Drug and Alcohol Treatment
The correct choice of drug and alcohol
treatment is a life altering and (more often than not) a life saving choice.
Here are some of our suggestions at Narconon Arrowhead for what to look for in drug and alcohol
treatment regardless of whether you choose Narconon Arrowhead or not.
First, find a program that is drug free including withdrawal (except when medically needed).
Handling
addiction with more drugs just doesn’t make good sense.
Second find a program that offers full
detoxification in addition to withdrawal only. Stored drugs and toxins can account for cravings and relapse months or even years after last use. Third in our list of most important drug and
alcohol treatment needs is a treatment that fully addresses guilt and depression which almost always accompany drug or alcohol addiction, and in fact can be major factors that led up to the drug or alcohol
abuse to begin with. These are of course not a complete list, but are starting points when exploring various treatment options.
Drug Rehab Information By State
With regular heroin use, tolerance develops. This means the abuser must use more heroin to achieve the same intensity or effect. As higher doses are used over time, physical dependence and
addiction develop. With physical dependence, the body has adapted to the presence of the drug and withdrawal symptoms may occur if use is reduced or stopped. Withdrawal, which in regular abusers may occur as early as a few hours after the last administration, produces drug craving, restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea and vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps (‘old turkey’), kicking movements (‘kicking the habit’), and other symptoms. Major withdrawal symptoms peak between 48 and 72 hours after the last dose and subside after about a week. Sudden withdrawal by heavily dependent users who are in poor health is occasionally fatal, although heroin withdrawal is considered much less dangerous than alcohol or barbiturate withdrawal.
Addiction is a condition characterized by repeated compulsive seeking and use of drugs, alcohol or other substances despite adverse social, mental and physical consequences.
It is usually accompanied by psychological and physical dependence with the appearance of withdrawal symptoms when the drug or substance is rapidly decreased or terminated.
Heroin
Addiction can be accompanied by extreme physical withdrawal.
The drug quickly breaks down the immune system leaving the user sickly, gaunt, and ultimately dead without treatment.
Heroin and morphine are among the most frequently mentioned drugs in reports of drug-related deaths.
Rehab therapy can all too often be reduced to individual or group sessions where the person is evaluated by counselors, therapists, and others. Though this offers some slight relief and is usually well meant, it is usually a far cry from what is really needed.
With a full staff of Certified
Chemical Dependency Counselors Narconon Arrowhead takes a different route.
We stress the development of life skills and abilities that actually allow the individual to recognize and confront the situations created as part of their
addiction that are creating cravings, guilt, and depression. These segments include a full array of exercises to increase the ability of the individual to resolve his own problems and issues and so in his own estimation move forward to a drug free productive life and free from the cravings, guilt and depression created by his past addictive lifestyle and actions.
Addiction
treatment services are not all equal.
Finding the correct inpatient drug
rehab is essential.
Some are withdrawal services only.
Some inpatient drug
rehab services embrace a drug free approach to
rehabilitation while others feel that somehow more or different drugs are the answer.
12 step rehabs are the norm but with dismally low success rates inpatient
drug rehab treatment is moving more and more in a non-traditional direction. Narconon Arrowhead is a drug free, long-term inpatient
drug rehab that has been embracing non-traditional methodology for over 40 years with success rates that are among the highest of all inpatient
drug rehabs – non-traditional or not.
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