Relapse Causes
Relapse all too often in the
rehab community is considered almost inevitable.
This comes from a defeatist mentality after year of failure in addressing the situation.
Relapse CAN be prevented and is not a forgone conclusion. If one fully address and handles cravings, guilt and depression then relapse fades away as a point of concern.
This may sound over-simplified but really isn’t.
Narconon has a 76% success rate and over 40 years experience in handling exactly these factors with a long term, drug free and non-traditional approach to these exact three points. A Narconon Arrowhead we create drug free productive lives for a lifetime.
Drug Rehab Information By State
Drug use occurs in an effort to relieve some form of pain, it may be physical but is often times emotional or a combination of the two.
This could be as simple as using alcohol or pot to avoid peer pressure as a teen, or the use of painkillers after an industrial accident.
Either way the drug is found to alleviate the symptoms.
The bigger the problem, the greater the discomfort and the more relief is sought. With continued
abuse the drugs begin to create mental and physical damage of their own and if continued unchecked the person’s life when sober is filled with despair and misery.
At this point all the person wants to do is escape these feelings by drugging or drinking them away. This is the downward spiral of addiction.
As an opiate, regular use of methadone causes physical dependency - if you've been using it regularly (prescribed or not) once you stop you will experience a withdrawal. The physical changes due to the drug are similar to other opiates (like heroin). If you are a woman using methadone you may not have regular periods - but you are still able to conceive. Methadone is a long-acting opioid; it has an effect for up to 36 hours (if you are using methadone you will not withdraw for this period) A Personal story of methadone withdrawal:
“I've been on both ends of withdrawals, heroin and methadone, every patient of methadone will always tell you the same, as I do; I can kick heroin anytime, but methadone that is something else. In 15 yrs of heroin addiction, I've kicked 3 times, 'cold-turkey'. In 10 years on methadone I've never kicked methadone.”
Most cases of
addiction treatment will find inpatient drug
treatment to be the best scenario for insuring a full and lasting recovery.
Impatient treatment affords the addict or
alcoholic a safe and secure environment, away from the temptations and stresses of their usual environments.
It also allows them to concentrate fully on their particular and specific issues of recovery with trained personnel who are objective and effective in their assistance and handlings. This probably need not be said but all impatient
drug treatment options are not equal.
When searching for the best options for your loved ones look for many years of experience couple with the highest success rates you can find.
You don’t want the same old cookie cutter approach that has been failing for years.
Addiction can be beaten and one can achieve a lifetime of drug or alcohol free productiveness.
Cravings are extremely powerful urges to use drugs or alcohol again. When triggered,they often cause a person to imagine all kinds of reasons they should begin using drugs or drinking again. Once he or she has relapsed, the addict is now trapped in an endless cycle of trying to quit, craving, relapse and fear of withdrawal. In many drug
rehab programs, these cravings are addressed by administering medications that prevent the onset of withdrawal, and that replace the body’s need for the original drug with a substitute substance. The problem with this approach is that the body’s cravings are masked by the substitute drug and are not eliminated and the individual is not learning to build a new drug-free life. If the medication is dropped, the cravings show up and the person is very likely to lose the battle to stay off his or her drug of choice.
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