Treatment Of Treatment For Addiction

Statistical records don't lie when they present the number of people who abuse illicit substances. Some of them start in their teen years and become hooked on their chosen substances in the long run. The problem is that doing away with substance dependence can be challenging as the person experiences withdrawal symptoms as he tries to quit. This makes the whole process more difficult for them.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that there are about 100,000 of deaths per year and there are approximately 8 million people in the United States who have a substance abuse problem (CDC, 2015). A better understanding and greater attention to the commonly abused substance and its treatment would be beneficial in a provider's practice and will also protect the provider from the legalities of prescribing these medications. There are several forms of treatment for every abused substance and the main goal is to help the patient to stop the stop and helping them during the phase of withdrawal. The intent of this paper is to discuss the commonly used substance for abuse and its treatment with the implications

Addiction treatment is a complex and paradoxical issue. Despite the fact that most of the medical and academic institutions define addiction as a chronic brain disease, it is too often treated on an acute basis. Chronic conditions are defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as requiring ongoing management over a period of years or decades and cover a wide range of health problems. The goals of chronic care are not to cure, but to enhance functional status, minimize distressing symptoms, prolong life through secondary prevention and enhance quality of life.

One should proceed carefully before assuming people dealing with an addiction are aware they have treatment options. The reality is many addiction sufferers are caught in a world of their own. It's an ugly world filled with sadness. depression, anxiety and confusion. The notion their problems can be resolved through addiction treatment is something they might not be able to comprehend.

In the field of substance abuse treatment the needs of the LGBT addict is seriously lacking. Specifically, there is a significant void in knowledge about the special needs of the transgender population that is suffering from substance abuse. Primarily, substance abuse treatment works in the gender binary, as well as, traditional knowledge of what substance abuse looks like. It does not take into consideration substance abuse among transgender does not only include the typical opiates, barbiturates, amphetamines and such. Many times also transgender addict is also uses hormones and silicone materials that are purchased off the street. While wanting to focus on just the disease of addiction with the clientele most providers lack the knowledge

Interracial relationships/marriages have increased substantially in America over the past few years. While black families tend to be more accepting of the interracial relationships and white partner, white families are more reluctant to accept the mix of white and black races. In 2010, there were a total of 390,000 couples that consisted of a black husband and white wife. One large reason why people tend to not agree with interracial relationships is because of the mental abuse and bullying towards biracial children. However, the majority of people who ever speak their opinions on mixed children are ones from the older generation. This is alarming to me due to my future children being biracial.

This may be due to the long history of alcohol consumption engrained within the culture. Although alcohol is readily available and easy to obtain, prescription medications for injuries and mental disorders are also potential avenues towards addiction. A survey conducted by Jeffery, Babeu, Nelson, Kloc and Klette (2013) aimed to identify the factor associated with prescription drug misuse. Due to the potential retribution associated with admitting substance abuse while actively serving in the military, experimenters developed a non-attributable in order to garner honest feedback.

When you go to rehab for addiction, you make the thing at the forefront of your thoughts: improving. Rehab, as it were, is a narrow-minded thing. Keeping in mind the end goal to prevail at getting sober, you need to concentrate on you. When you leave rehab, you have another life to live, as well as a major chaos to confront. A standout amongst the most imperative wrecks to tidy up after rehab is the relationship mess. You most likely wrecked a wide range of relationships with individuals from your folks to your parents, your companions, and even your

When the goal of addiction treatment is to provide a behavioral change, it is beneficial to challenge the thought process of the individual. Clarifying thoughts can be substantial in the therapeutic process. Essentially, partaking in this activity can increase the chances of relapse prevention, and increase the likeliness of recovery. I visited the Phoenix house on a Sunday evening for an AA meeting. The set up was in a small room that had chairs shaped in a circular formation. I quickly spotted out who seemed to be the leader of the group. He was quite understanding, yet abrasive. He told me that I was able to sit in, and it might be better for me to sit closer to him. For some odd reason, I was anxious and a little nervous to be there. Not necessarily scared of the situation, but I didn’t know what others would think of me. It was that moment when I realized that others around me share this same feeling.

Famous celebrity Lindsay Lohan was admitted to Malibu’s Promises Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Facility in the summer of 2007. When people hear about celebrities and their admittance to alcohol treatment facilities, people often wonder how the celebrity ended up in this position. Well in Lindsay Lohan’s case, her father was incarcerated for driving under the influence of alcohol. With this knowledge, it is easy to see how Lindsay would follow in the alcoholic footsteps of her father. To further demonstrate this inference, Lindsay wrote a song to her father, “Confessions of a Broken Heart”. This song addresses the troubled relationship she had with her father (Lindsay, 2007, pg.1). After the given examples, it is easy to see how an unstable home life could lead to alcoholism.

Despite advances in pharmacotherapies over the last few decades, behavioral treatments remain an important component, and often the only evidenced-based component, for the treatment of various substance use disorders. Among those with the strongest level of empirical support from randomized clinical trials are 1) contingency management, where abstinence or other targeted outcomes are reinforced with incentives (Higgins et al., 1991; Petry, 2006), 2) cognitive behavioral therapy, which teaches specific strategies and skills to reduce substance use (Carroll et al., 1994), and 3) motivational interviewing, where a specific, nonjudgmental interviewing style is used to enhance motivation and harness the patient’s capacity for change (Hettema et al., 2005; Miller, 1985). However, despite the established efficacy of behavioral treatments for substance use disorders, their widespread efficacy is hampered by the considerable cost and resources needed for successful implementation. Thus, more efficient ways to implement behavioral treatments are needed and in an effort to do so, it is important to better understand how and when the treatments work. This information can then be used to maximize the effects and develop a more targeted approach.

The term addiction holds many different meanings in today’s society, but in the past it has been referred to as a sort of devotion to something. Over time, a more modern definition of the term has developed that links addiction to harmful involvement with drugs that eventually has potential of produce withdrawal or tolerance in an individual (Alexander & Schweighofer, 1988). Although the word addiction holds a more general meaning in a modern context it pertains to any kind of compulsive use. Current psychological authorities refer to drug addictions as substance abuse rather than simply an addiction for many reasons; the two conditions can be differentiated by the specificity of the substance being

It commonly believed that over time, the effects of drug related cues increases the efficacy of relapse. To this end, the researchers are looking to key brain chemicals to aid in the therapeutic treatment of drug addiction. A main concern is how can drug-related cues be counteracted or reduced in patients prone to relapse. In one study, investigators found that “drug use and relapse involves learned associations between drug-associated discrete and contextual cues and drug taking…” (Bossert, Marchant, Calu, & Shaham, 2013). This is further corroborated by data suggesting with repeated drug use, an attentional bias occurs (Jasinska, Stein, Kaiser, Naumer, & Yalachkov, 2014). As a result, drug cues take over perceptual, cognitive and memory processes. This produces a priming effect, essentially putting the addict in a state of “drug-seeking” readiness. We predict that when presented with certain contextual cues associated with drug use, they will trigger a drug-seeking response in drug addicted individuals when compared to the control. We also theorize that time of day will have an effect on the intensity of the drug-seeking response.

I have always been very fascinated in finding out exactly what goes on in treatment facilitates for drug addicts. Visiting Samaritan village was defiantly a great and positive experience. I was able to get some great insights from my interviewee (Christina) who is a substance abuse counselor .I knew Christina for a few months because my church constantly visits the rehabilitation center to offer words of encouragements to the patients so I quickly became acquainted with her.

The question of why a person should seek professional help when attempting to quit using drugs or alcohol is easily answered. Abstaining from the use of any chemical substance, “giving up drugs,” is only the beginning of a long, difficult process which, to be successful, entails much more than simply ending use. The addiction treatment centers in Colchester, Vermont have specifically designed their rehabilitation programs to focus on the entre scope of damage that chemical abuse and addiction has created in terms of the person as a whole. There are physical aspects of addiction which are, of course, readily detectable, but it is the