Alcohol Drug
Alcohol and drugs are often separated out in
addiction thinking for some reason.
These both are actually in the same category. All drugs are essentially poisons.
A small amount of a drug will act as a stimulant, a little more and it will act as a depressant, and given enough of any toxic substance and it will kill you dead.
Alcohol definitely falls into this category. In the case of extreme
alcoholism withdrawal from use can be one of the roughest of all drugs and can be life threatening. Once withdrawal is accomplished the
rehabilitation of an
alcoholic is quite similar to that of a drug addict – A thorough, complete, and long term handling of cravings, guilt, and depression resulting from and being perpetuated by the alcoholism.
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Addictions come in all shapes and sizes.
Some are to alcohol, some to street drugs, some to prescription does, and unfortunately most are a combination of these and are seldom confined to only one drug or substance.
Treatments unfortunately come in all shapes and sizes as well.
Unfortunately because all the salesmanship in the world can’t make a bad
treatment a good one.
So when it come to treatments for
addictions look for programs that have a history, experience with the wide assortment of modern day addictions, are themselves drug free, and most important of all – a proven success rate. Narconon offers all of these with over 40 years of experience in handling all forms of
addictions in a drug free manner and with a success rate consistently over 70 %.
Any talk of drug
addiction or drug
treatment must include those who
abuse alcohol.
Alcohol acts as any other drug or toxin.
A small amount is a stimulant, a larger amount acts as a depressant, and given enough it can and will kill you dead.
Alcohol
addiction acts as any other addiction; we simply give it its own name – alcoholism.
Helping those who
abuse alcohol involves cessation of use and withdrawal (often requiring close medical supervision in an alcoholics case), a full and complete
detoxification of the body, followed by life skills to confront, deal with and effectively remove the cravings, guilt and depression that goes hand in hand with those who heavily abuse alcohol.
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.
One of the key points in looking for a drug and alcohol
rehab lies in understanding rehabilitation.
The work actually means to return someone or something to a previous state or condition or an improvement of a previous condition.
At Narconon Arrowhead we rehabilitate the individual to a previous condition that has actually been vastly improved.
As previous conditions and situations are what led to
addiction it hardly makes sense to return somebody to that without marked improvement.
Narconon drug and alcohol
rehab is not interested in having someone stop using only to have continuing cravings, guilt, and depression as this is the sure road to continued use and relapse. These points are all fully handled so the individual is capable of a new and improved drug free productive life that lasts a lifetime.
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