All about Drug Rehab

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All about Drug Rehab
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Substance abuse is a serious obsession that
destroys the physical, mental, and social
well-being of an individual. Families of affected
people are always on the lookout for an
appropriate drug rehabilitation center for the
most effective and specialized treatment.
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What Does Drug Rehab Involve?

• Effectively managing drug addiction means
• asking the right questions
• exhibiting empathy
• exhibiting patience and consideration, especially
  during the withdrawal phase
• helping addicts achieve and maintain sobriety
• offering a multicourse treatment regime
• including families and loved ones in the process

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Treatment Options at a Drug Rehabilitation Center
The most effective and long-term interventions
are behavioral therapies. These include
contingency-management cognitive-behavioral
approaches.
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Behavioral Modifications

• most widely used and most successful
• Incentives for Enhancing Drug Abuse Recovery
  (MIEDAR) - a technique based on offering
  incentives in return for abstinence

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Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies

• positively modify the thoughts and perceptions of
  individuals
• influence behavior, thinking and expectations
• help the patient deal effectively with stressful
  situations

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Pharmacological Treatment

• medicines to provide symptomatic relief
• anti-anxiety drugs (manage symptoms of stress,
  excitement or panic)
• anti-depressants
• anti-psychotic drugs (manage symptoms such as
  delusions and paranoia)

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Discussions

• support groups
• daily sessions with drug rehab experts where
  patients and their families share experiences and
  feelings
• helps develop strong bonds among patients,
  specialists and loved ones

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Long-term Care

• steps after medical detoxification (post-rehab)
• medically trained officials on-call to treat
  issues such as infections, etc
• monitoring of health status of individual after
  treatment

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Contact details
The Hills Treatment Center8207 Mulholland Drive
Los Angeles, California 90046Phone (800)
705-1909 Fax [phone]http//
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