Neuronal Recovery in Drug Treatment Benzodiazepines
But beyond detoxification or withdrawal of the drug in the body, is necessary to recover the brain areas that were damaged by addiction, i.e, it is necessary to have a neuronal recovery. The “traditional” methods drug treatment only serve to cleanse (detoxify) the body controlling the symptoms of withdrawal, but not restore these brain areas in which the drug has caused neurochemical changes, with the additional risk that this type of detoxification can mask symptoms of brain damage.
This neuronal recovery is done today by means of an advanced pharmacological intervention conducted by professionals from medicine, psychology and nursing and continuous monitoring of the patient in a hospital setting. Through a process of neuro-adaptation, we act on brain receptors, and in systems and structures as the route that connects the midbrain ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens, basal ganglia, structures that are also associated with withdrawal, by that, by intervening in the recovery of these areas, it prevents the emergence of withdrawal symptoms. So on the one hand, the recovery of brain structures allows the elimination of withdrawal symptoms and allows the craving disappears, the irrepressible desire to use drugs. On the other hand, this intervention, to restore brain functions affected by the drug, makes you restore advanced processes of cognition and emotion, as the attention span, ability to read, consciousness or serenity.
Under these conditions, the drug treatment has several immediate goals: provide a safe withdrawal under medical supervision and psychological addiction to drugs or alcohol withdrawal permits no withdrawal symptoms, ie, without suffering the patient recovered in the process cognitive and affective that had been altered, and allows the patient has a good disposition, not having gone through a treatment with the discomfort of withdrawal, to take control of a life free of addictions.