December, 2009

Sober life is your right

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Sober life is your fundamental right and such sober life is often challenged by drug addiction or alcohol addiction and their tentacles almost ruin your sober life. Why to be engrossed in such addiction that threatens your birthright?

When you become drug addicted, people including your neighbors look at you with the corner of eyes. You start feeling that the word untouchable is slapped on you. Why should you continue even after that?

This is more ridiculous when even your fiance starts hating you. Perhaps you have started consumption of alcohol or drug because of him or her. It may be strange that blame is ultimately shifted to you and your drug addiction comes into the fore because of break up of such relation.

If somebody respects you because of your quality and you start taking drugs or alcohol, even he is cautioned by his parents.

Just imagine, the drug addiction or alcohol addiction is so powerful that it can even dismantle your hard earned quality. Why still to continue with such notorious drug addiction?

The parents or relatives, who used to love you so much, starts looking at you with a hatred feeling just because of your drug addiction. They start avoiding you. Even the small kid is warned against your accompany. Why to continue drug addiction even them?

Get back to your sober life which has to be drug free!

The comprehensive treatment program at Alexander Clinic

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Addiction is a progressive illness, but the good news is that it can be arrested and treated. However, relapses do occur especially if the menace is not properly treated and support by the kith and kin is withdrawn.

For a drug rehab center to be successful and effectively treat addicts, the management has to ensure that the team of doctors and the paramedic staff is not only competent, but is also empathetic and is responsive to the legitimate needs of the addicts.

At a strategic level, flexibility has to be incorporated so that treatment is offered on a case to case basis. In other words, unless there are tailor made programs for different people inflicted by substance abuse, the results would be far from satisfactory.

The management of the Scotland Aberdeen Drug Rehabilitation Alcohol Treatment Center is willing to walk that extra mile to ensure that the de addiction is a fool proof and long lasting process.

Be it an alcohol addict, drug addict or somebody hooked to gambling, the Alexander Clinic provides a specialized treatment program that is designed to help patients live a sober, content and meaningful life without the use of any mood altering chemicals.

The holistic approach of the treatment program ensures that the physical, mental, psychological and social requirements are looked into and taken care of.

Alcohol rehabilitation program

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Alcohol addicts prove to be a major social, economic, and public health problem. Not only do these persons adversely affect their private and family lives, they also cause major hindrances in public life.

Accidental deaths, drunken brawls, abusing rules and regulations after those extended bouts of alcohol are a case in point.

The first step towards the solution of the problem is the recognition of the problem itself. Most Alcoholics refuse to accept that they have a problem and they need expert help to bail them out of the crisis.

More often than not, most of the alcohol addicts get admitted to a drug rehab center on the insistence of a near and dear one.

Experts opine that it is best to enter a dialogue with an addict when he is sober. Any discussion with this person when he is under the influence of alcohol is a waste of time. 

Various programs aimed at detoxification and rehabilitation are available which the addicts can avail of. Detoxification is the first step towards getting rid of this substance abuse.

Alcohol is withdrawn in controlled, supervised environment wherein specialists handle withdrawal symptoms.

At each step support from the family members is required to ensure that the relapse does not occur. In most counseling, psychological support programs, family members are also counseled.

The horrific withdrawal symptoms

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For the alcohol addict, the road towards sobriety may be bumpy and the journey may be a tortuous one for the withdrawal symptoms may be severe.

Although the withdrawal symptoms may vary from case to case, tremors, uncontrollable body shaking, restlessness, insomnia, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting are the most common ones.

In some cases, tongue problems, drooping eyelids and dizziness can also occur. Some patients, while undergoing treatment at a drug rehab center, also experience hallucinations, rapid heart rate, sweating and convulsions.

In cases of acute withdrawal symptoms, the drug rehab center may have to administer tranquilizers and sedatives on the patient.

The process of detoxification normally takes up to a week. Meanwhile, other tests are undertaken to rule out problems of liver and blood clots. Additionally, depression and other mood disorders may creep in which warrant expert treatment.

To bypass these withdrawal symptoms, Aversion therapy, also known as deterrent therapy may also be used to get rid of the substance abuse.

This therapy entails the use of a drug that gets in the way of alcohol metabolism.

The drug results in obnoxious side effects even if a small quantity of alcohol is consumed after taking the drug. Aversion therapy is not given in pregnancy and in certain medical conditions.

 Tailor made programs essential for de-addiction

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Substance abuse may be defined as an intense and uncontrollable drug craving, along with obsessive drug seeking and use that continues even in the face of distressing consequences.

Drug abuse has so many dimensions and disrupts so many aspects of an individual’s life that treatment is a complex phenomenon.

To be termed as effective, addiction treatment must enable the individual to discontinue using drugs, continue with a drug-free lifestyle, and also achieve productive functioning in the family, at work, and in the society.

Cocaine de-addiction too warrants a comprehensive treatment program that not only ensures that the underlying addiction issues are addressed, but also promotes a patient’s mental and emotional health during the healing process.

A cocaine addiction program may vary on a case to case basis and may include one or more of the following: Detox: To rinse out the drug toxins from the body, alternative programs like yoga, meditation and massage therapy, individual counseling and family counseling.

No single treatment is appropriate for everyone. Therefore, good drug rehab centers make each patient undergo an initial assessment to gauge the needs of the addict and then assign a primary therapist that does all the hand holding throughout the addict’s treatment.