Global Health Revival

04/08/2023

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27/10/2022

This is GLOBAL HEALTH REVIVAL. Today's topic is understanding addiction.

Understanding addiction
New Insights into the Causes of Addiction
Alcoholic drink in the foreground, flanked by curled fingers of an inebriated woman resting her chin on edge of the table behind
Addiction involves craving for something intensely, loss of control over its use, and continuing involvement with it despite adverse consequences. Addiction changes the brain, first by subverting the way it registers pleasure and then by corrupting other normal drives such as learning and motivation. Although breaking an addiction is tough, it can be done.

What causes addiction?
The word “addiction” is derived from a Latin term for “enslaved by” or “bound to.” Anyone who has struggled to overcome an addiction—or has tried to help someone else to do so—understands why.

Addiction exerts a long and powerful influence on the brain that manifests in three distinct ways: craving for the object of addiction, loss of control over its use, and continuing involvement with it despite adverse consequences.

For many years, experts believed that only alcohol and powerful drugs could cause addiction. Neuroimaging technologies and more recent research, however, have shown that certain pleasurable activities, such as gambling, shopping, and s*x, can also co-opt the brain.

Although a standard U.S. diagnostic manual (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition or DSM-IV) describes multiple addictions, each tied to a specific substance or activity, the consensus is emerging that these may represent multiple expressions of a common underlying brain process.

New insights into a common problem
Nobody starts out intending to develop an addiction, but many people get caught in its snare. Consider the latest government statistics:

Nearly 23 million Americans—almost one in 10—are addicted to alcohol or other drugs.
More than two-thirds of people with addiction abuse alcohol.
The top three drugs causing addiction are ma*****na, opioid (narcotic) pain relievers, and co***ne.
In the 1930s, when researchers first began to investigate what caused addictive behavior, they believed that people who developed addictions were somehow morally flawed or lacking in willpower. Overcoming addiction, they thought, involved punishing miscreants or, alternately, encouraging them to muster the will to break a habit.

The scientific consensus has changed since then. Today we recognize addiction as a chronic disease that changes both brain structure and function. Just as cardiovascular disease damages the heart and diabetes impairs the pancreas, addiction hijacks the brain. This happens as the brain goes through a series of changes, beginning with the recognition of pleasure and ending with a drive toward compulsive behavior.

Pleasure principle
The brain registers all pleasures in the same way, whether they originate with a psychoactive drug, a monetary reward, a s*xual encounter, or a satisfying meal. In the brain, pleasure has a distinct signature: the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine in the nucleus accumbens, a cluster of nerve cells lying underneath the cerebral cortex (see illustration). Dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens is so consistently tied with pleasure that neuroscientists refer to the region as the brain’s pleasure center.

All drugs of abuse, from ni****ne to he**in, cause a particularly powerful surge of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens. The likelihood that the use of a drug or participation in a rewarding activity will lead to addiction is directly linked to the speed with which it promotes dopamine release, the intensity of that release, and the reliability of that release.

Even taking the same drug through different methods of administration can influence how likely it is to lead to addiction. Smoking a drug or injecting it intravenously, as opposed to swallowing it as a pill, for example, generally produces a faster, stronger dopamine signal and is more likely to lead to drug misuse.

Addictive drugs provide a shortcut to the brain’s reward system by flooding the nucleus accumbens with dopamine. The hippocampus lays down memories of this rapid sense of satisfaction, and the amygdala creates a conditioned response to certain stimuli.

21/09/2022

This is GLOBAL HEALTH REVIVAL. Today's topic is on ADDICTION.
In our world today, youth and teenagers are addicted to many estranged things to the past. A boy of 16 will spend 3 hours on the phone.

Addiction is the repeated involvement with a thing or attitude. Addiction also means to surrender. Addiction to drugs proves to be quite hard to break out from because drugs has a way of rewiring one's brain.

Drugs, po*******hy and other bad activities have captivated the minds of our youth. If our youths can't think straight, who will be the leaders of tomorrow? Who will carry on your family's legacy?

In a community today, most teenagers end up becoming touts, political weapon and gang members at their youthful age because of addiction to a particular lifestyle. Like I said before addiction has a way of REWIRING one's brain. Dear reader, if you are addicted to something or you know someone that is addicted to a thing, you need God and a doctor to break free. Help create awareness in order to develop our society.

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11/09/2022

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09/09/2022

This is GLOBAL HEALTH REVIVAL. Today's topic: CEREBROVASCULAR paralysis.
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31/08/2022

This is GLOBAL HEALTH REVIVAL. How do you explain death by blood clotting.

Most recently,a Nigerian gospel artiste died of it. Internal bleeding do lead to clogging of platelets. This clogging in turn, restrict blood flow through arterioles and capillaries which may cause:
Internal pain,
Temporal paralysis,
Inability to receive efferent neurons,etc.

In general, agglutination works as a member of the blood clotting and resisting factors to foreign bodies in the human body.

In case of an accident, where a person is hit by a car or something heavy. Rush such person to the nearest hospital for proper medications and limitations to internal blood clot.

Internal bleeding has killed many overs the years be aware of it.

25/08/2022

This is GLOBAL HEALTH REVIVAL. Today's topic is about BLOOD LOSS.

There are certain conditions that can make a person lose blood. It is worse to lose blood without knowing that you are losing it.

Blood loss condition are of two types; acute and chronic. Often times, chronic blood loss leads to anemia.

When blood is lost, the body quickly pulls water from tissues outside the bloodstream (due to the body cells being hypotonic) in an attempt to keep the blood vessels filled. Therefore, the blood is diluted and the percentage of red blood cells in the total volume of blood is reduced thereby resulting to anemia.

There are several causes of blood loss: surgery, childbirth, deep cut, stomach ulcers, endometriosis, cancer, tumor and trauma.

When a person is losing blood, he/ she shows symptoms like; dizziness, loss of consciousness, confusion, chest pain, low blood pressure and even seeing imaginery things.

What do you do when you notice a person is losing blood as a result of external injury. You apply constant pressure till the bleeding stops and also maintain pressure by binding the cut with a thick bandage or piece of clean cloth.

Take note: if you are undergoing/undergone any form of tumor or trauma, here are list of home remedies.

Eating foods rich in iron and B vitamins e.g, leafy vegetables,red meat, poultry,e.t.c.
Adequate rest.

Medical remedies for blood loss are: blood transfusion, treatment with oxygen and iron.

Be aware of your health, it's your wealth.

22/08/2022

This is GLOBAL HEALTH REVIVAL. Your health, your wealth.
Creating minds for good health.

15/08/2022

The moment the page reaches 100 followers, we will be hosting a live session with a pharmacist for free. Do well to tell and invite a friend to follow the page.

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15/08/2022

This is GLOBAL HEALTH REVIVAL. Do you know that your hands are the closest part of your body to your mouth? Do you know that your hands are susceptible to contacting bacteria on dirty surfaces? Moreso, in Africa, an average citizen don't know to care for the hands. 50 percent of a person's illnesses are contacted from the hands. Therefore, in order to keep our health we need to take good care of our hands. When Covid_19 became rampant in 2020, the president of Nigeria postulated the proper way of washing our hands(please check the video if you care).

It is advisable that the hands should be washed regularly every 20 to 30 minutes under running water for at least 20 seconds with medicated soap and water in order to neutralize the bacteria and other harmful algae.

Washing of hands without medicated soap but with water does more harm than good, because certain bacteria needs water to reproduce. So, take good care of your hands as you would to the food you eat.

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15/08/2022

This is GLOBAL HEALTH REVIVAL. Be aware of your health issues both psychologically and physiologically.
We give you health tips in maintaining your health condition.
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