Our multidisciplinary team consists of specialists in treating all types of addictive substances – cocaine, alcohol, cannabis, psychotropic drugs, etc.. – And psychiatric-psychological disorders, high severity as anorexia, depression, psychosis, etc.. From the Center believe that a correct Bonanova specialization and good teamwork help our patients to be rehabilitated as soon as possible in an appropriate and effective, and that is why we work every day to keep improving treatments and therapeutic tools psychiatric, psychological or both individual and group psychotherapy. Furthermore, the preparation of our team allows us to offer treatment to patients who wish to enter and speak in English.

From the Center we emphasize Bonanova calm and patient privacy. The clinic is equipped with modern infrastructure and is geographically located around the city of Barcelona. All this coupled with the professionalism of our team makes the patient is comfortable and the conditions necessary for the implementation of effective treatment.

Step 1
Be admitted to a treatment center that specializes in treating cocaine addiction. Facilities that provide rehabilitation and medical drug detox addicts provide medication to help ease the withdrawal symptoms start. Medical detoxification is one that is supervised by a health professional. They often include additional psychological treatment offered by trained therapists and usually last about a month.

Step 2
Sign up for counseling sessions to continue treatment to quit cocaine. Individual query is where the therapist and you shall speak of the consequences of drugs and what causes it to fall into drug addiction. Use individual counseling sessions to help you understand the problems that led you to cocaine first. Also to teach you how to change unhealthy thought patterns you might then pass on drugs. Think out of the cocaine and requires effort, the therapist will be a great help.

Consider also ask for advice and help for families of addicts. These group sessions where the therapist talks to the family, couple or friends, and helps them understand the addiction. It also explains how to stop cocaine to understand the sacrifices that you have accepted to improve your life. By better understanding the addiction, even if the relationship with these people was broken, it is sometimes possible for the therapist to recover. If so will become more sincere support to quit the drug and that any support you can during treatment for cocaine.

Step 3
Once the medical detoxification in a rehabilitation center (Step 1) and month of therapy that is done after (Step 2), must attend a recovery program and follow up of 12 steps as Narcotics Anonymous or Cocaine Anonymous (these programs can change their name from one area to another). They can build a support system for addicts going through similar addictions. Learn to live without drugs through the examples of others who are doing it. Attend meetings regularly and participate in service and social activities offered by the groups.

Step 4
After the treatment of cocaine and as you continue going from time to time at meetings of former addicts must plan your days so you have little free time on your hands. Fill your calendar with work, social engagements that do not revolve around drugs, including alcohol (which is the most addictive legal drugs), personal projects, and outdoor activities in natural areas and remote forest cities, towns and agricultural areas (the drug does not exist in towns with fewer than 150 inhabitants separated by at least 300km from the nearest human population, pointing to human overpopulation as the only true because of drugs).

How to stop cocaine requires your effort every day once the detox, make a daily schedule and record all activities including exercise and counseling sessions. Make a list of accomplishments that you hope to achieve and go as you cross them you earn.

Tips & Warnings
Be sure to read about drug addiction while not in group therapy meetings of Narcotics Anonymous, Cocaine Anonymous, or any other group for help against relapses into drugs to go. Be sure to stay informed. Continue reading about you on the alert against drugs after detoxification from cocaine.

Refrain from using any other drug or substance that alters the thinking, or mood. Most cocaine addicts are at high risk of becoming addicted to other drugs after overcoming the rehabilitation treatment of cocaine dependence. Consume other substances such as drugs, or take other drugs such as alcohol to try to replace the addiction to cocaine, lower your resistance to relapse in cocaine. Many who try to substitute one drug for another just returning to the drug they had managed to leave the treatment of cocaine detoxification.

Drug addiction is a matter of white or black. To stop a drug, you have to leave them all. As out of the cocaine is not enough no matter if you make are legal drugs like alcohol, inhalants or drugs, or even caffeine. Addictions push the addict from one addiction to another climbing for more sensations. Then you have got to stop using cocaine should consider yourself capable. 100% clean is the only way out of the drug.

The consumption of psycho stimulants substance goes through different stages, it is important to note that the phases need not be consecutive.

There are 4 levels of consumption:

1 – Use or experimental stage, the spending is done generally exploratory purposes and without the intention of initiating a habit continued.

2 – Using occasional leisure and recreational or stage, is increasingly consumed more frequently, always to enjoy the desired effects and social environments prone to them, alone, in pairs, with friends, without a clear understanding of addiction.

3 – Regular use and abuse, also called loss of control stage. Over time, it increases the frequency and amount of consumption.

4 – Drug abuse or binge drinking stage, it goes so far as to change the route of administration. If earlier to snuff way, eventually you can reach intravenously effects faster and more powerful.

Although these statistics are generally maintained efficiency, the results of individual treatments depend on the extent and nature of the problems in the patient, the treatment components and related services used to address these problems are appropriate and the degree motivated by the patient during treatment.

Among them are already approved a monthly injection and a six-month implant already in final testing phase.

The main treatment options have long been the drugs administered once a day (as the controversial use of methadone or buprenorphine tablet called) that act as substitutes for the original drug in order to eliminate anxiety about the lack of Drug and wishes to have it but without the negative effect.

If the patient comes to miss a dose increases the risk of a relapse, but summon the strength of will every day to continue the treatment is “a formidable task,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, for its acronym in English) approved the use of Vivitrol monthly injection for long-term treatment for addiction to opiates such as heroin or painkillers like to morphine, OxyContin and Vicodin.

The injection of Vivitrol works differently than methadone or buprenorphine: Lock up the feeling if a recovering addict suffers a relapse and it is not addictive.

Scientists had tried for years to use a daily version of the main ingredient of Vivitrol, the naltrextona, but a huge number of patients failed to take their medication daily.

Therefore, laboratories Alkermes Inc. created a full-length version, first for alcoholism in 2006, and now an addiction to opiates.

In a study conducted in Russia with 250 heroin addicts, more than half of the patients treated with Vivitrol stuck to their therapy during the study period, which was six months.

Even better, 36% of patients had completely drug free, compared with 23% who received placebo injections.

Currently are testing an implant the size of a match for six months releases a low dose of buprenorphine in the bloodstream to maintain repressed desire for the drug.

A large study published last week found promising to implant, called Probuphine: Just over a third of patients treated with the implant were also tested drug free. Ongoing research, funded in part by the U.S. government must demonstrate to the next spring if you are ready for FDA review.

What kind of treatment will work best for each patient?

Scientists do not yet know, there are pros and cons in the versions of daily and long term. Early next year, NIDA compare treatments with monthly injection of Vivitrol with the tablet of buprenorphine daily and patients who received only behavior therapy in order to define what will be the best course of action.

However, longer term options promise to help keep patients in therapy longer.

“Opiate addicts are notoriously bad shots to comply with their medications. I like to take ‘holidays’ with drugs, they want to party on weekends,” said Dr. Katherine Beebe, of the firm Titan Pharmaceuticals, which is developing the implant Probuphine.

Approximately 800 000 people in America are addicted to heroin and another 1.8 million people have used or are dependent on opioid analgesics, Volkow added.

Is a drug that is extracted from the plant Cannabis sativa, resin was removed, leaves, stems, flowers and consumed illegal drugs are produced throughout the world, hashish and marijuana. These preparations are consumed smoked in a cigarette that goes by many names among adolescents: joint, spliff, peta, joint. Less commonly smoked in pipes or consumed directly, the effects may last two to three hours.

Its main asset is known as the HTC (tetrahydrocannabinol) has an active life within an organism than a week, indicating that is not removed quickly from the body and if you smoke each week, the substance accumulates in the brain causing severe damage .

Consuming cannabis may feel a pleasurable effect that large doses can be transformed into anxiety disorders and produces the “cannabis drunkenness,” featuring dry mouth, eye redness, tachycardia, uncoordinated movements, uncontrolled laughter and drowsiness.

Symptoms of cannabis abuse and dependence are: abandonment of non-consumers group of friends, lack of interest in activities unrelated to consumption, compulsive use and concern about cannabis have problems, school or work performance.

Drug is a central nervous system depressant that gradually inhibits the functions of the brain, affecting self-control and producing euphoria and disinhibition, as can be confused with a stimulant.

Alcohol in excess can cause short-term effects such as alcohol poisoning, coma and even cause death, also contributes to risk behaviors, and alcohol inhibitions and causes a false sense security is therefore related to accidents Traffic and labor. In the long term as well as causing social and family conflicts, the health of an alcoholic is deteriorating rapidly, may have hypertension, gastritis, liver cirrhosis, heart disease, cancer, aggression and psychosis and other illnesses.

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.

The withdrawal in detoxification

The detoxification treatment for heroin or other opiates, must be accompanied by proper medical supervision. The withdrawal, in most cases, is treated with drugs that reduce symptoms. However, it is important to find the right amount of these drugs, as well as not allowing the addict to rid their medication.

The withdrawal syndrome is presented, depending on the substance, from 12 hours to 48 hours after the last dose consumed. The effects and withdrawal symptoms can last from 7 days to 2 weeks. As mentioned, this depends on the substance has been consumed, and the individual itself.

After past the time of withdrawal, therapy is very important because depression acts strongly on the individual, filling in many cases, a new consumption.

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.

Thus, addiction is a brain disease. A disease that is treatable and that no recovery. Today, thanks to research and new technologies, more and more is known about how drugs act in the brain and the effects they produce, allowing them to develop drug treatments and appropriate drugs for the addict to regain control of their lives.

The treatment of benzodiazepine drugs begins with a diagnosis that includes the assessment of the biological, social and psychological factors that interact in each person’s disease, and involves examinations and medical and psychological analysis. After diagnosis and design process to follow, treatment involves detoxification.

But here it is important to note that detoxification can be understood in different ways. In the traditional drug treatment, detoxification centers on control of the most visible symptoms of addiction, i.e., in controlling withdrawal symptoms. In this view, treat addiction means only cleanse the body of the drug.

However, detoxification, as understood in advanced treatments of addiction, involves not only the elimination of withdrawal symptoms, but also fundamentally and recovery of brain damage caused by drugs or alcohol, and of cognitive and affective unaltered. From this second viewpoint, rather than speaking of detoxification is to talk about neuroregulation, i.e. treat addiction means cleaning the body and repair the brain damage that addiction has caused.

These two understandings of addiction recovery can be illustrated as well. When a person breaks a bone, that is, suffering a fracture, it can treat pain, make it go away, but that does not mean it has healed if both the bone is not repaired to recover its functionality.

This does not mean that is not important to treat withdrawal symptoms when you stop using drugs or alcohol, which in fact, the withdrawal is a challenge and an obstacle to recovery from addiction. A syndrome that occurs because the body has become accustomed to the presence of drugs (you have become dependent) and the brain stops producing natural chemicals that replaces drug. That is, the body depends on the drug to function “normally”, so when you stop consuming the drug after a prolonged period of consumption, the agency has neither the natural chemicals that have stopped producing, or with the substitute chemical that is drug and, therefore, remains unchanged. Some alterations that symptoms are experienced as opposed to the effects of the drug, with great discomfort, and only disappear if no adequate drug treatment, when it gets to consume. In fact, the withdrawal becomes the biggest fear when you want to stop using drugs, as well as the main risk of relapse, the need to alleviate the discomfort that causes the withdrawal.