Alcohol Addiction
Alcohol
addiction goes by the more commonly used term of alcoholism.
Make no mistake about it; this is an
addiction pure and simple.
Addiction is a condition characterized by repeated and compulsive seeking and use of drugs, alcohol, or other substances despite adverse social, mental, and physical consequences.
Alcohol is a very common substance of abuse, accompanying the main drug of addiction, in the case of multiple substance abuse. Conversely, other drugs are commonly involved with
alcohol addiction as well.
The common denominators to all these
addictions are cravings, guilt, and depression and are the three factors needing addressed in order to obtain a drug free and productive life.
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Three of the
drug effects in any type of
addiction that must be fully resolved for any chance of lasting recovery are cravings, guilt, and depression.
Cravings can be mental or physical and are strong, uncontrollable urges to use drugs or alcohol despite the consequences.
Depression is the source of constant and significant amounts of discomfort that prompts continued
drug use in an attempt to alleviate the depression. Guilt is the feelings resulting from dishonest deeds and harm caused to the people closest to and most important to the addict. With unresolved feelings of guilt the addict is very prone and quite likely to continue using drugs or relapse to
drug use in a misguided attempt to escape the feeling of guilt.
In what seems an endless cycles this goes on and on with the
addiction and the cravings, guilt, and depression going in a downward spiral towards death or jail.
Researching and choosing the best drug
rehab is a daunting task at best.
There is long-term, short-term, traditional, non-traditional, inpatient, outpatient, etc... Understanding
rehabilitation as restoring something or someone to a previous condition helps in sorting out the various forms of drug rehab.
Narconon Arrowhead is a long-term, non-traditional drug rehab.
We specialize in creating drug free productive lives, not someone who has simply stopped drug or alcohol use for the moment.
Effective drug
rehab should involve the full and complete handling of the three factors that lay behind continued
drug use and numerous relapses. First are mental and physical cravings for drugs or alcohol. Second and third are guilt and depression resulting from the situations and circumstances of our addiction, as well as various forms of these three that led up to initial drug and alcohol use to begin with. There is more to
drug rehab than simply ceasing drug or alcohol use.
What is drug
abuse and how is it different from drug addiction?
In fact there is a very fine line between these two and the term drug
abuse is in facto drug addition but it seems less devastating to say drug abuse. Both involve the use of drugs to the point of creating adverse affects to ones health, relationships, career, mental outlook, etc.
Addiction usually implies a compulsive uncontrolled used despite these effects being created.
If one is continuing to
abuse drugs despite the adverse consequences then there really is not much of a difference.
It is mostly a matter of which term one chooses to use.
Both will eventually lead to one of three outcomes – Jail, Death, or Sobriety. I suppose if you had to make a distinction you could say
addiction is closer to jail or death.
An inpatient
rehabilitation center, other points being equal, is superior to an outpatient center when it comes to effectively handling substance
abuse and addiction.
Inpatient is where the client resides at the
rehabilitation center as opposed to commuting.
One reason it is more effective is simply being able to remove the individual from the environment where the
addiction was running out of control.
Away from dealers, family and job stresses, and any other triggers.
Another reason is being among like minded peers who are seeking real and workable answers. There are of course differences in willingness and desire to achieve a drug free life. At Narconon Arrowhead, which is an inpatient rehabilitation center, we have seen the benefits of one addict truly caring about and assisting another addict to many times to discount this. It is a major benefit of rehabilitation - The ability to help and be helped in return.
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