Substance abuse belief

Substance abuse or addiction partly depends on selfdestructive beliefs and self-defeating behaviors that can only begin to be corrected once harmful reliance on drugs or alcohol has stopped. 

Psychosis—symptoms include irrational beliefs, paranoia, hallucinations (seeing things or hearing sounds that do not exist), social withdrawal, clinging, strange behavior, extreme stubbornness, persistent rituals, and deterioration of personal habits. May be seen in developmental disorders, severe depression, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia, and some forms of substance abuse. 

In 2001, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the surgeon general s report on youth violence, which indicated several risk factors (both personal and social) that predict youth violence. In the primary grades, risk factors included 1) being male 2) substance abuse 3) aggression 4) low intelligence 5) antisocial parents 6) poverty 7) psychological conditions such as hyperactivity 8) weak social ties 9) antisocial behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and peers 10) exposure to TV violence 11) poor school performance 12) abusive parents ... 

Drug Abuse) says in contrast to what you hear publicly, we at NIH have never received a proposal to study [MDMA] for any clinical indications, which I think is an interesting commentary on the biomedical communities belief about this substance. ... 

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