Long Term Drug Treatment
Long term drug
treatment is proving to be more and more effective in handling
addiction and
alcoholism for a lifetime.
With the majority of
rehab participants entering
treatment with multiple drugs of
abuse and
addiction a long term
drug treatment becomes more and more an important point in obtaining lifetime sobriety. There is also marked increase in potency of many of the drugs on the market these days to say nothing of the epidemic increase in the
abuse of
prescription drugs many of which have life threatening side effects.
Treatment needs to be monitored not in terms of days spent in treatment but rather in terms of lasting results for a lifetime.
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At Narconon Arrowhead we do no refer to our participants as ‘patients’ but rather they are considered ‘students’. Using the word ‘patient’ tends to give an erroneous impression of illness and disease, which is not the main thrust of our program.
Certainly issues of health and nutrition need to corrected, especially in the withdrawal and
detoxification phases of the program. The term student is used as we are educating the individual into the use of the tools and abilities needed to sustain a continuous drug free productive life and to confront and resolve the three main factors behind relapse and continued use.
Addiction is not a disease of a lifetime.
It can and is being ended on a daily basis here a Narconon Arrowhead.
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.
At Narconon Arrowhead
rehab treatment center we recognize depression as a factor the locks an addict into his addiction.
Depression is a source of significant discomfort that prompts continued use and is a major barrier to recovery.
Some traditional medical and psychiatric-based programs treat the depression as the cause of
addiction with further drugs and medications which only serve to mask the symptoms. Once these additional drugs wear off, depression returns, often worse. This makes the recovery process more difficult, if not impossible.
In most cases depression actually manifests itself after the person becomes addicted, not before.
The cause of the depression is linked to the drugs themselves.
Painkillers, once prescribed, all too often open the door to tenacious
addiction and dependency.
In the U.S. alone over 15 million people have abused
prescription drugs with more than 2 million of these being teenagers.
Most teenagers using painkillers to get high assume they are safer than street drugs.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Doctors and drug
rehab professionals report painkiller
addiction as one of the most difficult
addictions to treat, the most serious being opiods. These are opium like compounds which interfere with the human nervous system as well as artificially stimulating portions of the brain. Painkiller addiction results in mental as well as physical addiction as well as increasing tolerance where higher and higher doses of the painkiller are craved in an effort to ease the addiction Narconon Arrowhead has one of the highest success rates in handling
painkiller addiction to a full and lasting resolution.
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