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What Is Addiction Rehabilitation?

Rehab for drug addiction is intended to help people suffering from substance use disorder put an end to the uncontrollable urge to obtain and use drugs. The rehab procedure is not a “one size fits all.” Effective drug rehabilitation treatment addresses the patient's needs, and treatment plans must be evaluated and adjusted to suit evolving needs.

Do You Need Addiction Rehabilitation?

Participating in an addiction rehabilitation center is ideal for anyone struggling with substance use disorder. Addiction will make a person keep seeking and taking a drug or substance even though it’s detrimental to their health. As such, it is difficult for anyone to stop independently without professional rehab procedures.

Indications You Need Addiction Rehabilitation

  • Your top priority is using drugs
  • Both your physical and mental health is suffering
  • Your body has developed tolerance; you need to take large amounts to feel the effects
  • You have become dependent on the drug
  • Your drug use is affecting your life 

What Is the Addiction Rehabilitation Process?

The journey to sobriety takes time and effort. Going down this path can be very challenging, so well-structured rehab procedures are needed. There are four drug and alcohol recovery stages employed in addiction rehabilitation centers. These will be detailed below.

Treatment Beginning

This rehabilitation phase begins the minute people reach out for help at an addictions rehab center. It is normal to develop cold feet during the first few days of addiction rehab treatment. Going through this rehabilitation phase encourages patients to participate actively in treatment and stand firm in their decision of abstinence. A rehabilitation counselor employs different methods to achieve this.

Mental health providers work out the treatment program best suited for the individual at this stage.

Early Discipline and Abstinence

This stage might be the most difficult of all phases of the rehabilitation process. When a person becomes dependent on a particular substance, problems arise when they stop taking that substance—withdrawal symptoms. This, together with cravings, makes this stage challenging.

However, these difficulties are addressed in treatment by teaching patients about withdrawal effects, recognizing triggers, and developing coping mechanisms for cravings. When necessary, medical professionals will prescribe rehabilitation drugs like methadone.

Continuing Abstinence

After successfully abstaining from drugs for ninety days, patients graduate into the continuing abstinence stage. Alcohol and drug rehabilitation methods are employed in this stage to help patients maintain abstinence and avoid a relapse. People will discover the indicators and actions that can precede a relapse.

To remain on the path of sobriety, people will begin employing the tools they learned so far from their alcohol and drug rehab journey in daily life. In addition, they will learn new coping skills through rehabilitation therapy to deal with life stressors.

Advanced and Continued Recovery  

This is the final stage in the rehabilitation and recovery journey, achieved after abstaining for five years. All the drug rehabilitation methods, tools, and skills the patients learned during treatment will be put to use to live sober, healthy, and fulfilling lives.

Staying sober is just one aspect of recovery: knowing and learning how to lead a happy and healthier life, be a better partner, citizen, friend, neighbor, and version of yourself, implement the skills from treatment, and achieve everything above is what this stage is all about.

Types of Addiction Rehab

Depending on the individual's specific circumstances, addiction treatment programs frequently combine different approaches. Rehabilitation drugs might be necessary, and patients may require medical detoxification to help them get through withdrawal symptoms safely.

For treatment to be effective, medical professionals must regularly assess and adjust the plan to the individual's needs. There are two ways this constant assessment can be carried out. They include:

Inpatient

Inpatient rehabilitation, also known as residential treatment, refers to medical and therapy services obtained by staying in a supervised environment to overcome addiction. Patients receive twenty-four-seven medical and psychological care while housed in a hospital or residential facility. 

Inpatient rehabilitation can be very effective for people with more serious problems, including dual diagnoses (co-occurring disorders).

Outpatient

What to Expect From Addiction Rehabilitation

Interview

Detox

Detox is the next step, which involves the process of eliminating the substance of abuse from the body to prepare for a full recovery. In many cases, medical professionals will prescribe medications to help combat withdrawal symptoms. Research shows that medications are used in around 80% of all detoxes in rehabilitation facilities.2

Therapy/Activities

Different types of therapy are also employed during rehabilitation, based on the patient’s needs. A typical day in rehab may differ, but the organized portion of a day in an inpatient program typically starts between seven and eight in the morning and lasts until eight or nine at night. Within this time range are different therapy sessions and activities to help in the recovery process.

Is Rehabilitation Center Participation Helpful?

Addiction is a chronic disease, meaning it gets worse over time. The question people may wonder is, how does a person get addicted to a substance? It surely doesn’t happen overnight. This is why even after the detox rehabilitation process, people still need therapy to identify those thought patterns or triggers that caused the addiction in the first place.

To recover fully, participation in the recovery process is essential, especially in group therapy. It may be difficult to open up to strangers, but no one can understand a situation better than someone going through the same thing. In addition, participation takes away the loneliness or isolation that can occur during the recovery process. 

What Are the Benefits of a Rehabilitation Center?

Safe Environment

Structure

Stress Management

Exploring Triggers

Peer Support

How Long Does it Take to Recover From Addiction in a Rehabilitation Center?

Rehabilitation

What Are the Chances of Relapse After Rehab?

Addiction alters the brain by exposing it to chemicals it will continue to seek. This craving can be triggered by certain factors such as family issues or stress, which causes relapse.

The goal of rehab is to help people maintain a lifetime of sobriety by helping them learn coping mechanisms. Nevertheless, successfully maintaining newfound healing will take a lifetime of effort, and there are chances that relapse may occur. The relapse rate for people treated for addiction is around 40% to 60%.4

Relapse is common, meaning another approach may be needed to continue treatment or sustain recovery. Although it is possible to relapse and return to old behaviors, this does not mean everyone in recovery should anticipate doing so. Instead, they should continue with their treatment plan to prevent relapse.

Find Out More About Addiction Rehabilitation at Anew Treatment Center

At Anew Treatment Center, we offer inpatient and outpatient addiction rehabilitation programs to help you or your loved ones get all the care and support needed to live a healthy and drug-free life. We also offer vocational rehabilitation services to help people who are mentally or physically impaired return to work or find work, as the case may be.

Contact Anew Treatment Center today to learn more about our addiction rehabilitation services.

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