9^th International Conference on Addiction & Psychiatry November 12-13, 2018 Dubai, UAE

Impulse control disorder is characterized by an individual’s inability to resist powerful, often self-destructive temptations and impulses. Impulse control disorders are incredibly diverse, ranging from compulsions to go shopping to urges to burn property to the ground. The negative consequences of impulse control disorder can be tempered through treatment.

 Impulse control disorder does not refer to one specific illness. According to neuro innovations in clinical science, impulsive behavior breaks down into different stages, including the impulse itself, growing tension, the feeling of pleasure and relief from fulfilling the urge, and subsequent guilt, especially if the action was a negative one or if the person was avoiding the action.

Dual Diagnosis is a condition when a person suffers from both a substance abuse problem and another mental health issue such as depression or an anxiety disorder. Sometimes use alcohol or drugs are due to mental problems. Individuals who are dealing with Autism spectrum disorder are at high risk of substance abuse. They may feel that substance abuse helps them to cover their social ineptness but over time it begins to cause serious problems in their life. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is also related to addiction. Self-medication theory is widely used for the treatment of co-occurring disorders. Mental infection and substance utilize interface to have real, negative outcomes for a few districts of working (tallying work, associations, welfare, and security). Recovery from mental illness is significantly more trying for individuals with a double conclusion, and the issues looked by groups of individuals with double diagnosis can be more complex and confounding than psychological sickness alone.

Anxiety disorders are very common and it has been measured that more than one-fourth of the all-inclusive community will encounter a genuine nervousness problem among their lifetime. Anxiety can cause physical symptoms like pain, a pounding heart or stomach cramps, hot and cold flushes, feeling tight in breathing, shaking, etc. Individuals who have less emotionally stable or who have high anxiety levels tend to experience specific events more stress than others. However, research has found that patients with anxiety disorder do not have any differences in their actual physical response to stress (such as heart rate, blood pressure, or release of stress hormones) compared to people without anxiety.

Alcohol addiction is characterized as the alcoholic liquid that is obtained from fermented grain or fruit. These liquids include beer, wine, and other hard liquors. Alcohol is an addictive drug. The more alcohol we drink the more our body comes to depend on it -thus, the nature of addiction. Excessive drinking of alcohol and chronic pancreatitis caused due to alcohol addiction, alcoholic polyneuropathy which damages the nerve. Delirium tremens (DTs) is caused by alcohol withdrawal after a period of heavy drinking and lead to severe mental and nervous system changes.

Drug addiction is a brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking, despite of its harmful consequences. It causes changes in the normal activity of the nervous system damaging the nerve tissues, killing neurons and this leads to dis-regulation of neural system. Hence uncontrolled drug brings about the destruction of the brain. Most of the behavioral effects of drug addiction include Aggressiveness, Impulsiveness, paranoia, and loss of self- control.

Several mental health conditions in which a person involves in positive behavior continuously even if the behavior causes them harm it may appear like they simply cannot prevent engaging in it is known as behavioral addiction. Common behavioral addictions are also known as process addictions that include gambling addiction, hoarding, shopping addiction, and kleptomania (impulsive stealing). A number of factors contribute to the growth of behavioral addictions, including personality, substance abuse, and genetics.

Addiction psychiatry is a medical concerned with the diagnosis, treatment of persons suffering from one or more disorder related to addiction and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who specializes in mental health, including substance use disorders. Addiction psychiatry is an expanding field which currently has high demand for substance abuse. Mental health disorders involve disturbances in thinking, emotion, and behavior. Small disturbances in these aspects of life are common, but when such disturbances distress the person greatly and interfere with daily life, they are considered mental illness or a mental health disorder.

A mental illness diagnosed by a psychiatrist that greatly disturbs your thinking, moods, and behavior and seriously increases your risk of disability, death, or loss of freedom is known as the psychiatric disorder. The term psychological disorder means a mental disorder or illness that interferes with a person’s behavior, interacting with others and functions in daily life. Psychiatric disorders are also sometimes known as mental health disorders or mental health illnesses. More often, psychiatric problems go unseen and undiagnosed in patients seeking treatment for some other health problem. 

Child and adolescent psychiatry is a part of medical science that usually focuses on the diagnosis, treatment, and preclusion of mental disorders in children, adolescents, and their families. A child and adolescent psychiatrist offers families the benefits of a medical education, the medical traditions of professional beliefs and medical responsibility for providing complete care. Almost every single psychotropic solution permitted to kids, including anti-psychotics, antidepressant, anxiolytics, stimulants and state of mind stabilizers.

Geriatric psychiatry is a specialty of psychiatry dealing with the study, treatment, prevention of mental disorders in humans with older people. The population of old people is increasing rapidly throughout the developed and developing countries. This reflects improving health and social conditions which is the major cause for celebration. Dementias disorder is particularly common in old age; others differ in clinical features and present particular problems in management

Child and adolescence behavioral therapy denotes to a number of procedures and methods used to help children and adolescents who are facing difficulties with their emotions or behavior. When children experience emotions involve in behaviors that interfere with their happiness and ability to thrive at that time they need to consult a behavioral therapist. Children can experience various types of mental health disorders such as anxiety disorder, eating disorder, mood disorder, Schizophrenia, Autism spectrum disorder, etc.

When a medicine client has dysfunctional actions before sedate use, it might be difficult to distinguish side effects that exist only because of the medication utilize itself. Most side effects, if the condition is inconsequential to drugs, will proceed after restraint from the medication. Drugs like cocaine, cannabis, and drugs can cause psychological well-being issues and, when combined with a prior emotional sickness, can compound the manifestations of such diseases. A few medications, when taken every now and again for drawn-out stretches of time, can really show as maniacal side effects demonstrative of schizophrenia and bipolar issue

Addiction is a  brain disorder that is manifested by compulsive substance use despite harmful consequences.  Despite the involvement of a number of psychosocial factors, one is a biological process which is induced by repeated exposure to an addictive stimulus is the core pathology that drives the development and maintenance of an addiction.  It falls under two classes, substance abuse or drug addiction and behavioral addiction such as gambling addiction.

Mental health is a psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral modification. Persons with depression or other mental health issues are especially exposed to alcohol and drug use. Similarly, many people who are addicted to drugs are also diagnosed with other mental disorders, including anxiety and depression. 

The brain controls our body’s basic functions that permit us to understand and respond to everything we experience and shapes our thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Different parts of the brain are responsible for coordinating and performing specific functions. Medicines can change important brain parts that are necessary for life-sustaining activities and can drive the compulsive drug abuse that marks addiction. People who suffer from habit often have one or more additional medical issues, which may include lung or cardiovascular disease, cancer, stroke and mental disorders. Few drugs of abuse, such as inhalants, are toxic to nerve cells and may abolish them either in the brain or the peripheral nervous system (PNS).

The present days in many cities, addiction and youth is a major attempt to be examined. It focuses on the perceptions of the substance abusers, the causes for their addiction to drugs, smoking, and alcohol; the role of their families, friends and social environment and the law enforcing agencies in spreading this hazard. The study has taken 200 youth by following snowball sampling method. The youth of the affluent and the middle-classes are in abundance in the City. As they have access to material comforts, most of them try to lead an excessive and stylish life that subsequently offers them a wide variety of things to experiment with. In this process, they taste the thrill of cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs- just for a change but unfortunately, they are caught in the vicious circle of addiction to harmful substances and drug abuse. The most common reason for young people to be attracted towards drugs, alcohol, etc is peer pressure

Rehabilitation and family therapies are the processes of helping the persons who are suffering from mental illness and the family’s strengths and resources to help them live without drugs or alcohol and bring back to the normal life. It also seeks to reduce the harm of addiction on both the substance abuser and his or her family.

 Alcohol is one of the major addiction issues all over the world. There are several factors which lead to taking up addiction in individuals of various age groups. Some causes are related to mental health whereas some are due to poor lifestyle and bad external environment. There are major research & development being conducted all across the globe for making the human race free of addiction. Recovery is a complex and dynamic process encompassing all the positive benefits to physical, mental and social health that can happen when people with an addiction to alcohol or drugs, or their family members requiring their progressing work and attention