Contents:
- What are the symptoms of sakau sabu?
- People who have methamphetamine drugs cannot feel happy
- How to deal with sakau sabu
Methamphetamine or crystal meth, or methamphetamine, is a highly addictive narcotics. It is white, odorless, bitter, and like crystal. The BNN survey results show shabu as a rank 2 drug that is most often consumed by people in Indonesia.
Reporting from Compass, cases of drug and drug abuse in Indonesia in 2015 almost reached 6 million. Furthermore according to data from the National Narcotics Agency (BNN), an estimated 50 people die every day due to narcotics abuse.
Among the various effects of methamphetamine on the body, these drugs can also cause heart problems, including rapid heartbeat, irregular heartbeat, and increased blood pressure. If it's already in the stage of overdose, methamphetamine will cause convulsions, increased body temperature and death. However, methamphetamine drug addicts that suddenly do not use anymore, either because they do not have access to methamphetamine or because they want to stop, usually also going through a phase called sakau or sakaw.
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What are the symptoms of sakau sabu?
Sakau sabu is a body symptom that occurs as a result of the sudden dismissal of methamphetamine, or due to a drastic decrease in the dose of methamphetamine at once.Symptoms of shabu shabu can be as strong as when you are addicted. Like other types of drugs, methamphetamine drug users will experience two types of symptoms: emotional and physical.
People who are sick due to methamphetamine drugs will usually experience emotional symptoms as follows:
- Appetite rises
- Depression (generally immune to related treatments)
- Mood swing (irritability, dangerous behavior)
- Difficulty concentrating
- Cravings for shabu
- Paranoid
- Psychosis (tends to schizophrenia)
- Hallucinations
- Worry
- Restless
- Sleeping too long and often, too hard to wake up, the sleep cycle is interrupted
- Suicidal tendency
- Withdrawal (isolation)
- Flat emotions and inactivity
- Poor insight, and poor assessment process
While the physical symptoms that often occur in people who love shabu are:
- Pale, dirty skin
- Physical appearance is a mess
- Slow motion
- Bad eye contact
- Talking too soft
- Headache
- Extreme fatigue
- Body aches
The symptoms of sakaw shabu are usually moderate to severe and can be fatal if left untreated.
Generally, the symptoms of methamphetamine drugs start within 1-2 days after the last dose, and last up to three months. The duration of withdrawal symptoms will vary depending on how much and often they use the drug.
People who have methamphetamine drugs cannot feel happy
When meth addicts stop using, the dopamine and dopamine receptors available in the brain will drop dramatically. That is, meth addicts who experience drug withdrawal symptoms will be trapped in anhedonia situation, aka the inability to feel pleasure.
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Anhedonia will make these individuals live like zombies. General things that can make someone feel happy will not have any impact on users of methamphetamine and have just undergone rehabilitation. Plus, it takes at least two years to stay clean until the dopamine function that has been damaged by meth can return to work as usual.
This anhedonia condition can cause former methamphetamine drug users who are still struggling with depression to return to relapse. The chemical content in meth will cause a return of a surge in dopamine in the brain that can help him recover from life like an undead.
How to deal with sakau sabu
Although symptoms can disappear a few weeks after the last symptoms, patients can experience serious difficulties trying to deal with symptoms psychosis without the help of others.
Addiction and symptoms of shabu shabu are very difficult to overcome, especially through independent therapy. The only best way to achieve complete recovery is to report to a hospital or rehabilitation center for meth detoxification, where it will go through a comprehensive care plan.
Rehab therapy will be different depending on each individual. However, if the symptoms of shingles are considered severe enough, there may be further treatment measures, such as:
- Treatment of psychosis using antipsychotic drugs
- Treatment for depression that lasts more than two weeks with antidepressants
- Treatment of anxiety disorders with non-benzodiazepine sedatives
- Treatment of mania lasting more than two weeks with antimanic drugs (lithium)
- Sleeping pills for 1-2 weeks
- Full supervision of suicidal tendencies.
All rehabilitation processes must be monitored by a medical professional.
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