Drug addiction rehab refers to drug rehabilitation. Nothing can be deadlier than severe addiction to drug. It’s more like a disease that has no cure. Addicts know very well that drug consumption is fatal for them, but this knowledge doesn’t realize into any good. Addiction takes over whatever free-will or determination they have and those hapless people end up being examples of how lethal drug addiction can be.  

When we see people are falling victim to drug addiction, we just can’t sit and watch their agony. Society is not just a mutual cohabitation, it also demands one person to be active and help others. So, drug addicts need help from other people. But naïve ones lacking idea on removing drug addiction couldn’t help them, even if they want to.

That’s where drug addiction rehab centers are to play their role. Those centers have drug rehab experts working with them. They also have requisite infrastructure to reduce the degree of addiction. Procedures that follow in the name of drug rehabilitation are mainly detoxification therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, counseling and advice and medical treatment. If all those procedures are properly followed, drug addicts could be brought back to normal life.

Physical healing is a major issue in drug rehab program. Some people are so addicted that they can’t stop taking drug even for one day. If they do so, their bodies will start having problems; spasms, seizure, fever, nausea, cramps and muscle pain are some of the physical symptoms of withdrawal and to set aside such problems, detoxification and medical treatment are either merged or one is applied parallel to the other. The purpose here is to lessen physical problems, caused inevitably due to the course of detoxification.

Of course there are some other considerations such as how strong is the drug, for how many years the taker has been into it, whether it’s legal or illegal etc, but said therapeutic procedures are used more or less, if it’s a case of substance abuse or drug addiction.

Any treatment, which involves use of medically approved drug, has a problem; they can’t be run for indefinite period of time. Treatment of substance abuse therefore, can’t solely base itself on applying medicine.

There comes the importance of psychoanalytic counseling. There are a number of PAWS (post acute withdrawal syndrome) symptoms, which are to do with mental health. Such symptoms are phobia, not being able to organize thoughts properly, severe depression etc. A comprehensive psychoanalytic therapy helps one to recover himself/herself from these mental disorders. But the crux is that psychoanalytic treatments can be best applied in a drug addiction rehab center. There are more than one addict, who come to these centers for getting treated. That’s why, it’s easy to build up a community like environment between these inpatients.

Once such an environment is built up, inpatients would become more communicative and they’d appear to be more responsive to the therapist.

The bottomline is; physical and mental healing are both required for drug addiction treatment and drug addiction rehab centers can offer that.

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Question by Michael Brian: What addictions does the APA recognize as actual addiction disorders?
I know technically anything can be an “addiction” but I’m trying to find a list that the APA has put out that lists the actual addictions someone can be diagnosed with.

Best answer:

Answer by Peachy Perfect
Depends on what you count as an addiction. The DSM-IV (current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) doesn’t have a definition for the word “addiction” and doesn’t use it.

As far as what *you* might classify as an “addiction”, you can be diagnosed with either Substance Abuse or Substance Dependence, depending on the severity of the addiction. This involves either the dependence on or abuse of substances, like alcohol, heroin, caffeine –yes, I said caffeine–, cocaine, nicotine, etc.

As far as other “addictions” to non-substances go, the ones found under the “Impulse Control Disorders” category include:
– Pathological Gambling (people addicted to gambling)
– Kleptomania (people addicted to stealing)
– Pyromania (people addicted to setting fires)
– Trichotillomania (people addicted to pulling their hair out — yes, I’m serious)

There are lots of other disorders, including but definitely not limited to pedophilia and hypochondriasis, which you might consider addictions (pedophilia being when you are “addicted” to sexual endeavors with children, hypochondriasis being when you are “addicted” to being sick), but I don’t really count those under the “addictions” category, personally.

However, in the DSM-5, which is set to come out in May 2013, they are going to add a ton more disorders involving addictions under the category “Substance Use and Addictive Disorders”. But mostly the only change that will be made is specifying the type of substance that one is abusing, dependent on, and/or suffering withdrawals from. For example, instead of being diagnosed with plain “Substance Abuse” with alcohol listed as a side note, an alcoholic would be diagnosed with “Alcohol Use Disorder”, “Alcohol Intoxication”, and/or “Alcohol Withdrawal”.

Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

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Many drug addiction treatment centers focus on only the addiction itself. At 12 Palms Recovery Center, treatment plans include dealing with emotional and mental disorders that accompany the actual addiction as well.

According to reports published by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), approximately 50 percent of patients addicted to drugs also suffer from some form of emotional or mental disorder. While a rehab in Vermont can help to treat the addiction, oftentimes they are not equipped to also treat the emotional or mental disorder. Focusing on the addiction does not mean that the mental disorder goes away.

At 12 Palms Recovery Center in Jensen Beach, Florida, dual diagnosis patients can and do receive treatment for both their addiction and their emotional or mental disorder. Therapists at 12 Palms Recovery Center are recovering addicts themselves who are also qualified to deal with patients suffering from both addiction and mental disorders. By separating drug and alcohol abuse from emotional and mental issues such as bi-polar disorder, depression, anxiety or PTSD, the qualified therapists and counselors can then determine the underlying factors apart from the addiction itself.

A rehab in Vermont can certainly diagnosis a patient with emotional or mental disorders, but oftentimes outpatient treatment for that disorder will be required. At 12 Palms Recovery Center, any patient with a dual diagnosis can work on their emotional or mental health issues along with their addiction in house—through one on one counseling, group therapy sessions and other time-tested methods of treatment and possibly medication, each patient suffering from dual diagnosis gets their own unique treatment plan developed specifically for their needs.

Many years ago, it was commonplace to lock up an alcoholic or addict in a sanitarium, only to leave them there to live out the rest of their lives in relative obscurity. Alcoholism and addiction back then was considered to be a problem of the mind, much like mental disorders. However now, addiction is treated with a time-tested plan of action, and emotional or mental disorders are diagnosed separately and treated along with the addiction. A rehab in Vermont can treat the addiction, but at 12 Palms Recovery Center, not only are both the addiction and separate disorders treated, each patient who has a dual diagnosis is given a specific plan of action to follow to continue treating both.

12 Palms Recovery Center is designed to be an all-inclusive treatment center, where each patient with a dual diagnosis receives a specific treatment plan that treats their specific needs. By working with qualified counselors and therapists, patients can finally be understood and supported with a specific plan of recovery.

Drug addiction treatment programs oftentimes focuses on just the addiction. At 12 Palms Recovery Center, an all-inclusive treatment plan that also treats emotional and mental disorders is available for dual diagnosis patients.  For more information on the services offered by 12 Palms Recovery Center, please call 1(866) 331-6779.
 

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