Effects of Drugs & Alcohol

21/10/2024

Did you Know? "The chosen few aren't born; they're made."

Bible Verse: "And we know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him and are called according to his purpose." (Romans 8:28)

21/10/2024

Did you Know?" The path to success isn't reserved; it's earned."

Bible Verse: "The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the understanding, nor favor to the skillful, but time and chance happen to them all." (Ecclesiastes 9:11)

21/10/2024

Did you Know? "Success isn't a lottery; it's a choice."

Bible Verse: "For whatever a person sows, that will he also reap." (Galatians 6:7)

18/04/2024

FEELINGS

* We are human beings and we are alive to the extent we are capable of experiencing
variety of feelings.
* All feelings are natural and neutral.
* There is nothing good or bad about them.
* They can be pleasant or unpleasant.

18/04/2024

Self Awareness and Human development

Self Awareness is a very vital life awareness skill. It is intended to give participants am opportunity to explore and discover more of who and what they are. Exploring ones personality or character with the view to understanding one's strength and weakness.

MEANING OF SELF AWARENESS.
- Knowledge and understanding of oneself. (Strengths and weakness).
- Insight into one's character and personality traits.
- Examination of how one's character affects others.

Knowledge about what is going on around your space ( , , , , and ) can help you navigate your way around issues that affect the way you think, believe and behave.
- If we are aware of pain, then we want to do something because it's physical and emotional.
- helps us to be drivers of our lives, rather than a passenger.
- If we are aware of how we feel, we can deal with these feelings rather than suppress them and then let those feelings unknown to us, drive us to some actions which are either not acceptable to us or others.

24/03/2024

Signs and Symptoms of AIDS - The World Health Organisation has produced a clinical AIDS defintion for Africa. In adults it is defined by the existence of two major signs and one minor sign in the absense of other known causes of immune suppression.

Major Symptoms

- loss of 10% of body weight with a short period.
- chronic diarrhea persisting for more than a month.
- chronic fever persisting for more than a month.

Minor Signs

- Persistent cough for more than a month.
- generalized itchy lesion (dermatitis).
- Recurrent herpes zoster (shingles) commonly known as "mulilo wa nyambe", "vipyazimu" or "umulilo wakwa lesa".
- oral candidiasis (thrush)
-Generalized lymphadenopthy.

24/03/2024

ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS (ARVS)

These are drugs that are used to treat AIDS symptoms. When properly used, they improve the quality of an HIV infected person's life thereby enabling the person to become healthy and productive. Antiretroviral drugs should be taken for life following the clinicians instructions. They have side effects but these do not last for a very long time and easily be dealt with if one follows instructions on how to deal with them.

HOW DO ARVS WORK?

1. Reduce viral load; (stop HIV from invading immune cells, slow down the viral replication in the infected immune cells).
2. They improve the immune functioning.
3. They reduce the occurrences of opportunistic infections.
4. They increase vitality.
5. They improve the general health status of an individual.

18/04/2023

18/04/2023

Being a husband and father is a big responsibility for any man, but it becomes added responsibility and more like a burden if he has to take care of his physically challenged wife and son. This is the case for 53-year-old Davison Phiri of Edward Village of Nyimba in Zambia’s Eastern Province.

09/04/2023

HIS WIFE DIED IN LABOUR TOGETHER WITH HIS BABY UPON DELIVERY, AFTER 5 YEARS OF A CHILDLESS MARRIAGE. THIS WAS THE BEGINNING OF MISERY, ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE.

Before I got to know more about the Great North Road Rehab Centre, I was pushed away by its name, I thought it was a place of high profiled people like the name sounds ” GREAT” but it’s actually about the life-changing work they do and so far they are the best and most affordable Rehabilitation Centre in Zambia.

It was so painful on my part watching my young brother die slowly because of drugs and alcohol. I wasted a lot of time talking to him about the dangers of drugs and alcohol and how they destroyed his body. I invited elders of my family, his friends and also church members to talk to him, but all our efforts proved futile. I took him to the hospital and other health mental facilities to seek medical attention, but he was still going back to his behaviour. Yes, all my effort were in vain.

I don’t blame him for anything (May his soul rest in peace). I learnt it was hard for him to accept the occurrence. He started abusing drugs and alcohol after his wife died during labour together with his beautiful baby. It was heartbreaking, after staying for 5 years in marriage without a child and all he got was unbelievable heart wrecking news. He became so weak, and all his strength was taken to drugs and alcohol.

Six months after the death of his wife and a baby. I could not recognize my brother anymore, it worried me. I saw him wasting his precious life to nothing. I was not ready for his death, especially when he was diagnosed with lung failure, his kidneys were completely worn out and his liver was inflamed, worse still he became a real junk, at the same time, we were mourning our parents who died in a car accident two months before the death of his wife and a baby. Their absence was still hurting and his drinking habit was getting worse. He kept hallucinating over his wife and the baby and this began to affect his mental health. Abusing drugs using injections became a daily habit.

The day I took a step to go to the Rehab Center and inquire about what they were all about, I was shocked that it was the easiest thing ever to do, till this day I blamed myself for not knowing about the Centre when my brother was still alive.

This is my appeal to those who have family members, friends or neighbors who abuse drugs and alcohol. Take a step of faith now and help save a life that you will regret losing because of delaying to take a responsible step and that step is coming to seek help at the Great North Road Rehab Centre. To this day, I am still regretting the death of my only brother. R.I.P Joseph.
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