After Care 4- Secondary Addiction

                                                           Secondary Addiction  

Objectives:

To understand the concept of secondary or shifting addiction.

To recognize the shifting of addiction from primary addiction to secondary. 

To identify the shifting addiction and its harmful consequences.

Addiction

Its a neurological Disease and there are different types of addiction.

please click on the link below to avail some more info on Addiction and how it affects the brain.

https://youtu.be/qjyvRQFbseQ

Primary and Secondary addiction

Primary addiction are strongest and longest lasting addiction for which individual avail treatment and rehabilitation services.

Secondary addiction are mostly experienced by individuals after their treatment and rehabilitation.

eg. sex addiction, gambling addiction and other behavioral addiction.

please watch this video link for more info https://youtu.be/CxqtP81MALY

Commonly used secondary substances in Bhutan leading to addiction 

1. Cigarrete
2. Biri
3. Doma
4. BABA
5. Vape
6. Shikhar/Rajnigandha etc....

Harmful consequences of Chewing/Smoking Tobacco 

Pros and cons of stopping or chewing doma, baba,shikhar 

Why does secondary addiction happen

Secondary addiction develop in individuals due to the following reasons:

1. individuals search for pleasure and try to recreate a type of high/euphoric moments.
2. people are trying to distract themselves from discomfort or emotional pain.

How to prevent developing from secondary addiction?

These secondary addictions arises because of a need to escape but if we have effective tools for dealing with life, this desire to escape will be much less of an issue.

It can be helpful for individuals to maintain a journal after his or her treatment and rehabilitation program to recognize clues of activities or emotions that could trigger craving for substances or prompt them to compulsively engage in a behavior.

If individuals in recovery pay attention to their secondary addictions they may find clues that further enhance personal growth and emotional health.

please watch this video to avail info on recognizing secondary addiction and understanding what triggers are and its impact on individuals  https://youtu.be/jjc65_EctjU

https://youtu.be/XvDTOW5MaUU

sum up

understand the concept of secondary or shifting addiction.

recognize the shifting of addiction from primary addiction to secondary. 

identify the shifting addiction and its harmful consequences.

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