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Substance abuse treatment is often individualized to each patient, but there are a few steps that each patient needs to take to become drug free. The first of these steps in recognizing the problem. Denial used to be mistakenly believed to be part of the drug addiction symptoms, but recent research is showing it is not. People trying to help a person accept that they have a substance abuse problem need to show empathy, and respect.
The next step in substance abuse treatment is detoxification.
Detoxification is the process of withdrawing the substance from the
body. This is often accompanied by uncomfortable symptoms and cravings.
Sometimes other medications are given to help the body cope with these
symptoms. The patient is usually monitored either in an inpatient or
outpatient facility.
Rehabilitation is the third step. This is often the step that takes the longest. Programs range from a month to a year and usually include counseling, support groups, and family therapy. Mental health illnesses are also often evaluated and treated during this step. Rehabilitation needs to address the factors that cause substance abuse by a certain individual. Factors that contribute to drug abuse are: peer pressure, genetic make-up, anxiety, emotional distress, environmental stress and depression. Rehabilitation should give a patient the tools they need to help control and maintain these factors. For example, by providing support groups and other relationships substance abuse treatment centers can help reduce the impact that peer pressure has on an individual. Abstinence is the final step. For many patients support groups continue to help them remain drug free. They often continue going to support groups at regular intervals long after the rehabilitation process is complete. Some support groups are: Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Ala-Teen, Al-Anon, SMART Recovery and LifeRing Recovery. |
klonopin Reply to this Comment i get get off of it its been a year now and only geting wrost i have taper and taper but it all come back to the same not much to live for anymore iam at 8mg a day i don't know why to fight anymore all i see is nothing and all i feel is pain most dont beleave what is there to look for anymore Drug rehab. Reply to this Comment I have a friend who is a drug addict,who wants help,but refuses to get it on his own.I have tried to help him over the past 10yrs.but to no avail.He drinks/smokes crack. He has been doing this for the past 20yrs.He has tried to stop several times thru Christ,but backslides every 2-4mons. Please help me try to save my friend. same boat Reply to this Comment god i wish there was a way of helping more. i love the friend i have and he just keep falling and I see how much it hurts him but he dose not know what to do about it. Depression and grief Reply to this Comment I understand. I lost my husband 3 mos ago. Suicide is not an alternative as a christian if i want to see jesus, otherwise i would of done it in the first week of my grief. i am on benzodiazapenes, a drug like klonopin in the same family. also a strong antipsychotic called seroquel and nothing helps. i am going into long term rehab and giving up my apt. prayer is the answer. my church is helping me Hang In There Reply to this Comment I'm sorry about your loss. I lost the man I was about to marry one month before the wedding. The night before his car accident, we rented the movie "What Dreams May Come" with Robin Williams. I'm sure that movie was a message from god. I began drinking though (a slow suicide). Just got out of I.C.U. for withdrawals. After 10 years I was drinking a 1/2 gallon of rum a day!!! I'm getting into inpatient treatment on Friday. You are so strong to get help now. My prayers are with you. detox/painmed,s Reply to this Comment we all just dont need help with one addtion we need help for all addtion,s in alaska and there is not one detox center in alaska for painmed,s/herion and in order to get into a rehab you need to be clean from them catch 22 ? Eye Opener !!!! Reply to this Comment Handle Then Carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs. sex addiction Reply to this Comment I need help. I lost the man I've been with for 15 years. I was suppose to get married. Could'nt stop cheating. I think I have a problem with sex. Help me. Where do I go from here. seroquel Reply to this Comment try something besides seroquel. I was taking it and no help ... try celexa. klonopin is helpful for the stress.. treatment Reply to this Comment I just got out of treatment I went to Buffalo Valley and it was very good for me I've now been clean for 40 days and I feel great if I can do it anyone can One day at a time. URGENT: ED JENKINS Reply to this Comment ONE OF YOUR GRADS YOJAN GOMEZ OWES THE HOUSE HE LIVES IN OVER $400 IN BACKRENT. HE IS ALSO OVERDRAWN BY $240 ON HIS BACK ACCOUNT. HE DOES NOTHING AT THE HOUSE BUT WATCH TV AND FIDDLE ON THE COMPUTER. I THINK HIS PO NEEDS TO KNOW THIS. HE IS LIVING THERE FOR FREE. Klonopin Reply to this Comment you are a child of God and though things may have been bleak for quite some time, please persevere. things rarely happen when we want them to but just have faith. it doesn;t feel good to hold on to faith sometimes but you have to believe in YOU. I felt I had to reply and let you know you are loved. You can and WILL suceed! w Reply to this Comment hang in there . . never know. you may wake up tomorro and things be different. . everything happens for a reason iam an addict Reply to this Comment iam 32yrs old. i have 2children who don;t live with me at the time. i was married to a man who i loved since i was 15yrs old. i use to eat 75 10/650pk's aday, until i went in a coma and died 4 times. i came out of it a month later and thank GOD, iam ok... so now i take a half of saboxone aday. well i had a minor relapse and took 11 of my moms .05 xanax, she found out told the whole world,but i gave her 10 back. now my family wants me to die and check myself into rehab, did i tell ya'll my husband of 10yrs left me 2 months ago. forgot to say something Reply to this Comment i forgot to tell everyone that my father is an acholic, and a pill head. and he said if i don;t go to rehab, then i will be living in my car again. (when my husband left, i had no where to go, so i lived in my car for 3weeks) anyway, my father said 50.00 was missing, i swear i didn't take it. i think he uses me to cover up his own problem, and i don't want to live anymore... 4 years clean Reply to this Comment A little over 4 years ago I was feeling the same way some of you are. I lost my oldest daughter to my ex husband,and my 1 year old, who's dad died while I was pregnant as a result of being high, was taken from me. Luckily that was the rock bottom I needed to hit. Having my house raided and going to jail several times never was enough, neither was loosing my family one person at a time. The state helped me get the help I needed. I went through treatment and slowly I regained everything I had lost. I have my children, and my family again, but most important I have me back!! Good luck to you all, recovery is possible and you are worth living for:) Try to see past the lies that your disease is telling you, you can live without it. RE: urgent jenkins Reply to this Comment Sorry to be direct but I noticed you were crying about somebody watching TV and being lazy. According to me, a ten year on and off again opiate relationship has been on for almost a year. A bit of advise for the fellow who wants to tattle cause he don't agree with anothers do-nothingness attitude toward recovery. One word hero! YOU better quit eyeballing that gentleman and get after your business. I promise you were never a soldier. Thinking twice this seems like a womans letter and I do apologize to any female I may have affended. On the other hand if this is a grown man, get serious about your recovery and if this individual doesn't take it seriously his time will come. I served in the US ARMY from 96-2003 most in special operations, my toughest battle opiates. I'd like to have a man to man with the hero who thinks he wants to run the rehab clinic and apply double standards. I only would like a chance to ask you questions about yourself and your perception of the world. Tattle tales and lazy bums. Where is this treatment center. Cooperation gentlemen. Or maybe your original g's. RE: urgent jenkins Reply to this Comment Sorry to be direct but I noticed you were crying about somebody watching TV and being lazy. According to me, a ten year on and off again opiate relationship has been on for almost a year. A bit of advise for the fellow who wants to tattle cause he don't agree with anothers do-nothingness attitude toward recovery. One word hero! YOU better quit eyeballing that gentleman and get after your business. I promise you were never a soldier. Thinking twice this seems like a womans letter and I do apologize to any female I may have affended. On the other hand if this is a grown man, get serious about your recovery and if this individual doesn't take it seriously his time will come. I served in the US ARMY from 96-2003 most in special operations, my toughest battle opiates. I'd like to have a man to man with the hero who thinks he wants to run the rehab clinic and apply double standards. I only would like a chance to ask you questions about yourself and your perception of the world. Tattle tales and lazy bums. Where is this treatment center. Cooperation gentlemen. Or maybe your original g's. WAKE UP Reply to this Comment Wake up Alaska! What are you going to do with the future groundswell of 2nd, 3rd, 4th, or 5th generations of a great native population that has found it harder and harder to concquor the alcohol with prohibition laws and a drug rehab program that requires addicts of heroin, cocaine, alcohol, prescription opiates, and benzodiazipams to be clean for 5 days before entering treatment. Who is qualified to tell an addict you need to be clean for 5 days if you wish to enter rehab. I wonder if it is a setup to strangle out the proud induit people in order to establish total victory in our genoside against the native populations of the Americas. I'm an old vet from 96-2003 in special operations, and I've fought that battle with a real rehab program. I can disarm a man with my bare hands, but when I was seeking out help for a heroin addiction I picked up the last couple years you could write me off Alaska's rehab program, it's for people who obviously aren't that bad off. So again Alaska! How do you intend on helping a young woman or man with a HEROIN problem. Wait five day's my genuis neighbors up north and this person may have already died, bitten off a tongue in a ceasure, and possibly doing permanent damage to brain centers that may likely control speech, cognitive reasoning, and tremmors. PLEASE, you have my fullest apologies to an esteemed thoughtful panel that shares my concerns for the well being of our nation as a whole. If you decide to leave these people to the methods I've seen prescribed by the state mental health director, it's likely to be a disaster for our last native population, be nice if they were free. I'm born again and gaining strength | ||||||||
By:Keith Mcgurn jr Posted: May 07 2006 11:47:59 AM