Pasteur’s ideas surrounding spontaneous generation aren’t an “absolute” in the same way that Koch’s postulates aren’t an absolute (because Koch, for example, could not have foreseen viruses, and his postulate doesn’t apply to the bacteria that causes syphilis, as an example). It should also be noted that the current biological definition of life is different from the original definition, and will change again.
ZELIG500 says:
Furthemore, it seems that as eminent a scientist as Luis Pasteur demostrated that life does not currently spontaneously arise in complex form from nonlife in nature. Abiogenesis is just a theory and not a very popular one outside rabidly ahtiestic circles. Have you considered prayer? You may not find god, but you almost surely will find more serenity, more tolerance, less fear, and less anger. You may acquire a QUIET courage.
ZELIG500 says:
You couldn’t be more wrong about what I believe. I don’t have all the answers (that must be nice) .. but I have a strong feeling that God doesn’t live in the church, the synagogue, the mosque or the temple … not even the Bible. Those are human creations, but people with that faith don’t threaten me. It just t has nothing to do with my faith. I can however spot someone who is restless, irritable and discontent. They numb it by taking other people’s inventories.
hilzor says:
Nice demonstration of your ignorance of abiogenesis. There doesn’t have to be a reason for natural phenomena to occur. Does lightning or sunshine have to have a “reason”, or like most things in life, does it simply happen?
Then again, you believe that a bored sky wizard created a dirt-man and a rib-woman, who were conned into eating a magical fruit by a talking snake, and the damnable sin was that they sought knowledge (because as you’ve proven, god loves ignorance).
ZELIG500 says:
I wish you’d come into the high schools, detoxes and rehabs I work in … then keep spreading that message. Most of the YOUTUBE generation doesn’t believe in marijuana addiction. I see it over and over again. Marijuana addiction doesn’t mean someone is going to steal or rob to score — although it does happen. What usually happens is that the person obsesses about not having any, gets irritable and depressed … and goes through all the low self esteem issues … and that can be dangerous too.
ZELIG500 says:
This guy’s comments would be better taken if the doofus who produced it knew how to spell withdrawal.
ZELIG500 says:
So you’re an athiest. You believe that there was nothing and nothing happened to nothing and then nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and then a bunch of everything magically rearranged itself for no reason whatsover into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs. Makes perfect sense.