Advances In Drug Rehab
We have come a long way since the victims of drug abuse were confined to a locked room and left to suffer the “cold turkey” approach to shake their habit. Today drug addiction is recognised and treated as an illness rather than a sin where specialised drug rehab clinics now address the condition holistically. For long term success a drug rehab programme must deal with physical, mental and spiritual needs.
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Although lapses can occur, even during treatment, no drug rehab programme that fails to treat each of these areas as vital to the patient’s recovery is likely to result in a full recovery. In clinics and treatment centres where drug rehab is undertaken, much emphasis is placed on providing peaceful and relaxing surroundings and in in-depth counselling to ascertain the circumstances that may have led to an addiction.
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The spiritual component of drug rehab treatment seeks also to assist the patient with re-integration into society once he or she is considered free of the addiction and may extend to instructing friends and relatives on how to assist with this process. Drug rehab today then,
adopts a rather more positive and motivational approach as compared to the earlier therapeutic attempts.
Apart from advances in psychotherapy and improved medical treatments to help reduce substance dependence, it has also become more apparent that drug rehab treatments may need to be quite protracted on occasions to guarantee their success.
In short one can’t treat a patient in drug rehab like someone with a chest infection, by prescribing two weeks of antibiotics and bed rest. For success, each case must be assessed individually before determining a course of therapy and the patient discharged only when the clinic staff is confident of his or her progress.
In short not all drug rehab centres are equal! Before considering a course of treatment for yourself or a loved-one it is well worth making enquiries at the South Coast Recover Centre.
An Insight Into Drug Addiction Rehab
To truly understand the requirements for drug addiction rehab, one must first be clear on the definition of rehabilitation. To rehabilitate is to assist a person to regain his or her rightful position in society and to fulfil their potential through a process of education and other therapies.
Drug addiction rehab, then, means more than just alleviating a craving. It means helping the victim to understand and cope with those circumstances that led to addiction; to re-integrate into society and to function according to its accepted norms.
It sounds simple enough when you are reading about it but, in practice, the process of drug addiction rehab is often a long and arduous journey for the addict that requires the support and care of skilled helpers with each step taken. Naturally, that journey does begin by addressing the craving and controlled detoxification is an important part of the primary care process during drug addiction rehab.
Along with the detoxification, the primary care period of an effective drug addiction rehab programme must also provide professional counselling to help the patient acknowledge the problem, recognise its causes and rationalise the wisdom of resisting any relapse. Despite this, relapses during primary care are not uncommon and drug addiction rehab protocols will the primary care until it proves effective.
According to most studies the most effective drug addiction rehab programmes employ a holistic approach. The best centres use an individual treatment plan tailored to each patient and structured around the well-establishes 12-step plan originally developed by Alcoholics Anonymous. Today’s greater emphasis on the spiritual needs of drug addiction rehab focus on re-affirming such values as honesty, integrity and family values that serve to complete the holistic plan.
Deciding Between Rehab Centres
Everyone knows that drug addiction has grown alarmingly in recent years. Newspapers and television constantly assail us with statistics of a worrying trend towards younger victims as well as an increase in drug-related crimes. Rehab centres are more in demand today than ever before and have become a vital weapon against the spread of addiction. Without such rehab centres the war on drugs would be a losing battle.
South Africa has, despite tough anti-drug laws, experienced one of the highest growths in addiction and the country now has hundreds of rehab centres dedicated to assisting addicts. These centres vary in both size and effectiveness and include small consultancies, day clinics, out-patient centres and full service residential care facilities.
The smaller rehab centres tend, largely, to address physical and perhaps psychosocial needs but most of the large, residential rehab centres have now adopted a far more holistic approach to therapy having recognised the vital importance of addressing a patient’s spiritual needs in parallel with his or her medical and psychological ones for lasting results.
It is important to remember that effective rehab centres are also required to address the all too common medical complications that may accompany drug addiction such as Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. It is common practice to lump alcohol addiction and drug abuse together, particularly as the two often occur concurrently.
Although there are some basic differences in the approach to their treatment, many of the more successful rehab centres use a modified version of the 12-step plan originally coined by Alcoholics Anonymous.
The South Coast Recovery Centre has achieved exceptional success among the country’s rehab centres and is a firm believer in the holistic approach to rehabilitation. Beautiful, calming surroundings and an expert and caring team have led to it becoming the first choice of many.
So, instead of just scouring the yellow pages for rehab centres, why not contact The South Coast Recover Centre and see for yourself what makes them so different.
Written by Merril Birnie.
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SCRC's approach is aimed at facilitating change from the culture of addiction to the culture of recovery.
This process will yield limited success when approached outside of a residential treatment facility particularly when detoxification is required. It is imperative that individuals entering treatment are given as much training and education as possible.
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