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need. According to the National Health Interview Survey, 2008,
Hispanic adults are the largest ethnic group
that consumes the most alcohol in the United States. The
Hispanic / Latino population is considered more
accurately as a mosaic of cultures. The different Hispanic
groups reflect great ethnic and cultural differences
and have few common characteristics. The Hispanic community
covering the entire spectrum racial Hispanicscan be white,
African-Americans, Asians or Native Americans. Moreover, diversity
extends to nationality,
customs, ancestry, lifestyle and socioeconomic status. In the
Hispanic community there are similarities
especially related to language (Spanish) and religion
(Catholic), profound differences in background and lifeexperiences
among the various groups directly affect their health. The Latino /
Hispanic according to the latest
census in New York reaches 2867.583, representing 15.1% and is
composed mainly originating in the
Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, El
Salvador. Hispanics reside mostly in New
York City, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, and Albany Amherst.
Addiction and abuse drugs and alcohol affect
the entire mosaic Hispanic cultures.
Society imposes stigma and creates damage to addicts and their
families, because many of us still believe that
addiction is a character flaw or weakness that probably cannot
be cured. Addiction is a chronic relapsing brain
disease characterized by compulsive seeking and drug use,
despite harmful consequences. It is considered a
brain disease because drugs change the brain change its
structure and how it works. These changes can last a
long time and lead to harmful behaviors seen in people who abuse
drugs.
The stigma against people with addictions is so deeply rooted in
society that continues even in the face of
scientific evidence that addiction is a treatable illness and
even though we know that people in our families and
the diverse communities that live wonderful lives long-term
recovery, because addiction is a disease that
affects the brain.
The stigma is the reason why there are so many legal and social
discrimination of people with addictions. This
explains why addicts and their families seek to hide the
disease. Agencies that deal with this illness become
police enforce, to report the patient relapses suffered to the
justice system rather than trying to explain therelapse and seek
appropriate treatment. This practice creates the stigma that the
patient is a "criminal" that does
not cure the disease because addiction is a process over time
that courses through various stages and
characteristics change according to the severity of the problem.
People often have to add one or two medical
problems associated with addiction, including pulmonary and
cardiovascular diseases, stroke, or
cerebrovascular attacks, various cancers and mental disorders,
recent studies show that often is the coexistence
of Abuse drug and mental disorders and in some cases, mental
diseases may precede addiction; in other cases,
drug abuse may trigger or exacerbate mental disorders,
particularly in people with specific vulnerabilities.
Stigma only hides and distorts the scientific evidence about the
disease.
Discrimination stigmatizes people with the disease of addiction
because they are excluded from the rules that
apply to "normal" people. Insurance companies often refuse to
pay for treatment of alcohol or drugs, orcharging higher
deductibles and co-payments for treatment of other illnesses.
People who need help are often
afraid to speak.
State and federal agencies feel safe in denying food stamps and
infant formula to mothers who have drug
convictions because mothers who have used drugs a few supporters
in the political system and a lot of faces of
people who think they must be "bad mothers ". Clearly, this
stigma is based on nonscientific criteria but on the
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perception that the addict or the addict likes this kind of
life, including the stigma is in the health professionals
that are expressed in commentaries based on creating social
prejudices a stigma of the person who needs help.
In the judicial system is most evident through the penalty.
Addiction is a primary disease that affects the brain,
consisting of a set of characteristic signs and symptoms.The origin
of addiction is engaging multifactorial biological, genetic,
psychological, and social. Studies show
that there are neurochemical changes involved in people with
addictive disorders and also there biogenetic
predisposition to develop this disease. The neurochemistry of
addiction is much clearer now because research
in the last decade.It attributes the meso limbic system, locus
of addictive disorder. Denial, deception and
distortions of thought typical of addiction, form a
well-nourished delusional system trapping the addict in acircle of
deterioration. Addiction is a treatable disease and recovery is
possible.
Although studies have found that helps employees to recover is
more profitable than the end, some employersbelieve that firing an
employee with a drinking problem is much easier to provide
rehabilitation. A storm of
protests that arise if employers treated workers with cancer or
heart disease in the same way.
People who are victims of stigma internalize the hate that leads
to transformation of shame and concealment of
its effects. Too often, people with drug and alcohol problems
and their families begin to accept the ideas that
addiction is their own fault and that may be too weak to do
anything about it. In many ways, lies a problem of
addiction is rational to seeking help because it can mean losing
their jobs and health insurance, or even the loss
of his son when a social service agency declares that a parent
unfit because it has an alcohol or drug problem.
The stress of hiding often causes other medical problems such as
depression for people and their families. This
is especially true when a teen has a drug or alcohol problem.
Fear often asks children and young people to hide
the problem from parents. So when parents discover, stigma makes
them feel guilty and somehow negligent.
Illness and family dysfunction explode. When that happens,
parents find it even harder to fight for the care and
resources for your child badly in need of social and medical
system that blames the family, mother, father,child or young person
suffering from this disease. Treatment for addiction is a series of
structured clinical
interventions in a way that is useful to promote and support the
recovery of a person affected by addiction to a
better quality of life.
Each person is a different person with different life situations
and different needs. The individualization of
treatment is a key factor in the ultimate success of treatment,
as indicated by recent research on the subject.
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