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relates self-medication for attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity with addictions.

disorder attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is well known in childhood and even a few decades ago believed to diminish in adolescence to disappear in adult life.

However, from the nineties have been found in several studies that ADHD persists into adulthood and, indeed, between 3 and 6 percent of the general population has this disorder This means that between 40 and 79 percent of childhood cases persist into adulthood, presenting the same core symptoms in children: inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity.

By studying adult ADHD has been found which was strongly associated with consumption of alcohol and drugs. Thus, between 17 and 45 percent of adults with ADHD have alcohol abuse or dependence, and between 9 and 30 percent abuse or dependence on other substances.

addition, between 10 and 30 percent of adults with substance use disorder had ADHD in children and symptoms of it have continued into adulthood and 20 percent of adults seeking treatment for substance use disorders have ADHD.

The relationship between ADHD and substance use disorders is not clarified yet and there are several among them have the self-medication hypothesis.

ADHD is psychostimulant medication with drugs and subjects with ADHD use cocaine or other stimulants to self-medicate symptoms of the disorder sufferers, as these illegal stimulants have effects similar to those of the medications used to treat this disorder.

To test this hypothesis, we evaluated 249 patients who came seeking treatment for addictive behavior unit, linking the possible diagnosis of ADHD substances consumed by the subjects. If self-medication hypothesis were true, ADHD should have been more related to cocaine use con cualquier otra sustancia.

Otro factor o causa de la relación entre TDAH y consumo de tóxicos , está en la hiperactividad del niño o adolescente con TDAH, la busca de nuevas sensaciones junto a su déficit de control de impulsos puede hacer que el adolescente con TDAH de forma impulsiva o mas bien poco reflexiva pueda iniciarse al consumo de sustancias sin valorar el riesgo que contrae con ello. Una vez probadas esta, sobre todo el caso de la cocaína puede mantenerse el consumo a la cocaína por AUTOMEDICACION y así controlar la clínica de su TDAH

The self-medication, which in the case of the additions is a more reinforcement for drug addiction. Take one example. A depressive may accidentally take cocaine, and unwittingly being a cocaine euphoria will improve their depressive symptoms, so that can be given cocaine at low doses, not to seek a euphoric state, but because the depressed patient really is best to encourage the use of cocaine at low doses. It calls for self-medication, because the patient becomes drug addict that seeks not realizing an improvement in their depressive symptoms. In ADHD, doctors speak of the paradoxical effect of cocaine in ADHD this phenomenon does not occur in all patients with ADHD, only occurs in some, it may tanbien this paradoxical phenomenon cocaine use in patients with ADHD is due to make low consumption of cocaine in the background is a stimulant, clinical improvement of their having a calming effect rather than euphoria as expected in cocaine.

In my blog of my patients with ADHD ANTONIO THE OFFICER, you can see in this direction http://pacientestdah.blogspot.com/2010/08/antonio-funcionario.html tell a patient with cocaine paradoxical effect . What could more easily clarify the paradoxical effect of cocaine and understand the consumption of toxic way of an adolescent with ADHD