Drug and Alcohol Addiction Treatment

When it comes to Drug & Alcohol addiction treatment, Rehab centers are the things that come to mind , may it be because of the TV shows or movies. Now-a-days there are numerous rehab centers that are available to people in order to help the addicts get back on their feet and reorganize their lives. There are other methods to make people relinquish drugs. These methods can derive treatments to an extent where an individual may even develop an aversion to drugs. For example, electric shock treatment is widely known to be one such a relatively more extreme method to help one-self give up drugs. But there is no better treatment that would produce better results than voluntarily giving up substance abuse.

Rehab centers and groups are the best know solution to drug problems and they help the addicts fight their fears with a peer group. They provide the support essential to stay strong. Generally addicts are either forced or volunteered to such programs; people who attend willingly show much thriving progress than the forced ones.

The process for rehabilitation oriented treatment varies between each group and also from person to person. They make a psychological analysis for each individual to assess the root cause for him/her to get into such substance abuse and the treatment is put into action accordingly. Each person’s life is analyzed and decisions are taken according to the information gathered from medical history, past rehab treatments and psychiatric history. Most treatments, however start with detoxification, which involves sudden withdrawal of harmful drugs from the body, generally it is administered carefully by a physician. Even though the process does not completely eliminate the total effects of addiction; it provides an initial step to deal with sociological & psychological problems methods like inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment including personal counseling.

There are some well-known effective techniques like Long term residential treatment, Short term residential treatment, personnel counseling, Group Counseling, etc. These programs vary from staying in a special location for weeks to months, where several methods are adopted to study the patient and revive his/her social and personal life. People may or may not be benefited from such programs, it all depends on the individual involvement, commitment and also his/her will to give in. There are some instances where people who are labeled as “successfully rehabilitated” of drugs have begun the habit later in their life. It all takes one out-of-control moment, a person that is so dear to the patient or an incident that leaves a significant impact on the person’s will, where he/she really starts to try to give up such habits. So, the rehab centers & several such programs try to focus on patient’s personnel life; going deep into his/her past, finding out the reasons for his/her addiction either to drugs or alcohol; by again socializing him/her getting to meet with similar people, sharing their thoughts, giving independent or sometimes even group counselling in order to get the patient back on his feet. There are also some after-care groups where the newly admitted people are made to meet with successfully treated people. once the rehabilitated people are more established they are even given a chance to mentor those who

are newly recovering.