Addiction Mental Health
Addiction
treatment in the mental health field is not working.
The number of success stories coming from non-traditional
treatment centers is rising.
More and more drug and alcohol addicts are becoming happy and productive citizens again without using the mental health's solutions of replacing one drug for a another.
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Alcohol
abuse can be considered to set in when the use of alcohol is impacting the individual’s quality of life.
This may be drinking on the job, arguments at home due to mild or severe intoxication, ignoring one’s responsibilities in favor of alcohol use, or any of the seemingly endless list of detrimental effects.
One does not necessarily reach the stages of full blown
alcoholism in order to benefit from alcohol
abuse treatment. Alcohol abuse most often occurs as a solution to the cravings, guilt, and depression.
These three points are key points leading up to and then continuing drug or alcohol abuse.
When one is able to feel better and find more joy without the alcohol than with it, the need, desire, or compulsion to abuse it fades away. Alcohol abuse
treatment in time can prevent the full blown miseries and possible death resulting from alcoholism.
Most addicts or alcoholics and confronted with multiple factors when it comes to effective drug treatments. One of the first
drug treatments is of course a safe cessation of
drug use and as gentle a withdrawal from actual use as possible.
Another one of the
drug treatments is effective
detoxification and removal of the actual drug and toxins from the body.
This alleviates and in many cases totally removes the cravings which can lead to relapse.
Some programs consider the addict ‘detoxed’ once withdrawal is accomplished.
At Narconon Arrowhead we deliver the New Life
Detoxification Program in addition to withdrawal services. This is a unique and state of the art program which actually removes stored drugs and toxins from the body. There is a definite difference between withdrawal and a full detoxification.
Per the Encarta dictionary
chemical dependency is
addiction to a chemical substance or drug.
Dependency can be further defined as the mental or physical need to use a drug or other substance regularly, despite the fact that they are likely to have a damaging effect.
Chemical dependency knows no educational, class, race, or social bounds.
Most
chemical dependency starts out as an attempt to handle some sort of physical or emotional problem.
Some do offer small relief in the short term. The problem enters as more and more use occurs. The very problems originally trying to be solved are now being perpetuated and amplified by the drug use. The individual can not confront perceived pain (emotional or physical) that he feels will come from not using.
Abuse occurs when a drug, alcohol, or other substance is used to the detriment of the users health, family relations, finances, career, etc.
The detriments may be slight at the beginning of
abuse but generally escalates quite quickly into cravings (mental or physical) for the drug, alcohol, or substance.
This is followed in short order by a marked rise in feeling of guilt and depression as the individual starts sacrificing quality of life for self and others in the more and more single-minded pursuit of the drugs and alcohol.
Once
abuse has set it the whole process of
addiction picks up speed as does the damage done to health, families, career, etc. The sooner this dwindling spiral is halted and addressed with effective drug and alcohol
rehabilitation the better.
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