Thanksgiving is all about family, food and football for some. It can also mean rude comments, arguments and high stress levels that may make you wish you could have a drink to ease the tension. Dealing with family can be hard, especially during the holidays.
Professional help is needed to let you get the personal help that you urgently want to detox from the drug that holds you in its clutches. Once that’s done, you can start on your journey to a new life.
For those who have suffered drug withdrawal symptoms or seen their loved ones go through it, know how tough it can be. In fact, it has been cited as one of the major hurdles to giving up drugs altogether. Once physical dependence on a drug has been established, a person cannot overcome his addiction without professional help. Drug detox may take several forms and should be chosen carefully taking all factors into consideration.
Alcohol or drug addiction is a form of disease and if not treated in the right manner at the right time, it can lead to some serious consequences for the addict as well as his or her family members and friends.
Drug addiction is a multilayered psychosocial phenomenon, and for this reason, there should be little surprise to learn that the drug detoxification process can be equally complex. Detoxification, most simply, involves the elimination of drug or alcohol substances from the body. Detoxification is a medical intervention process that safely helps a substance abuser through the experience of acute withdrawal.
When someone admits that they have a problem with drugs or alcohol and that they desire help, then you should do what it takes to get the individual into treatment and a rehab program. However, it may be easy to think about when you know that this person lives on street corners and then you are unable to reach them. At this time a substance abuse interventionist is going to be your next step and your main focus.
An estimated 17.6 million Americans currently suffer from alcoholism, but only a fraction of the people with alcohol problems seek professional help. Even in severe cases, most people going through alcohol addiction can benefit from some type of treatment.
Withdrawal, in essence, is a group of symptoms that happens upon the sudden discontinuation or decrease in intake of a substance (nicotine, caffeine, medications, recreational drugs or alcohol). In order to experience symptoms of withdrawal, there must first be an established physical (or chemical) dependency to a substance. Alcoholics who are in the process quitting are susceptible to experience alcohol withdrawal (AW).
If you are like many other families looking into organizing an intervention, then, like many families you’ve probably read a few books on the subject, maybe a few articles, and I’m sure gotten an earful, especially from anyone who’s been part of one. Unfortunately a lot of the data that is out there on the subject all points to a basic formula supposedly common to all interventions. For example the family meeting where letters composed by family members beforehand are written and read aloud. Perhaps an ultimatum is given at this point. Doors are shut and so on. Some books even suggest having a bag packed and ready to go.
What is a moment of change? Many individuals in the grip of co-occurring disorders experience breakthroughs that change their lives, whether through treatment, intervention, 12-Step or other means. We want to increase the instances of these breakthroughs by combining our knowledge, efforts and innovation at the Moments of Change conference.
To help the alcoholic you love you first must help yourself. You will never be able to help the alcoholic until you help yourself. Alcohol addiction tends to involve everyone the alcoholic is in contact with on some kind of level. Those who are in the path of the alcoholic, usually a spouse, desperately need to know how to emotionally detach from the abuse of the alcoholic. In some cases the mental, emotionally and even physical abuse is so bad that couples must separate.
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