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What is Alcohol Rehab Really Like?

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Alcohol abuse rehab centers help you help yourself in a supportive, educational, and healthy environment.

Alcohol rehab can be the key ingredient to alcohol addiction recovery and in a person remaining sober. How alcohol rehab impacts a person will depend on the person’s mentality about rehab and their strength in overcoming their withdrawal symptoms.

Why People Need Alcohol Rehab

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, drug addiction is a chronic illness that takes over a person’s ability to control their drug cravings. When a person is addicted to a drug, such as alcohol, they will have powerful drug cravings and uncontrollable drug seeking behavior that will continue to occur despite of the consequences.

Furthermore, addiction is a brain disease that affects multiple circuits in a person’s brain, which includes those circuits that are involved in control over behavior, motivation and reward, and learning and memory.

When a person forms an addiction to alcohol they will abuse the substance frequently and they will have uncontrollable urges to continually use the drug. Alcohol addiction typically leads to alcohol dependency, which is when a person will feel abnormal and sick if they do not have alcohol in their body. They will feel this way because their body will begin to go through withdrawal every time they do not have alcohol in their system.

The withdrawal symptoms from alcohol can be intense and can be painful, which is why many people need help to get through them. Going to a rehab can help a person get through the withdrawal symptoms while receiving the help they need to manage their addiction.

What Alcohol Rehab is Really Like and How it Helps

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, since the 1970s scientific research shows that treatment programs can help patients addicted to drugs avoid relapse, stop using, and successfully improve their lives. Research also indicates that there are several key principles that should form the basis of effective treatment, one of these principles is that effective treatment needs to attend to the multiple needs of the person in question.

Alcohol rehab is the treatment needed for people to successfully overcome their brain disease of alcohol addiction. When a person first admits themselves into rehab they will begin to go through alcohol detox. Alcohol detox can be extremely difficult, but an alcohol rehab will help a person get through the physical withdrawal symptoms, and will make sure that they have a safe detox. If the physical withdrawal symptoms become too painful for a person, the rehab’s doctors may prescribe a person some medication to help through the physical symptoms.

In addition, a person in rehab can expect to have counseling sessions. Counseling and therapy are very important because a person will go through psychological withdrawal symptoms, and since addiction is a chronic brain disease a person will need help learning how to regain control of their life again. Alcohol rehab will work with a person every step of the way to ensure that a person receives the results they want and learns to live a life free from alcohol abuse.

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Alcoholic dementia can be treated with professional help.

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Tips for Choosing Local Rehab Centers

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10 Ways Rehab Centers Help Your Drug Addiction Recovery

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According to the NIH, “Substance abuse and addiction are serious, but treatable, medical problems.” Without proper treatment, however, it can be very difficult to overcome addiction. Rehab centers provide successful and beneficial treatment methods to patients, many of whom have struggled for years with addictions beforehand. Detoxification, which is usually the first step at a….

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Recognizing Prescription Drug Abuse in Seniors

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Prescription drug abuse is a growing concern across all walks of life and among every age group. The consequences for seniors, however, can be far more devastating due to their health and vulnerability. As these individuals get older, they are more likely to be exposed to prescription medications and like other prescription drug users, succumb….

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An Inspiring Glimpse into Recovery from Meth Addiction

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The mugshot of people who have used meth over the years and rapidly progressed from average looking people to near death are plastered all over the internet—the infographic is called the “Faces of Meth” and for good cause. Unfortunately, very few people have had the opportunity to actually hear the real life stories behind the photos….

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Genetic Predisposition to Drug Addiction

There is a link between drug addiction and genetics.

There is mixed evidence as to whether drug addiction is actually predisposed by the genes or not but one thing that is known for sure is that addictive behavior is predisposed. What this means is that although actually being addicted to drugs may not be genetic there are genetic factors that play a role in….

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The Dangers of Combining Cocaine and Alcohol during the Holidays

As disparate as cocaine and alcohol may be in effect, cocaine and alcohol seemingly balance each other out, with one substance smoothing out the effects of the other. While the combined “high” produced by these two substances may feel pleasant, this combination can be deadly when ingested on a frequent basis. The holidays offer a….

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Palm Partners Proudly Offers Dual Diagnosis Treatment for Successful Recovery from Chemical Dependency

Dual diagnosis treatment can help you overcome your addiction once and for all!

Palm Partners of Delray Beach, Florida is proud to offer dual diagnosis treatment to assist individuals in overcoming both chemical dependency and co-occurring mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression and bi-polar disorder. During the dual-diagnosis program at Palm Partners Recovery Center, clients learn about their individual mental health problem and they also learn the….

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