Drug and Alcohol Rehab Newport Pagnell

It is normal to feel overwhelmed by the idea of drug and alcohol rehab. After all, most people never really think about what it involves and how to access the help they offer.

How Does Rehab Work?

Now more than ever, people are seeking help for their various addictions. In addition, they have to take those first brave steps toward long-term recovery, trying to find out as much as possible about what happens at drug and alcohol rehab. When you learn about the recovery process, you will know there is nothing to fear.

To begin with, rehab is a specialised medical facility designed to help you overcome your addiction. It offers you a series of treatments designed to tackle both the physical and mental aspects of addiction so you can learn how to manage it yourself.

It is important that you know before you begin the recovery process that alcohol and drug addiction is not something that can be cured. You need to have realistic expectations that you will always have your addiction in one form or another.

However, through the help of a rehab centre in the Newport Pagnell area, you can still live a long, happy life.

Physical addiction must be dealt with first, as it can be dangerous for it to be ignored. While not all drugs cause a physical addiction, some, such as heroin, do, and all alcohol does.

The physical addiction is treated through a drug and alcohol detox, which is a process that takes around ten days to complete. During this time, you will experience some withdrawal symptoms, including nausea, headaches and mood swings.

The supervising medical team won’t allow them to progress to the more dangerous symptoms such as hallucinations or seizures. The alcohol and drug detox can give you a fresh start. After you have finished, you won’t need to worry about experiencing withdrawal symptoms again.

It should also deal with the physical cravings for drugs or alcohol leaving just the mental addiction, which is treated through therapy focused on helping you understand what triggers your cravings.

Once you know and understand your triggers and cravings, you can try to avoid them and deal with them more healthily than substance abuse.

 

 

The Drug and Alcohol Detox Process

A key treatment during your stay in rehab will be the drug and alcohol detox. This is done to allow you to safely never need to abuse substances again. This process takes around ten days to complete, but this may vary slightly from person to person, so it is nothing to worry about.

During this process, you will be monitored day and night by the rehab centre’s medical team, who monitor your progress and ensure you are as safe as possible. This is important because you will likely experience withdrawal symptoms.

Withdrawal symptoms occur because your body believes it needs drugs or alcohol to produce dopamine when you develop an addiction. As a result, your brain has become chemically dependent on it.

So when your cravings for more drugs or alcohol are ignored, your brain panics, resulting in you going into withdrawal.

Withdrawal symptoms can include:

• Migraine
• Measure
• Vomiting
• Diarrhoea
• Muscle pain
• Muscle spasm
• Sweats
• Chills
• Mood swings
• Depression
• Insomnia
• Anxiety
• Paranoia
• Light sensitivity
• Delirium
• Fever
• Hallucination
• Seizures

The supervising medical team ensures that your withdrawal symptoms never get a chance to progress to the point of danger. In addition, they can provide you with medication that can simulate the effects of your substance of choice to trick your brain and ease the withdrawal symptoms.

 

Benefits of Inpatient Rehab

The main benefit of inpatient alcohol and drug rehab is that it gives you a rare break away from everyday life. For the complete 28-day treatment plan, your needs are taken care of, and your focus will improve.

Inpatient rehab can also offer you all of your treatments, giving you a much more streamlined and linear recovery process than if you were to go for the outpatient alternative.

This is more likely to lead to a successful recovery process than if you were to have to stop and start each treatment due to needing to travel in for them.

Inpatient rehab puts you at the centre of your recovery. Everything is done around what’s best for you, not when your treatments can be scheduled. It is the convenient and best option available to anyone who needs help with their addiction in the Newport Pagnell area.

 

 How Long Does Rehab Take?

Technically speaking, you can leave rehab wherever you want. So your stay can be as long or as short as you desire. However, there are some recommendations for how long you should be staying.

Rehab takes as long as your treatments do in many cases so it can be a shorter stay for some than others, depending on their selected treatment plans.  One such option is to just stay for your detox treatment which is only ten days.

However, for the best results, it is recommended that you stay for the full 28 days to receive all of your treatments in the rehab centre.

 

Help Your Loved One Get Treatment

If you or your loved one needs help, Asana Lodge is here to help. We offer self and family referrals so that help can be found no matter the situation.

We can talk you through everything you need to know to gently introduce the idea of private drug and alcohol rehab to your loved one or answer any questions you may have about your own needs.

You are not alone in this. All you need to do is give us a call at 01908 489 421 and let us shoulder some of your burdens.

Everything will be alright. We are here to help you or your loved one to overcome an addiction and work towards a better tomorrow.