Drug and Alcohol Rehab Kingsthorpe

While it is now more than ever acceptable to talk about your mental health and be open with your loved ones, it doesn’t change the fact that it can be hard to be vulnerable with someone else.

Signs You or a Loved One Needs Treatment

It can be challenging to start a conversation with a loved one to ask if they need help especially if you are not even sure if they do need help or not.

In regard to drug and alcohol addition, your loved one may not feel ready to discuss their issues, and they may not even realise they have an addiction.

There are some signs you can be on the lookout for that will tell you if you or your loved one is struggling with an addiction and needs treatment from a rehab centre in the Kingsthorpe area.

Signs can be any of the following:

• The day starts and ends with substance abuse
• Work and leisure activities are missed in favour of abusing a substance
• You or your loved one put themselves in danger to get more drugs or alcohol, either through driving under the influence or going to a dangerous location
• You or your loved one regularly break the law to acquire controlled substances such as cannabis, cocaine or heroin
• You or your loved one experience withdrawal symptoms if you go too long without drugs or alcohol
• You or your loved one have a family history of addiction or substance abuse
• You or your loved one have been exposed to substance abuse from a young age normalising the behaviour

If you believe that you or your loved one needs help, options are available. You don’t have to do this alone because there are people ready and waiting to offer you the support you or your loved one needs to make a positive change.

 

 

What Happens During Detox?

Alcohol and drug addiction is a complicated medical condition that can cause serious physical effects. One such effect is that if you are addicted to alcohol or certain drugs, you will experience withdrawal symptoms should you stop using them.

The detox treatment is designed to deal with these withdrawal symptoms so that you can safely carry on with the rest of your treatments without the fear of experiencing withdrawal symptoms again. What exactly happens during your drug and alcohol detox depends on you and your specific needs. However, there are some standard parts.

During your detox, you will be kept away from all drugs and alcohol that have not been prescribed and administered by the supervising medical team.

You will be monitored over a 10-day period to see how you are progressing as your body rids itself of all toxins, which include drugs and alcohol. During this time, you will never be left alone to keep you safe from your withdrawal symptoms.

Should the withdrawal symptoms prove too much for your body to handle, the supervising medical team will provide you with medication to relieve the worst symptoms. So while you may experience a headache and nausea, you will be spared from seizures.

Following the alcohol and drug detox, you won’t experience withdrawal symptoms again so long as you avoid relapsing and having drugs or alcohol.

 

How Addiction Therapies Work

Addiction isn’t something that just happens. It is often caused by substance abuse being used to cover up a more profound mental health condition that needs addressing for any real progress to be made. This is why a detox alone won’t be able to do much for an addiction.

While detox can deal with the chemical addiction, it is the mental addiction that has a greater long-term impact.

Addiction therapies work by first helping you to understand why you abuse substances in the first place. Some common reasons include:

• Childhood trauma
• Undiagnosed mental illness such as anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder
• PTSD
• Trauma
• Dopamine deficiency
• ADHD

Substance abuse is often used to mask these conditions or to self-medicate, as accessing real help can be difficult.

Once the cause of the substance abuse is identified, you will be able to understand your triggers. For example, someone with PTSD from military service may become distressed at the sound of fireworks and use alcohol to avoid a panic attack.

With therapy, you would replace substance abuse with a healthier coping mechanism that can deal with the root cause and not just cover it up and hope it goes away.

Addiction therapies work by teaching you how to manage your addiction through a combination of avoiding the triggers for your cravings and teaching you healthier coping mechanisms to replace your substance abuse.

 

Aftercare Services in Kingsthorpe

The help you or your loved one can receive from private drug and alcohol rehab doesn’t end just because the treatments are completed. Instead, aftercare services can be accessed for up to a year after the rehab stay.

Aftercare services include:

• Follow-up therapy sessions to monitor progress
• Personalised relapse prevention plans filled with the tools and techniques learnt in rehab
• A referral to a local support group such as alcoholics anonymous or narcotics anonymous

This is all designed to give you or your loved one the best possible chance at achieving long-term recovery.

 

Start Treatment Today

If you are ready to get started, we are ready to help you.

With Asana Lodge, we can help you or your loved one in their recovery journey by offering high-quality drug and alcohol rehab facilities in rehab in Kingsthorpe for anyone who wants them.

All you need to do is call our admissions team at 01908 489 421 so arrangements can be made.

We understand that this is difficult and just the start of a very long journey, but taking those first brave steps means that the most challenging part is done. Making the decision to change your life for the better and asking for help means that you are already on the right path.

All you need to do now is continue to follow it for long-term recovery.