Drug Addiction Recovery
True and lasting drug
addiction recoveries involves handling the three factors that lead up to and then continue addiction.
These three factors are 1. The cravings, mental and physical for the drugs and/or alcohol; 2.
The guilt that comes from the lifestyle of
addiction and the things done to loved ones that haunt us; and 3. The depression that comes from reduced health, lack of self-control, broken lives and relationships, as well as financial and criminal burdens.
Unless these three factors are fully addressed and fully resolved there is little chance of lasting
drug addiction recovery.
There really are only three options when it comes to drug or
alcohol addiction – jail, death, or sobriety. Narconon can return you or your loved one to a drug free productive life of sobriety.
Drug Rehab Information By State
There are various forms and methods of ingesting drugs and toxins. Orally, nasally, injecting, and smoking are a few of these. The effects from smoking drugs as opposed to orally ingesting them or nasally generally creates a more intense effect faster. This is one of the factors that make crack cocaine a tougher
addiction to break than powder cocaine.
Drugs like Oxycontin are often ground up and mixed with other drugs and smoked for faster more intense highs as well. Also many times the harder drugs like heroin are smoked under the misunderstanding that the risk of
addiction is lower and this is definitely not true.
Addiction is addiction, some methods of taking drugs will take you to addiction faster and with more devastating effects.
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.”
Rehabilitate means to return to a previous condition or an improvement of even that.
An
addiction rehab that is truly effective will bypass restoring the individual to a previous condition and go straight for an improvement of even that.
The reasoning is relatively simple.
The previous condition obviously contributed to and led up to the drug
abuse and
addiction to begin with.
If one is trying to insure a drug free productive condition that will last a lifetime than one better locate, address, and fully resolve those past factors that contributed to and let up to the addiction initially and then kept it going.
Alcohol
abuse treatment is similar to the
treatment required for full blown alcoholism.
Medical withdrawal may or may not be indicated, and needs to be assessed by competent medical professionals, as unsupervised, these can be life threatening.
Cravings, guilt, and depression are the three factors causing and then continuing alcohol
abuse or alcoholism. Any treatment aiming at an alcohol free lifestyle cannot hope to effect lasting change without fully addressing these three points.
The only real difference between
alcohol abuse and
alcoholism is the severity of use, both have use patterns that are to a greater or lesser degree out of control, and severity of both mental and physical effects created and now needing dealt with.
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