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Inpatient Treatment Drug Addiction for All

Monday, May 10th, 2010

Inpatient Treatment Drug Addiction for All - The most comprehensive of all drug addiction rehabilitation programs for inpatient care. Inpatient rehabilitation addiction drug addicts need to stay in the facility where they receive their treatment, and the amount of time they stay will depend on how hard they work on their addiction and learn to deal with patterns of healthy behavior.

Inpatient rehabilitation of drug addicts first will include detoxification, with or without the use of sedatives and pain medication; their inclusion will depend both on whether the system of addicts who can handle chemicals and whether they believe the program will run “cold turkey” when the withdrawal is the best substance abuse prevention for the future.

Once detoxification is completed, the addicts will spend their days learning to take responsibility with a job assigned to them; will be individual and group counseling sessions, and get at the underlying emotional causes of their dependency. This process can last for one month for a year, depending on the severity of addiction. Inpatient rehabilitation of drug addiction is a last resort.

Therapeutic technique in the inpatient facility may include journaling so that addicts can learn both self-observation skills and how to recognize situations where their desire for drugs is triggered.

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Detoxification and cessation of heroin

Monday, March 29th, 2010

withdrawalWhen addiction or dependence occur before a drug or synthetic chemical characteristics, the stage of detoxification has strong barriers that impede the process. The forms of interruption or detoxification of heroin, morphine, codeine or methadone, all opium-derived substances may be using the full stop drug consumption, or through a process of decreasing the dose gradually until achieve the cessation of use.

The main obstacle, in which most consumers can not stop the drug, or by which many consumers culminate by becoming addicted, the withdrawal syndrome. Any addictive substance, occurs when consumption is stopped, withdrawal.

As withdrawal is known to all the symptoms and effects produced by the body accustomed to a substance, when consumption slows it. These symptoms are the leading consumers to the need to eat again, a matter of avoiding them. (more…)

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Information on rehabilitation clinics in Mexico

Monday, March 15th, 2010

* Dr. Caballero. Valeriano Trujano 702-b Altos, Centro Oaxaca Oaxaca, Oaxaca 68000. Phone: 951.516-0193.

* Podelatica. Gustavo P Mahr No. 1806, Federal Maestro. Puebla, Puebla 72,080. Tel: 222.246-3906, 222.242-3202

* Being London Clinic 3551, Playas De Tijuana Secc Riviera. Tijuana, Baja California 22,506. Tel: 664.630-9923, 664.630-9924

* Mobile medical Leon. Hnos Boulevard Aldama No. 801 No. Pb, St. Nicholas. Leon, Guanajuato 37,480. Tel: 477.715-2179.

* 24 HOUR MOVEMENT AA AA. Matamoros 1002 Pte Esq not with Americas, Mty. N.L. Mexico – Tamaulipas, Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Phone: (52) (88) 83449821

* FIELD REVIVAL – ADDICTIONS. Monterrey. Mexico – Nuevo León, Monterrey. Phone (s): (52) (81) 36249901 CAPPA

* A.C. – CENTER SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE WITH ADDICTION PROBLEMS. Manzano No. 130 Col. Lomas del Camichin, CP 45,417 Tonala, Jal. Mexico – Jalisco, Guadalajara. Phone: (52) (33) 36811321

* INTEGRATION CENTER FOR DRUG ADDICTS AND ALCOHOLICS AC. Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico – Jalisco, Guadalajara. Phone: (52) (33) 36063301 (more…)

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Neuronal Recovery in Drug Treatment Benzodiazepines

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

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. (more…)

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