Addiction
Addiction has many faces.
The
alcoholic who can’t refuse that first drink; the teenager who finds himself craving methamphetamine to keep going after trying in on a dare; the single mom finding herself using more and more anti-depressants to deal with getting through the day; or the workman now using way to many painkillers to get through the physical stress of the workday.
Most
addiction involves more than one substance as addicts seek solutions to the original drugs adverse affects by mistakenly using other substances in an attempt to escape the harsh realities of
addiction or an attempt to simply get back to normal. Each addiction can have its own symptoms and side effects.
Cravings, quilt, and depression however are almost universally common denominators to addiction, any lasting recovery from addiction must confront and relieve or resolve these three key factors.
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Long term
addiction is a phrase that could be applied to the condition wherein the addict has continued his
addiction despite attempts to terminate it.
We all know someone who has tried over and over to beat the addiction.
There may have even been multiple visits to drug
rehab facilities and just as many relapses following these visits.
There are three key factors that lead to
long term addiction with continual relapse.
These are mental and physical cravings, guilt from all the damage caused, and depression resulting from the shattered hopes and dreams that the addiction has created. An addict is headed either towards, jail, death or sobriety. To achieve lasting sobriety the above three points must be fully resolved. Long term addiction is best addressed in a long term residential
treatment environment.
Drug use occurs in an effort to relieve some form of pain, it may be physical but is often times emotional or a combination of the two.
This could be as simple as using alcohol or pot to avoid peer pressure as a teen, or the use of painkillers after an industrial accident.
Either way the drug is found to alleviate the symptoms.
The bigger the problem, the greater the discomfort and the more relief is sought. With continued
abuse the drugs begin to create mental and physical damage of their own and if continued unchecked the person’s life when sober is filled with despair and misery.
At this point all the person wants to do is escape these feelings by drugging or drinking them away. This is the downward spiral of addiction.
Addiction services needed in most cases go far beyond withdrawal and cessation of use. At Narconon Arrowhead the
addiction services are extensive and comprehensive.
A partial list, and this is only a partial list of some of the main points, includes; Drug free gentle withdrawal, Full
detoxification of drugs and toxins stored in the body, Therapeutic drills designed to extrovert and get the individual back in communication, Legal Liaison when needed, nutritional handlings, increasing abilities to study and learn, recognizing and dealing with individuals or environments which can be dangerous to ones sobriety.
In
addiction a full handling of the cravings, guilt and depression that so often accompany addiction are fully addressed, as well as effectively planning for the future after rehab.
Our
addiction services also include a full family consultant section as we are well aware that addiction affects much more than the addict.
Families generally have lots of questions and concerns regarding their loved ones progress. These are just a few of the life changing
addiction services embraced by Narconon Arrowhead.
When we say
addiction treatments it implies more than one, and so it is.
If we define
treatment per the Encarta dictionary as ‘the particular way somebody or something is dealt with or handled’, we can see that there are usually various ways to achieve this.
When it comes to the many
addiction treatments available one can be overwhelmed with all the options.
Narconon Arrowhead is a long term and non-traditional approach to solving addiction.
What this means is that Narconon methodologies do not use the disease approach to addiction where one is considered ‘sick’ or ‘ill’ for a lifetime. Narconon is an empowering approach where we assist the individual to fully confront and handle the mental and physical cravings, guilt and depression that are the actual sources for drug and alcohol addiction.
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