Drug Addictions
Mental as well as physical dependence both fall under the label of drug addictions.
These occur when one no longer feels able to control their use despite harm or damage being caused to self or others.
There is sometimes the mistaken idea that unless a drug or substance causes physical
addiction it is not addictive.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Mental drug
addictions can be just as debilitating to the individual as physical ones, at times even more so. The surge in violence and suicide among our young people and adolescents trying to break free from the traps of prescribed anti-psychotics and anti-depressants are all too obvious examples. Drug
addictions are not confined to street drugs or illegal substances, but are crossing age, race, economic, and education levels. Drugs are never the near cure-alls they are increasingly being made out to be in the advertising arenas.
Drug Rehab Information By State
There are several things necessary in order to affect
addiction recovery for a life time.
One of these is a drug free withdrawal and full
detoxification program.
Substitute or maintenance drugs are not a viable long term option.
Ask any heroin addict who is now using methadone in addition to heroin, or ask any meth addict who now finds themselves abusing anti-depressants on a regular basis.
Using additional drugs does not handle the barriers to continued drug use, but only adds to them. At Narconon Arrowhead most of our participants who have completed the New Life
Detoxification Program report and end to cravings, have removed all drugs and toxins from the body, and show a marked resurgence in overall sense of well-being.
How does one help addiction?
First of course is stopping drug use, normally known as withdrawal.
Second would be a return to physical health and vitality.
At Narconon Arrowhead we take this a step further and deliver the New Life
Detoxification Program to thoroughly rid the body of all stored drugs and toxins.
Third should be gaining the life skills and abilities to fully confront and resolve the three main components of continuing
addiction which are cravings, guilt, and depression. This results in the ability to put an end to drug
addiction and lead a happy, productive, drug free life. There are certainly additional factors that come up and need to be dealt with on a person by person individual level.
Drug
abuse can and does take many forms. The corporate CEO addicted to cocaine, The college alcohol and drug binge party, A small child mis-diagnosed and addicted to Ritalin, the housewife unable to get through the day without her anti-depressants, to the hardworking husband now trapped in the use of painkillers.
There is hardly an American household who doesn’t know someone adversely affected by drug abuse.
At Narconon Arrowhead drug
rehab facility we deal with the individual affected by drug abuse.
Each has their own story and each has individual issues and problems needing confronted and solved in order to achieve a lasting and permanent drug free and productive lifestyle.
Not labels and categorizing of people, but life skills learned and applied to the individual to resolve their situations.
Effective drug
abuse treatment which can halt the debilitating effects of drug and alcohol
abuse before full blown
addiction sets in is a vital tool in restoring happy productive lives.
Unfortunately many do not think about seeking help until
addiction is in full bloom.
The need for
drug abuse treatment is usually best initiated by loved ones of the abuser.
The abuser often has lots of reasons and justifications for their abuse and won’t really see it as abuse until it is driven home to them.
It is a short drive from
drug abuse to
drug addiction and the lines are often blurred at best.
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