Inpatient Rehabilitation Treatment Center
An inpatient
rehabilitation treatment center is generally the way to go for effective
treatment of severe drug
abuse or any form of addiction. This is not to say the outpatient does not have a use, as it does in cases of light
abuse where the individual still maintains control of life and situations to an extent.
In the main however,
addiction by its very nature implies an inability to control use and by extension inability to handle life situations that led up to and are contributing factors in continuing addiction.
With its use of close supervision and removal from dangerous environments the inpatient
rehabilitation treatment center provides superior chances of achieving a drug free lifestyle.
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How does one help addiction?
First of course is stopping drug use, normally known as withdrawal.
Second would be a return to physical health and vitality.
At Narconon Arrowhead we take this a step further and deliver the New Life
Detoxification Program to thoroughly rid the body of all stored drugs and toxins.
Third should be gaining the life skills and abilities to fully confront and resolve the three main components of continuing
addiction which are cravings, guilt, and depression. This results in the ability to put an end to drug
addiction and lead a happy, productive, drug free life. There are certainly additional factors that come up and need to be dealt with on a person by person individual level.
Addiction clinics are generally out-patient facilities which offer various services to aid in
addiction recovery. Some, such as methadone clinics, are actually involved in simply substituting one drug or another.
This is misguided help as replacing one drug with another is never a long term solution to drug addiction.
This is not to say that
addiction clinics don’t offer some valuable services, most of them do.
An addiction clinic can be a starting point in confronting addiction.
Following up clinic services with a comprehensive long term, impatient drug
rehabilitation program is the best insurance for a drug free productive life. Narconon Arrowhead is such a facility.
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.
There are common denominators between drugs though each may have its own effects and side effects. All drugs are essentially poisons with the amount taken determining the effect.
A small amount of any drug will act as a stimulant (increases activity).
A larger amount of any drug will act as a sedative (suppressing activity).
A still larger amount poisons and can kill.
This is true of any drug and only the amount needed differs. Drugs act to block of sensations, unfortunately this includes desirable sensations as well as unwanted sensations. Though sometimes of short term value in handling pain, they also wipe out ability, alertness, and greatly confuse thinking processes. At an addictive level drugs serve as major sources of numbing mental and physical sensation, while at the same time increasing unwanted attitudes, emotions, sensations, and pains, when attempts are made to cease use.
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