If any member in your family is addicted, then seeking professional help from addiction rehabilitation centre is what you should do. Rehab centre is can help the addicted get out of his compulsive behavior and lead a normal life just like others. There are now a lot of rehab centers whose recovery programs can adapt the specific needs of an addict. A center of high quality can assure better results as it will help an addict form a resolution to change. n addict may be compared to a chemical that is amorphous and shapeless and then molded by the rehab center into a structured, crystalline form. This mutation is brought about by the following steps.

Self Belief in Change: An addict is convinced that he is not one for life; he can change; he has that power and ability in himself only if he will try through their assistance.

Treatment: Only detox and withdrawal handling support with nutritious diet is compulsory. The rest is up to the patient himself who has to pursue the commitment he made to change. Counselors guide and support him all the way.

Inspirational: Counselors inspire and motivate the patient to make positive goals, change ways of thoughts and pursue his goals for success.

Abstinence is not a must but is desirable. Self control is more important. A modern enlightened addiction treatment center realizes that one cannot stop overnight and controlled decrease is a better route to success.

Vital life skills are very important. Any effective and concerned addiction rehab center will concentrate on this vital aspect of the treatment since it is only in the outside world that a reformed patient will face pressures and triggers that lead to a relapse.

Through a solid grounding in life skills which means better self control and maintaining a calm approach he can handle situations without being affected. The effects and results of such skills are lasting.

At the core of the treatment is the patient himself and his resolve. Concerned and caring addiction rehabs will always take this as the starting point in a rehab and work on it.

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One of the main things that I teach newly recovering alcoholics/addicts to do, is to identify the roles that chemicals play in their lives. This is especially important since the chemical has occupied so many crucial roles or functions and that removing it from a person’s life leaves big, gaping holes in their behavioral repetoire. When you identify the roles previously played by the chemical, you then identify possible healthy alternatives to replace the roles with. Early on, it is usually simple things like meetings, prayer, meditation, exercise, calling people for help, etc. Its pretty difficult to learn sophisticated living skills when you are hanging on by your fingernails. A little later in recovery, we are still working on replacing the roles with healthy alternatives, but we are focusing more on developinig more indepth living skills, and working to solve the most pressing of problems.

Often, by the time that someone finds his way to recovery, he has focused so much on getting the next drug, using it, and getting over it, that they don’t have a full grasp of the disarray that his life is truly in. The bills may be stacked up and unpaid. There may be impending court dates. Extended family members may not be speaking to him. He may be unemployed or underemployed. He may lack frustration tolerance, stress managment, feelings expression skills, and inability to communicate and problem solve with others. The following problems list can help the recovering person begin to repair the damage caused in his life by addiction. To use this checklist, identify which problems you have, rank them from most pressing to least pressing, taking into account the items as short term and long term goals.

The Problems Checklist

Check the problems on this list that you have currently. Identify whether you look at these items as short term or long term goals. Rank the ones you identified in terms of most pressing to least pressing, (i.e. #1, #2, #3).

Check Rank

____ ____ Housing, or appropriate place to live
____ ____ Medical or dental problems or need for checkups
____ ____ Regaining custody of children or finding Appropriate childcare
____ ____ Legal and court problems
____ ____ Relationship issues
____ ____ Social network problems (i.e. drug using friends/acquaintences)
____ ____ Feeling management skills
____ ____ Education issues such as going back to school, GED, additional training, etc.
____ ____ Psychololgical issues like anxiety, depression, mental confusion, mood swings, etc.
____ ____ Lack of structure and time management skills
____ ____ Lack of stress management skills
____ ____ Impatience, lack of frustration tolerance, demand for immediate gratification
____ ____ Lack of self-esteem, self-confidence, or positive identity
____ ____ Shame and guilt about hurting family or need to make amends
____ ____ Poor communication skills and/or poor conflict management skills
____ ____ Other obsessive compulsive behaviors
____ ____ Alienation, not feeling like you fit in, loneliness, isolation
____ ____ Lack of motivation or Procrastination
____ ____ Reliable Transportation
____ ____ Financial concerns or unpaid bills
____ ____ Job training or employment

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