Posts Tagged ‘drug rehab’

Choosing a Drug/Alcohol Facility: Location Location Location!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

In choosing a facility for yourself or a loved one,  a very important factor to consider is the location of the facility.

Should it be close to home?  Certain advantages seem desirable.  A quick drive and no delay.  However,  consider also that if it is that easy to “arrive”  into a facility,  it is equally easy to “exit”  prematurely.

In any rehab program,   our experience has shown time and time again that a person entering rehab does so in a condition of fear, anxiety,  or even resentment in some cases.  Until the person becomes somewhat familiarized and gets a chance to settle in to the new structure and routines there is always a high degree of discomfort for the individual.

In the first few weeks,  this discomfort usually rears it’s head -sometimes quite dramatically - and the person hits a point where the idea of stopping their drug or alcohol use is too daunting.  It seems an impossible task to surmount and so they decide (or the addiction decides)  it is time to get out of there and go back to the same ‘ol same ‘ol.

If at this critical juncture the exit is a simple taxi ride home,  or worse yet,  a family member being called to come rescue them (which happens more often than one might suspect)  then this will sabotage any chance the person has for a complete recovery.  The old pattern of someone being used as a facilitator or enabler comes back into play,  and the addiction wins again.  The family loses.  The addict loses.   The facility even loses,  as the staff there are quite sincere about really wanting to help the person recover fully.  This would be a lose-lose-lose proposition.

So for this reason alone,  choosing a drug rehab or alcohol rehab that is at least a plane ride away is by and large the best guarantee a person has to complete their program.   Keep the phone calls to a minimum during the first few weeks,  and do not in any case act as an enabler and sabotage the person’s chance for recovery by rescuing them out of rehab.

For more helpful advice about choosing a facility for drug or alcohol rehab,  contact us at drugrehabreferralservices.org and our helpful staff will take time to help you work out the most appropriate treatment plan.

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Bio Physical Drug Rehab

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

The Bio Physical Drug Rehab is widely known to be the most effective rehab method. It addresses the physical addiction in depth, as well as dealing with the mental and emotional issues the individual faces.

In a bio physical program a person is withdrawn off the drugs and/or alcohol that he is using. Once this is done and he is physically stable he enters the full drug detox step of the program in which his entire system is cleansed of drugs and toxins.

The program base is that when one takes a drug, alcohol or other toxic substance the body immediately starts eliminating it. When there is too much to eliminate the body stashes the excess in areas that have low circulation, such as fatty tissue. Slowly the body will release small amounts so it can take years to get these substances out of the body,

This slow release is a hidden trigger for relapse.

The full drug detox employed by bio physical rehab programs uses good nutrition, with vitamin and mineral supplements, moderate exercise, a regular schedule of good meals and sleep and time spent in a sauna using the body’s largest organ, the skin to sweat toxins out.

When this step is complete you feel very healthy physically and very clear minded - all the cobwebs and fuzziness are gone. You are ready to deal with all the mental and emotional aspects of successful rehab.

If you are looking for lasting results this is the way to go and we can help you find this rehab in Canada, the USA or other parts of the world.

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The Mental Health of An Addict

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

This is a controversial topic. Generally speaking mental health is controversial and so is drug addiction.
So with that in mind, here is something to look at.

How concerned about the mental health issues of an addict should you be? Are there really mental health issues? If so what should be done about it?

Often an addict looks crazy or does crazy things when you are just looking at their life style and behavior. The kinds of actions they engage in, the personality changes they go through. Does that mean there is mental illness that should be dealt with?

Or are things like depression, anxiety attacks, manic episodes, paranoia, compulsive actions a part of addiction?

If they are a part of addiction shouldn’t a drug rehab program deal with the addiction in all its’ manifestations.

Well if you speak with ex-addicts who have gotten their lives back, are now functioning in society they will tell you they are part of their addiction. Yes, the drugs create a lot of bad effects some of these are what appears to be mental illness.

So should they get diagnosed with what ever symptoms they are displaying?

Simple answer is no, not while addicted. It results in an unfair diagnosis. If they successfully get off the drugs those symptoms go away - but a label of Bi-Polar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder does not go away. The real danger is that once diagnosed with a mental illness the treatment is a drug. The drugs prescribed are psychotropic substances with lots of effects and side effects. That is why benzos, anti ADHD medications and others have street value - you can get high and you can get hooked.

Treating symptoms is dangerous. Look for holistic drug rehab programs that know the symptoms of drug/alcohol addiction and get to the source of the many problems and bizarre behaviors it creates.

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Ten Top Reasons Not To Go To Rehab

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

1. It’s almost Thanksgiving.

2. It’s almost (your fav) Holiday Season.

3. My kids would miss me too much. It would be too traumatic for them.

4. I don’t think I need it. I’ve quit before on my own lots of times.

5. It’s too expensive.

6. I can’t be away from work that long.

7. It would be too embarrassing to have all my friends and family know I have this problem.

8. My buddy from work/friend/uncle/mom/dad or some guy I heard about went to rehab and it didn’t work so it probably won’t work for me either.

9. My spouse doesn’t want me to go because he/she thinks I’ll meet someone there and will end up leaving the marriage. Or, I don’t trust my spouse and I am afraid if I am not around he/she will meet someone and end up leaving the marriage.

10. I am just not ready to quit yet.

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Ten Top Reasons To Go To Rehab

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

1. You love and care about your spouse. You will lose our spouse eventually if you don’t handle your problem.

2. You love and care about your children. You will lose your kids and their respect eventually if you don’t handle your problem.

3. You love and care about yourself. You will lose your happiness and your life if you don’t handle your problem.

4. You love and care about your parents and want to quit hurting them.

5. You are nearly bankrupt from the money you have spent on your drugs and alcohol, legal bills, you owe everyone you know and it has to stop.

6. Your health is deteriorating - you have managed to stay alive but you don’t “feel alive”.

7. People don’t trust you.

8. You don’t trust you.

9. You feel like a phony and you want to stop lying to everyone but mostly you want to stop lying to yourself.

10. If you go to rehab now you have a great future to look forward to. If you don’t, you don’t.

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How Long Should Rehab Take?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Length of rehab is often a concern.
Most people know 28 to 30 days is not too likely to deal with an addiction, but they are worried about being away too long.
If you are a parent, spouse or a caring friend you usually have the idea that long term is needed. You want to make sure that they go long enough to truly deal with what ever they need to deal with.
Often the addict feels pressured to go for a shorter time and feels somehow inadequate if he needs to go to long term.
Well experience tells us there is no quick fix and that each person’s situation, resources and personal make up determine how they will use the time they have in rehab to actually get down to business and turn their life around.
So the best possible scenario would not be a set limit of time but a set result.
Next to that at least three to six months.
Shorter can work depending on the mind set and the effectiveness of that model of program meeting all needs of the individual.
These are all points to consider and talk over with who ever you are getting your advise from.

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What if the addict doesn’t want to go to rehab?

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

And If They Don’t Want Help?

What do you do when “He/she doesn’t want help”?

Do you stand by and watch drugs suck the life out of someone you love?

Do you wait til they hit rock bottom?

Do you force them? Can you force them?

Everyday families struggle with these kinds of questions when someone they care about is addicted. They often feel guilty personally wondering how did this happen, what did they do wrong. They are being manipulated by the addict to feel sorry for them, help them out, they are trying to change, etc. Often, the advice they are given is they have to wait until the addict wants treatment, that they will hit rock bottom, etc.

Well the trouble with the above is by the time they hit “rock bottom” or make a logical decision like “I should get help” it is because life has intervened. This intervention could be a loss of job, a spouse, a home, a legal problem, an overdose, an assault by another addict or dealer. These are all constant threats to the addict, whether they are aware of it or not.

The other thing that can happen is an intervention is done by those who are close to the addict and care about what happens to them. This is often family, but can include friends, co-workers, etc. All concerned come together, hopefully under the guidance of a Professional Interventionist, and review the situation, look for behaviors on their part that enable the addict to continue the drug use and not have to face the consequences of their addiction.

Examples of enabling behaviors are allowing the addict to live at home without paying rent, groceries, etc; covering up for them about missed work or school; helping to care for the addict’s family, protecting them from police such as not charging them when they are violent, bailing them out if they do end up getting themselves in jail, arranging and paying for legal help, accepting them back when they apologize and ask forgiveness, pretending it is just a phase, or just doing nothing. None of these actions are helpful to getting the addict help as they actually have it made under these circumstances. They are supported in their drug use.

While it may seem unkind to so treat someone you love it is really what needs to happen to allow the addict to become responsible for his/her addiction and become willing to accept help and make a change. You don’t have to stop loving anyone or give up on them. You have to learn the difference between enabling and helping.

A Professional Interventionist, with a high success rate of effectively changing the family’s behavior and getting the addict to treatment is recommended when they don’t want help and you can’t wait for them to decide to change. We can help you get an intervention and most drug rehab centers have interventionists they recommend.

Don’t wait and worry and enable and feel guilty. Do something effective, this is the help you need, so give a call.

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Healing Addicted Lives

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Understanding what addiction is, is essential for anyone who wants to help a person overcome his enslavement to a drug. How does it becomes an addiction? What are the barriers the addict faces? Is this a life time problem he will never overcome?

If you are losing someone you love to an addiction it is easy to feel lost not understanding what is going on. They are acting crazy, they are depressed, tell you lies, don’t want to talk to you. Why don’t they just stop? They tell you they need help and then they say they don’t want it, they have it under control. You are wondering where is the person I fell in love with and married, the child I raised,
the father I looked up to?

You want to help and this is good, it is the right thing to want to do. But how do you help?

The first thing you have to do is get yourself educated. You must understand addiction. You must understand that the person you love is still there but he’s difficult to see because mostly you only see the drug. You know drugs are deadly and people go to rehab for an addiction but until you actually have an addict on your hands that is the information most individuals have. It is not enough information to be able to effectively help that person who is addicted.

Once you feel you understand what an addiction is, how addiction comes about, and what are the barriers that must be overcome to resolve it you are ready to deal with whoever that person is you are going to help. Key to this is knowing what you want out of a rehab program. You can go on line and search for that kind of a program. You can go line and look for a referral service to help you find the kind of program you want. You can call some places and you can ask a lot of questions about the program, it’s philosophy, the ‘what ifs’, the success rate, how does one get into such a program, the cost, the wait list, etc. etc. etc.

If you are looking for a source of education as described above we would like to refer you to a book that you can read on line that answers all the above questions and many, many more.

http://www.healingaddictedlives.com

You will see the booklet and as you run your cursor over it the book opens. You can print it or read it off your computer.

Contact Drug Rehab Referral Services at 1 866 731 3729 or visit our Drug Rehab Referrals website

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The Dangers of Methadone

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

I have been taking a high number of calls recently from people wanting to stop taking methadone.

I know I read and see things on the news about a methadone clinic being a great help to cleaning up the drug community. They are praised as being helpful to the addict.

Well okay, however they are still drug addicts. Some of them sell their methadone so they can get the drugs they really want. Some of people are used by others to get the methadone for them.

It has a high street value and I have spoken with long term methadone addicts who only buy off the street, they have never been in a clinic.   Some likely live a more normal life as they might not have to be involved in criminal activity. However they are still addicts.

All this is is trading one addictive drug for another addictive drug. Do you know methadone is far more addictive and harder to get off than heroin?  Why do this?  Going to methadone for an opiate addiction can a long term commitment.

Do you know that methadone is the umber 2 Killer Drug in the United States?

For more information on methadone check out http://www.harmd.org.

One has to go to a medical detox to get weaned off the methadone once you know you are addicted.

Don’t get on methadone.  Get help to handle your addiction.  Contact us today for a successful drug rehab referral.

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Michael Jackson - Death, the FINAL INTERVENTION - Shocks World

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

The whole world is still reeling from the loss of an amazing performer who was on the verge of a major comeback tour.


Now the information is trickling in concerning the prescription drugs that Michael was addicted to,  and which conceivably contributed to his shocking demise.


Here is the list that was reported by a major news agency:

demerol - synthetic morphine

oxycontin - synthetic heroin

zoloft -  commonly known as an anti-depressant

xanax AND valium,  both benzodiazepines

dilaudid, vicoden - both heavy duty  opiates


All of these substances have highly addictive properties.  Not just in some cases, in ALL cases.    All must be prescribed by a licensed medical or psychiatric doctor. Which begs the question, ”Who was in a position to see the results of his addictions,  and why was no effective  intervention implemented to stop it?” Surely this must be the same common problem every day families face,  where a family member is observably struggling with addiction, and only an intervention, preferably using a professional trained in the field,  will stop the downward spiral and avert the inevitable death.  The nature of addiction itself precludes that the addicted person no longer has the ability to stop the addiction without help.  The humane, caring and courageous thing to do is to intervene, which unquestionably will temporarily disrupt job or income earning, or come-back tours, as it would have,  in the case of our now gone favorite pop star.  The careless and unkind thing is to let addiction continue it’s destructive pattern.

Sadly, one thing becomes crystal clear:  that  by default,   the final intervention will be death itself.  Let us help you with a successful drug rehab referral before it’s too late for your loved one.

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