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Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center Treatment programs Canada Drug
Added: (Thu Feb 07 2008)
Drug rehabilitation or Alcohol Rehabilitation is an overall categorization that refers to all the processes that work towards the goal of assisting patients to quit or reduce substance abuse caused by extreme addiction to psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, or street drugs like amphetamines, cocaine or heroin. Fundamentally it involves all the medical and psychotherapeutic treatments required to enable the patients to recover from the consequences of extreme abuse. The consequences faced by the patients generally destroy their social and individual life in terms of their psychological, legal, financial and physical status. In short, drug or Alcohol rehabilitation straightway confronts the physical as well as the psychological dependency of the patient on extreme use of drugs. A detoxification process is applied on the patient in case of reducing physical dependency to fight with the withdrawal symptoms related to regular use of drugs.
Regular use of drugs increases the tolerance level of the body and brain and makes it adapt in such a way that even high doses do not generate the desired results. Withdrawal symptoms are noticed in patients whenever the use of drugs is abruptly stopped. In the long run Rehab Treatment programs enable patients to abstain from drug abuse permanently.
Alcoholism and drug addiction are still believed to be diseases, but science has proved time and again that it is not. In fact, alcoholism and drug abuse are a matter of choice to the individual. The treatment in each case should vary from individual to individual depending on his personal need and acuteness of his addiction. The involvement of the patient’s family and friends will also go a long way in helping the patient recover sooner.
Drug Rehabilitation Center and Alcohol Rehab Center are institutions that take care of the patients in order to curb their habit and also to resettle them in the wider spectrum of normal society.
One such Rehabilitation Center operational in Canada and Montreal, Quebec is Addington House. They are well known for their rehab process and have specialized in alcohol and drug rehabilitation. Established in 1990, the Center gained excellent reputation in rehabilitating a large number of alcoholics and drug addicts. The intervention process is done three months in-house and thereafter a follow up is carried out for two years. Addington believes in a holistic treatment and phase out the detoxification course into three parts. The first is a non-medical detoxify done before moving to the second phase of rehabilitation. Finally, the patients are taken through group therapy sessions, art therapy and individual counseling to secure long-term results.